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Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jan 2002
Lovette Irby J, Bermingham Eldredge, Ricklefs Robert E
Abstract excerpt
The Hawaiian honeycreepers are a dramatic example of adaptive radiation but contrast with the four other songbird lineages that successfully colonized the Hawaiian archipelago and failed to undergo similar diversification. To explore the processes that produced the diversity dichotomy in this insular fauna, we compared clade age and morphological diversity between the speciose honeycreepers and the comparatively...
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