Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

Trevor D. Price (), Daniel M. Hooper, Caitlyn D. Buchanan, Ulf S. Johansson, D. Thomas Tietze, Per Alström, Urban Olsson, Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, Farah Ishtiaq, Sandeep K. Gupta, Jochen Martens, Bettina Harr, Pratap Singh and Dhananjai Mohan
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Trevor D. Price: University of Chicago
Daniel M. Hooper: University of Chicago
Caitlyn D. Buchanan: University of Chicago
Ulf S. Johansson: University of Chicago
D. Thomas Tietze: University of Chicago
Per Alström: Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Urban Olsson: Systematics and Biodiversity, University of Gothenburg
Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar: Wildlife Institute of India, PO Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India
Farah Ishtiaq: Wildlife Institute of India, PO Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India
Sandeep K. Gupta: Wildlife Institute of India, PO Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India
Jochen Martens: Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University
Bettina Harr: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August Thienemannstrasse 2, 24306 Plön, Germany
Pratap Singh: Wildlife Institute of India, PO Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India
Dhananjai Mohan: Wildlife Institute of India, PO Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India

Nature, 2014, vol. 509, issue 7499, 222-225

Abstract: In Himalayan songbirds, the speciation rate is ultimately set by ecological competition, rather than by the rate of acquisition of reproductive isolation.

Date: 2014
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