ORCID Profile
0000-0003-0243-2379
Current Organisation
University of Kansas
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-03-2006
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE02121
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 04-2019
Abstract: Avian ersification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the ersification of the hyper erse perching birds (passerines) is unclear because family level relationships are unresolved and the timing of splitting events among lineages is uncertain. We analyzed DNA data from 4,060 nuclear loci and 137 passerine families using concatenation and coalescent approaches to infer a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis that clarifies relationships among all passerine families. Then, we calibrated this phylogeny using 13 fossils to examine the effects of different events in Earth history on the timing and rate of passerine ersification. Our analyses reconcile passerine ersification with the fossil and geological records suggest that passerines originated on the Australian landmass ∼47 Ma and show that subsequent dispersal and ersification of passerines was affected by a number of climatological and geological events, such as Oligocene glaciation and inundation of the New Zealand landmass. Although passerine ersification rates fluctuated throughout the Cenozoic, we find no link between the rate of passerine ersification and Cenozoic global temperature, and our analyses show that the increases in passerine ersification rate we observe are disconnected from the colonization of new continents. Taken together, these results suggest more complex mechanisms than temperature change or ecological opportunity have controlled macroscale patterns of passerine speciation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1890/06-1060.1
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 29-12-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-08-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-04-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1111/DDI.12885
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-11-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2020
DOI: 10.1111/ECOG.04960
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-10-2013
DOI: 10.1111/DDI.12136
No related grants have been discovered for A. Townsend Peterson.