Testing Models of Biological Diversification: Morphological Evolution and Cladogenesis in the Neotropical Furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes)
In this dissertation I explored the processes that generated high species diversity in a continental adaptive radiation of passerine birds: the family Furnariidae. Although there is a vast amount of information on the microevolutionary mechanisms that generate speciation and adaptation, much less is...
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LSU
2010
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04152010-114242/ |