Quantifying the avian pelvis: Statistical correlations of lifestyle to pelvic structure among non-passeriform birds
To separate functional from phylogenetic pelvic differences in Aves, seventy-seven birds were measured and statistically analyzed to define the characters that unite them into function groups, and to identify the characters that separate the function groups from each other. Four Major Function Group...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1998
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9841895 |