Partitioning phylogenetic and adaptive components of the geographical body-size pattern of New World birds

2007 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 070817112457004-??? ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizabeth Ramirez ◽  
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho ◽  
Bradford A. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New World ◽  
New World Birds

scholarly journals Exquisitely Preserved Fossil Snakes of Messel: Insight into the Evolution, Biogeography, Habitat Preferences and Sensory Ecology of Early Boas

Diversity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Scanferla ◽  
Krister T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New World ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Sensory Ecology ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Upper Jaw ◽  
Spectrum Evaluation ◽  
Insight Into

Our knowledge of early evolution of snakes is improving, but all that we can infer about the evolution of modern clades of snakes such as boas (Booidea) is still based on isolated bones. Here, we resolve the phylogenetic relationships of Eoconstrictor fischeri comb. nov. and other booids from the early-middle Eocene of Messel (Germany), the best-known fossil snake assemblage yet discovered. Our combined analyses demonstrate an affinity of Eoconstrictor with Neotropical boas, thus entailing a South America-to-Europe dispersal event. Other booid species from Messel are related to different New World clades, reinforcing the cosmopolitan nature of the Messel booid fauna. Our analyses indicate that Eoconstrictor was a terrestrial, medium- to large-bodied snake that bore labial pit organs in the upper jaw, the earliest evidence that the visual system in snakes incorporated the infrared spectrum. Evaluation of the known palaeobiology of Eoconstrictor provides no evidence that pit organs played a role in the predator–prey relations of this stem boid. At the same time, the morphological diversity of Messel booids reflects the occupation of several terrestrial macrohabitats, and even in the earliest booid community the relation between pit organs and body size is similar to that seen in booids today.

The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s

Ethnohistory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-501
Author(s):  
Martha Few
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
New World ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Transatlantic Trade ◽  
New World Birds

Abstract This essay focuses on New World birds caught up in the eighteenth-century transatlantic trade with other living wild creatures, destined for imperial metropoles. Manuscript sources describing this trade, written by political officials, ships’ captains, doctors, naturalists, animal caretakers, and inspectors who cataloged their arrival to Spanish ports, interacted with the animals, tried to keep them alive aboard the ship, and determined their ability to withstand further transport to their final destinations in Madrid and other cities in Spain. In the process, animals caged aboard ship for several weeks or more developed relationships with one another and with their human caretakers. Their lived experiences show the multiple and complicated ways in which individual captured birds and other creatures helped shape those shipboard environments, disrupting systemic human attempts to construct them as colonial animals who functioned solely as scientific or material objects in empire making.

scholarly journals Body Size, Extinction Risk and Knowledge Bias in New World Snakes

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e113429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Vilela ◽  
Fabricio Villalobos ◽  
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ◽  
Levi Carina Terribile
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New World ◽  
Extinction Risk ◽  
Knowledge Bias

TESTING FOR LATITUDINAL BIAS IN DIVERSIFICATION RATES: AN EXAMPLE USING NEW WORLD BIRDS

Ecology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (9) ◽  
pp. 2278-2287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Cardillo ◽  
C. David L. Orme ◽  
Ian P. F. Owens
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Diversification Rates ◽  
New World Birds

Brontostoma lilloi Carpintero, 1980, a junior synonym of B. rubrovenosum (Stål, 1860) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4614 (1) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
HÉLCIO R. GIL-SANTANA ◽  
DIEGO L. CARPINTERO
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
New World ◽  
Junior Synonym

There are 22 genera and more than 100 described species of Ectrichodiinae in the New World (Gil-Santana et al. 2015). Intraspecific variation in coloration and body size have been recorded in several species of the subfamily. These characteristics can occur in the same population or can suggest geographic variation of the same species (Wygodzinsky 1951, Dougherty 1995, Gil-Santana & Baena 2009, Gil-Santana et al. 2013). Sexual dimorphism is also common: females are almost always more or less larger than males, frequently have thicker fore femora and smaller eyes and ocelli (Dougherty 1995). 

scholarly journals Post-Eocene climate change, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient of New World birds

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 770-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradford A. Hawkins ◽  
Jose Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho ◽  
Carlos A. Jaramillo ◽  
Stephen A. Soeller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New World ◽  
Niche Conservatism ◽  
Latitudinal Diversity Gradient ◽  
Diversity Gradient ◽  
New World Birds

scholarly journals Environmental drivers of beta-diversity patterns in New-World birds and mammals

Ecography ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano S. Melo ◽  
Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel ◽  
José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho
Keyword(s):  
Beta Diversity ◽  
New World ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Diversity Patterns ◽  
New World Birds
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document