Dramatic niche shifts and morphological change in two insular bird species

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Alström, Per ^a,b   Jønsson, Knud A ^c,d,e   Fjeldså, Jon ^c   Ödeen, Anders ^f   Ericson, Per G P ^g   Irestedt, Martin ^g  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive change; Morphological divergence; Niche shifts; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958087544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140364     Document Type: Article

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