Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

The timing of origin of modern North American bird species in relation to Pleistocene
glaciations has long been the topic of significant discussion and disagreement. Recently …

Coevolutionary dynamics allow revealing ongoing microevolutionary processes and
adaptations. Interactions between obligate avian brood parasites and their hosts are …

Latitudinal variation among species in life‐history traits is often suggested to contribute to
high tropical species richness. However, traditional methods of analysing such variation …

This paper summarizes and discusses the many new insights into passerine evolution
gained from an increased general interest in avian evolution among biologists, and …

Crotalus viridis, the western rattlesnake, ranges throughout western North America and has
been divided into at least eight subspecies. However, the validity of and relationships …

Molecular systematic studies generally assume that gene trees are reasonable estimates of
species trees. We tested the validity of this assumption in the pigeons and doves (Aves …

To understand interspecific patterns in the strength of sexual selection, variation in the costs
and benefits of exercising mate choice needs to be evaluated. One manifestation of sexual …

Male androgen responses to social challenges have been predicted to vary with mating
system, male–male aggressiveness, and the degree of paternal investment in birds …