The drivers of tropical speciation

Brian Tilston Smith, John E. McCormack, Andrés M. Cuervo, Michael. J. Hickerson, Alexandre Aleixo, Carlos Daniel Cadena, Jorge Pérez-Emán, Curtis W. Burney, Xiaoou Xie, Michael G. Harvey, Brant C. Faircloth, Travis C. Glenn, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Jesse Prejean, Samantha Fields and Robb T. Brumfield ()
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Brian Tilston Smith: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
John E. McCormack: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Andrés M. Cuervo: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Michael. J. Hickerson: City College of New York
Alexandre Aleixo: Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66040-170, Belém, Brazil
Carlos Daniel Cadena: Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva de Vertebrados, Universidad de los Andes
Jorge Pérez-Emán: Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Av. Los Ilustres, Los Chaguaramos, Apartado Postal 47058, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela
Curtis W. Burney: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Xiaoou Xie: City College of New York
Michael G. Harvey: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Brant C. Faircloth: University of California
Travis C. Glenn: University of Georgia
Elizabeth P. Derryberry: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Jesse Prejean: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Samantha Fields: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University
Robb T. Brumfield: Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University

Nature, 2014, vol. 515, issue 7527, 406-409

Abstract: Diversification of Neotropical birds is not directly linked to the Andean uplift, the major landscape change of the Neogene period; instead, most diversification is post-Neogene and species diversity is dependent on how long lineages have persisted in the landscape and how easily they disperse.

Date: 2014
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