| [temporal stability in song dialects of black redstarts (phoenicurus ochruros rufiventris) in menyuan, qinghai province]. | bird song dialects provide a useful model for the study of cultural evolution and its interactions with genetic evolution. by comparing song dialects over an 8-year span in the black redstarts (phoenicurus ochruros rufiventris) of haibei station (37(0)29'n, 101(0)28'e, 3, 200 m a.s.l.) in menyuan county, qinghai province,this study examined the temporal stability of the birds'song dialects. songs of black redstarts were recorded from mid-april to late may in 2001 by uher-cr 210 tape recorder wit ... | 2010 | 21174351 |
| comparative phylogeography of five avian species: implications for pleistocene evolutionary history in the qinghai-tibetan plateau. | pleistocene climate fluctuations have shaped the patterns of genetic diversity observed in extant species. in contrast to europe and north america where the effects of recent glacial cycles on genetic diversity have been well studied, the genetic legacy of the pleistocene for the qinghai-tibetan (tibetan) plateau, a region where glaciation was not synchronous with the north hemisphere ice sheet maxima, remains poorly understood. here, we compared the phylogeographical patterns of five avian spec ... | 2010 | 20002586 |