scholarly journals A Consensus Taxonomy For The Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Author(s):  
H. Douglas Pratt
2009 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. Eggert ◽  
J. S. Beadell ◽  
A. McClung ◽  
C. E. McIntosh ◽  
R. C. Fleischer

Nature ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 167 (4252) ◽  
pp. 677-678

2010 ◽  
Vol 365 (1543) ◽  
pp. 1139-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Ricklefs

The build-up of species locally within a region by allopatric speciation depends on geographically separated (allopatric) sister populations becoming reproductively incompatible followed by secondary sympatry. Among birds, this has happened frequently in remote archipelagos, spectacular cases including the Darwin's finches (Geospizinae) and Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidinae), but similar examples are lacking in archipelagos nearer to continental landmasses. Of the required steps in the speciation cycle, achievement of secondary sympatry appears to be limiting in near archipelagos and, by extension, in continental regions. Here, I suggest that secondary sympatry might be prevented by apparent competition mediated through pathogens that are locally coevolved with one population of host and are pathogenic in sister populations. The absence of numerous pathogens in remote archipelagos might, therefore, allow sister populations to achieve secondary sympatry more readily and thereby accelerate diversification. By similar reasoning, species should accumulate relatively slowly within continental regions. In this essay, I explore the assumptions and some implications of this model for species diversification.


Bird-Banding ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
M. W. de Laubenfels ◽  
Dean Amadon

2017 ◽  
Vol 372 (1713) ◽  
pp. 20150481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayoshi Tokita ◽  
Wataru Yano ◽  
Helen F. James ◽  
Arhat Abzhanov

Adaptive radiation is the rapid evolution of morphologically and ecologically diverse species from a single ancestor. The two classic examples of adaptive radiation are Darwin's finches and the Hawaiian honeycreepers, which evolved remarkable levels of adaptive cranial morphological variation. To gain new insights into the nature of their diversification, we performed comparative three-dimensional geometric morphometric analyses based on X-ray microcomputed tomography (µCT) scanning of dried cranial skeletons. We show that cranial shapes in both Hawaiian honeycreepers and Coerebinae (Darwin's finches and their close relatives) are much more diverse than in their respective outgroups, but Hawaiian honeycreepers as a group display the highest diversity and disparity of all other bird groups studied. We also report a significant contribution of allometry to skull shape variation, and distinct patterns of evolutionary change in skull morphology in the two lineages of songbirds that underwent adaptive radiation on oceanic islands. These findings help to better understand the nature of adaptive radiations in general and provide a foundation for future investigations on the developmental and molecular mechanisms underlying diversification of these morphologically distinguished groups of birds. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Evo-devo in the genomics era, and the origins of morphological diversity’.


The Condor ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thane K. Pratt ◽  
John C. Simon ◽  
Brian P. Farm ◽  
Kim E. Berlin ◽  
James R. Kowalsky

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan I. Jarvi ◽  
Susan I. Jarvi ◽  
Paul C. Banko ◽  
Paul C. Banko

The application of molecular techniques to conservation genetics issues can provide important guidance criteria for management of endangered species. The results from this study establish that PCR-based approaches for sex determination developed in other bird species (Griffiths and Tiwari 1995; Griffiths et al. 1996, 1998; Ellegren 1996) can be applied with a high degree of confidence to at least four species of Hawaiian honeycreepers. This provides a rapid, reliable method with which population managers can optimize sex ratios within populations of endangered species that are subject to artificial manipulation through captive breeding programmes or geographic translocation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 190 (4) ◽  
pp. E106-E111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Ricklefs

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. e49594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. F. Hobbelen ◽  
Michael D. Samuel ◽  
Dennis A. LaPointe ◽  
Carter T. Atkinson

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