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Museum Collections and Migration Patterns

18 Monday Apr 2016

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Ethan has a new publication in PeerJ on using data from museum collections to assess migration patterns in Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris).

Linck E, Bridge ES, Duckles JM, Navarro-Sigüenza AG, Rohwer S. (2016) Assessing migration patterns in Passerina ciris using the world’s bird collections as an aggregated resource. PeerJ 4:e1871

Check it out the full publication at the publishers  website!

Publications Update

09 Monday Nov 2015

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2015

Linck, E., Schaack, S., Dumbacher, J.P. Genetic differentiation within a widespread “supertramp” taxon: Molecular phylogenetics of the Louisiade White-eye (Zosterops griseotinctus) (2016) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 94, art. no. 5280, pp. 113-121.

Slager, D.L., Rodewald, P.G., Heglund, P.J. Experimental effects of habitat type on the movement ecology and stopover duration of spring migrant Northern Waterthrushes (Parkesia noveboracensis) (2015) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 69 (11), pp. 1809-1819.

Slager, D.L., Rodewald, P.G. Disjunct nocturnal roosting by a yellow-rumped warbler (setophaga coronata) during migratory stopover (2015) Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 127 (1), pp. 109-114.

Barker, K., Burns, K.J., Klicka, J., Lanyon, S.M., Lovette, I.J. New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies (2015) Auk, 132 (2), pp. 333-348.

2014

Manthey, J.D., Klicka, J., Spellman, G.M. Effects of climate change on the evolution of Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) lineages (2014) Auk, 131 (4), pp. 559-570.

Bryson Jr, R.W., Chaves, J., Smith, B.T., Miller, M.J., Winker, K., Pérez-Emán, J.L., Klicka, J. Diversification across the New World within the ‘blue’ cardinalids (Aves: Cardinalidae) (2014) Journal of Biogeography, 41 (3), pp. 587-599.

Powell, A.F.L.A., Barker, F.K., Lanyon, S.M., Burns, K.J., Klicka, J., Lovette, I.J. A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae) (2014) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 71 (1), pp. 94-112.

Klicka, J., Keith Barker, F., Burns, K.J., Lanyon, S.M., Lovette, I.J., Chaves, J.A., Bryson Jr., R.W. A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Aves: Passerellidae) relationships (2014) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 77 (1), pp. 177-182.

Slager, D.L., Klicka, J. Polyphyly of Hylophilus and a new genus for the Tawny-crowned Greenlet (Aves: Passeriformes: Vireonidae) (2014) Zootaxa, 3884 (2), pp. 194-196.

Slager, D.L., Battey, C.J., Bryson, R.W., Voelker, G., Klicka, J. A multilocus phylogeny of a major New World avian radiation: The Vireonidae (2014) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 80 (1), pp. 95-104.

new publications update

31 Friday Jan 2014

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2014

  • Powell, A. F. L. A., F. K. Barker, S. M. Lanyon, K. J. Burns, J. Klicka, and I. J. Lovette. 2014. A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71:  94–112.

2013

  • Bryson, R. W., J. Chaves, B. T. Smith, M. Miller, K. Winker,  J. L. Pérez-Emán, and J. Klicka. 2013. Diversification across the New World within the ‘blue’ cardinalids (Aves: Cardinalidae). Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.12218
  • Chaves, J. A., J. R. Hidalgo, and J. Klicka. 2013. Biogeography and evolutionary history of the Neotropical genus Saltator (Aves: Thraupini). Journal of Biogeography 40: 2180–2190.
  • Pulgarín-Ra, P. C., B. T. Smith, R. W. Bryson, and J. Klicka. 2013. Multilocus phylogeny and biogeography of the New World Pheucticus grosbeaks (Aves: Cardinalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 1222–1227.
  • Voelker, G., R. C. K. Bowie and J. Klicka. 2013. Gene trees, species trees and Earth history combine to shed light on the evolution of migration in a model avian system. Molecular Ecology 22: 3333-3344.
  • Barker, F. K., K. J. Burns, J. Klicka, S. M. Lanyon, and I. J. Lovette. 2013. Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds. Systematic Biology 62: 298-320.
  • Smith, B. T., and J. Klicka. 2013. Examining the role of effective population size on mitochondrial and multilocus divergence time discordance in a songbird. PLoS ONE 8: ee55161.

Two new publications

07 Friday Dec 2012

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Two of our papers were recently published:

Manthey, J. D., J. Klicka, and G. M. Spellman. 2012. Is gene flow promoting the reversal of Pleistocene divergence in the Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli)? PLoS ONE 7: e49218.[link to paper]

Smith, B. T., R. W. Bryson, V. Chua, L. Africa,  and J. Klicka. 2012. Speciational history of North American Haemorhous finches (Aves: Fringillidae) inferred from multilocus data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. [link to paper]

New paper gets Faculty of 1000 recommendation

17 Wednesday Oct 2012

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Our recent paper published in Ecology Letters was recommended by the Faculty of 1000 as an important paper in ecology.  In our study, we compared latitudinal range patterns between families of New World vertebrates that had ancestral geographic origins in North and South America.  We found that families that originated in South America exhibited strong niche conservatism and were largely restricted to the Neotropical region.  In contrast, families that originated in North America were more widely distributed across the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.  We suggest that this asymmetry in niche conservatism has influenced biodiversity patterns in the New World, and is one of the underlying causes of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient.

Smith BT, Bryson RW, Houston D, Klicka J. 2012. An asymmetry in niche conservatism contributes to the latitudinal species diversity gradient in New World vertebrates. Ecology Letters 15: 1318-1325.