Disentangling ancient interactions: a new extinct passerine provides insights on character displacement among extinct and extant island finches

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Rando, J. Carlos, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Illera, Juan Carlos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2010
• Subjects: Finch; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/48470; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012956

11 páginas, 5 figuras, 1 tabla. [Background]Evolutionary studies of insular biotas are based mainly on extant taxa, although such biotas represent artificial subsets of original faunas because of human-caused extinctions of indigenous species augmented by introduced exotic taxa. This makes it diffic...