Ecological limits on diversification of the Himalayan core Corvoidea

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2599-2613

  Kennedy, Jonathan D ^a   Weir, Jason T ^b   Hooper, Daniel M ^c   Tietze, D Thomas ^c   Martens, Jochen ^d   Price, Trevor D ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Corvoidea; Diversity dependence; Ecological controls; Himalayas; Passerida; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMMIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

HIMALAYAS;

AVES; CORVOIDEA; PASSERI; PASSERIDA;

EID: 85027940630     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01618.x     Document Type: Article

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