Abstract Since 2005, the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) has published
updated checklists of Brazilian birds almost every year. Herein, we present a completely …

The use of DNA sequence data in systematic studies has brought about a revolution in our
understanding of avian relationships and when combined with digitized distributional data …

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 …

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of
Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of …

The phylogeny of the thrushes (Aves: Turdus) has been difficult to reconstruct due to short
internal branches and lack of node support for certain parts of the tree. Reconstructing the …

Causes of interspecific variation in growth rates within and among geographic regions
remain poorly understood. Passerine birds represent an intriguing case because differing …

Cyhalofop-butyl is a selective herbicide widely employed in paddy field, which can transfer
into aquatic environments. However, details of the environmental risk and aquatic toxicity of …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Rationale In the last two taxonomic updates to our Checklist (Praveen et al. 2018; Praveen
et al. 2019b), we followed the limited consensusmodel, based upon the data in HBW/BLI …

Background The rate of extrapair paternity is a commonly used index for the risk of sperm
competition in birds, but paternity data exist for only a few percent of the approximately …