In this review I summarize the history of the subspecies concept and the major debates and
issues surrounding its use, with an emphasis on ornithology, in which the concept …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

An approach applied previously to avian biotas is extended in this paper to other vertebrate
classes to evaluate Pleistocene phylogeographic effects and to estimate temporal spans of …

Pleistocene biogeographic events have traditionally been ascribed a major role in
promoting speciations and in sculpting the present–day diversity and distributions of …

Shorebirds are the most visible inhabitants of coastal wetlands worldwide. Many undertake
spectacularly long flights between their wintering and breeding grounds, embodying the …

The entire mitochondrial DNA control region (mtDNA D-loop) was sequenced in the seven
extant species of Alectoris partridges. The D-loop length is very conserved (1155±2 …

Perspectives in Ornithology 2[Auk, Vol. 121 to date much earlier nodes (eg among families
and orders) in the avian tree (eg van Tuinen and Hedges 2001, Feduccia 2003). Here I …

The structural and evolutionary characteristics of the mitochondrial control region were
studied by using control region sequences of 68 avian species. The distribution of the …

Under what circumstances speciation in sexually reproducing animals can occur without
geographical disjunction is still controversial. According to the ring–species model, a …

Abstract Knowledge of the evolutionary processes that shaped a biota is important for both
academic and conservation purposes. The objective of the present study is to analyse the …