Authors
Gary Voelker, Robert K Outlaw, Rauri CK Bowie
Publication date
2010/1
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume
19
Issue
1
Pages
111-121
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
Aim Montane tropics are areas of high endemism, and mechanisms driving this endemism have been receiving increasing attention at a global scale. A general trend is that climatic factors do not explain the species richness of species with small to medium‐sized geographic ranges, suggesting that geological and evolutionary processes must be considered. On the African continent, several hypotheses including both refugial and geographic uplift models have been advanced to explain avian speciation and diversity in the lowland forest and montane regions of central and eastern Africa; montane regions in particular are recognized as hotspots of vertebrate endemism. Here, we examine the possible role of these models in driving speciation in a clade of African forest robins.
Location Africa.
Methods We constructed the first robustly supported molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of forest robins. On this …
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G Voelker, RK Outlaw, RCK Bowie - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2010