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Agricultural management affects evolutionary processes in a migratory songbird.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2008
Perlut Noah G, Freeman-Gallant Corey R, Strong Allan M, Donovan Therese M, Kilpatrick C William, Zalik Nathan J
Abstract excerpt
Hay harvests have detrimental ecological effects on breeding songbirds, as harvesting results in nest failure. Importantly, whether harvesting also affects evolutionary processes is not known. We explored how hay harvest affected social and genetic mating patterns, and thus, the overall opportunity for sexual selection and evolutionary processes for a ground-nesting songbird, the Savannah sparrow (Passerculus...
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