DOES NICHE DIVERGENCE ACCOMPANY ALLOPATRIC DIVERGENCE IN APHELOCOMA JAYS AS PREDICTED UNDER ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION?: INSIGHTS FROM TESTS WITH NICHE MODELS

• Published in: Evolution Vol. 64; no. 5; pp. 1231 - 1244
• Main Authors: McCormack, John E., Zellmer, Amanda J., Knowles, L. Lacey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.05.2010; Wiley Periodicals Inc; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Animals; Aphelocoma; Biological taxonomies; Birds; Conservatism; Ecological genetics; Ecological modeling; Ecological niches; Ecology; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Models, Biological; niche conservatism; niche modeling; Niches; Ornithology; Passeriformes - classification; Passeriformes - genetics; Population ecology; Speciation; Species; Vegetation structure

The role of ecology in the origin of species has been the subject of long-standing interest to evolutionary biologists. New sources of spatially explicit ecological data allow for large-scale tests of whether speciation is associated with niche divergence or whether closely related species tend to b...