A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds

Abstract Background Earth’s lower latitudes boast the majority of extant avian species-level and higher-order diversity, with many deeply diverging clades restricted to vestiges of Gondwana. However, palaeontological analyses reveal that many avian crown clades with restricted extant distributions h...

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Main Authors: Daniel J. Field, Allison Y. Hsiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1212-3