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List of works by Jon Fjeldså

A multi-gene phylogeny reveals novel relationships for aberrant genera of Australo-Papuan core Corvoidea and polyphyly of the Pachycephalidae and Psophodidae (Aves: Passeriformes).

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A new Indo-Malayan member of the Stenostiridae (Aves: Passeriformes) revealed by multilocus sequence data: biogeographical implications for a morphologically diverse clade of flycatchers

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A new member of the greater double-collared sunbird complex (Passeriformes: Nectariniidae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa

scientific article (publication date: 12 October 2016)

A nuclear DNA phylogeny and proposed taxonomic revision of African greenbuls (Aves, Passeriformes, Pycnonotidae)

scholarly article by Ulf S. Johansson et al published September 2007 in Zoologica Scripta

A phylogeny for the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and a re-interpretation of an unique nest-building specialization

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A preliminary assessment of congruence between biodiversity patterns in Afrotropical forest birds and forest mammals

A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides).

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

A zoogeographical boundary between the Palaearctic and Sino-Japanese realms documented by consistent north/south phylogeographical divergences in three woodland birds in eastern China

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An unexpectedly long history of sexual selection in birds-of-paradise

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An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

An ‛Aukward' Tale: A Genetic Approach to Discover the Whereabouts of the Last Great Auks

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Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua

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Biogeographical modules and island roles: a comparison of Wallacea and the West Indies

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Biogeography and Biotic Assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid Passerine Birds

scholarly article by Knud Andreas Jønsson et al published 2 November 2017 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Breeding system evolution influenced the geographic expansion and diversification of the core Corvoidea (Aves: Passeriformes).

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Calibrating the genomic clock of modern birds using fossils

scientific article published on 16 September 2024

Circumscription of a monophyletic family for the tapaculos (Aves: Rhinocryptidae): Psiloramphus in and Melanopareia out

Coalescent models reveal the relative roles of ancestral polymorphism, vicariance, and dispersal in shaping phylogeographical structure of an African montane forest robin

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Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

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Comparative phylogeography of two widespread magpies: importance of habitat preference and breeding behavior on genetic structure in China

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Complete mitochondrial genomes of living and extinct pigeons revise the timing of the columbiform radiation

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Complete taxon sampling of the avian genus Pica (magpies) reveals ancient relictual populations and synchronous Late-Pleistocene demographic expansion across the Northern Hemisphere

Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes

scientific article published in April 2024

Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the grassbirds and allies (Locustellidae) reveals extensive non-monophyly of traditional genera, and a proposal for a new classification

scientific article published in 2018

Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy

scholarly article by Alice Cibois published in June 2018

Convergent evolution, habitat shifts and variable diversification rates in the ovenbird-woodcreeper family (Furnariidae)

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Correlations among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa

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Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Description of two new Cisticola species endemic to the marshes of the Kilombero floodplain of southwestern Tanzania

scientific article published on 11 June 2021

Determinants of bird species richness, endemism, and island network roles in Wallacea and the West Indies: is geography sufficient or does current and historical climate matter?

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Diversification across an altitudinal gradient in the Tiny Greenbul (Phyllastrephus debilis) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa

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Diversification and biogeographic patterns in four island radiations of passerine birds

scientific article published in September 2011

Diversification in the Andes: theAtlapetesbrush-finches

scientific article published in 2014

Diversification of African greenbuls in space and time: linking ecological and historical processes

Does the colonization of new biogeographic regions influence the diversification and accumulation of clade richness among the Corvides (Aves: Passeriformes)?

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Dramatic niche shifts and morphological change in two insular bird species

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Dynamic colonization exchanges between continents and islands drive diversification in paradise-flycatchers (Terpsiphone , Monarchidae)

Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the Madagascan vangas

scientific article (publication date: 24 April 2012)

Ecologically flexible endemics dominate Indo-Pacific bird communities

Endemic avifaunal biodiversity and tropical forest loss in Makira, a mountainous Pacific island

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Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation (Aves: Pachycephala).

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

Evolution of the ovenbird-woodcreeper assemblage (Aves: Furnariidae) - major shifts in nest architecture and adaptive radiation

Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: evidence from the Campephagidae and other Crown Corvida (Aves).

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Explosive radiation and spatial expansion across the cold environments of the Old World in an avian family

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Genetic and morphological evidence for two species in the Udzungwa forest partridge Xenoperdix udzungwensis

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Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

Habitat-driven diversification, hybridization and cryptic diversity in the Fork-tailed Drongo (Passeriformes: Dicruridae: Dicrurus adsimilis )

scientific article published in 2018

High proportion of smaller ranged hummingbird species coincides with ecological specialization across the Americas

scientific article published in February 2016

Historical biogeography of an Indo-Pacific passerine bird family (Pachycephalidae): different colonization patterns in the Indonesian and Melanesian archipelagos

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How broad-scale studies of patterns and processes can serve to guide conservation planning in Africa

scientific article published on June 2007

Humboldt's enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Illicit crops and armed conflict as constraints on biodiversity conservation in the Andes region

scientific article published in May 2005

Interpreting the Process behind Endemism in China by Integrating the Phylogeography and Ecological Niche Models of the Stachyridopsis ruficeps

scientific article published on October 2, 2012

Into and out of the tropics: the generation of the latitudinal gradient among New World passerine birds

Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

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Mapping Afrotropical birds: links between atlas studies and conservation priority analyses

scientific article published in September 1997

Molecular evolution in space and through time: mtDNA phylogeography of the Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea/obscura) throughout continental Africa

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Molecular phylogenetics and diversification within one of the most geographically variable bird species complexesPachycephala pectoralis/melanura

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Molecular phylogenetics and species limits in a cryptically coloured radiation of Australo-Papuan passerine birds (Pachycephalidae: Colluricincla).

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Molecular phylogeny of African bush-shrikes and allies: tracing the biogeographic history of an explosive radiation of corvoid birds

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Molecular phylogeny of Carduelinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae) proves polyphyletic origin of the genera Serinus and Carduelis and suggests redefined generic limits

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Molecular phylogeny of Chloropseidae and Irenidae - cryptic species and biogeography

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Molecular phylogeny of the manakins (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae), with a new classification and the description of a new genus

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Molecular systematics and evolution of the Synallaxis ruficapilla complex (Aves: Furnariidae) in the Atlantic Forest

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Multiple waves of colonization by monarch flycatchers (Myiagra, Monarchidae) across the Indo-Pacific and their implications for coexistence and speciation

Negative range size-abundance relationships in Indo-Pacific bird communities

scientific article published in 2015

New brush-finch Atlapetes from Peru

scientific article published in 2008

New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa’s forest avifauna

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Node-based analysis of species distributions

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Opposed latitudinal patterns of network-derived and dietary specialization in avian plant-frugivore interaction systems

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Phenotypic divergence in two sibling species of shorebird: Common Snipe and Wilson’s Snipe (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae)

scientific article published on 03 October 2020

Phylogenetic patterns of extinction risk: the need for critical application of appropriate datasets

scholarly article published 1 September 2013

Phylogenetic relationships of fantails (Aves: Rhipiduridae)

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Phylogenetic relationships of the African bush-shrikes and helmet-shrikes (Passeriformes: Malaconotidae).

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Phylogenetic relationships of typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and test of incongruence based on Bayes factors

scientific article published on 30 July 2004

Phylogenetic relationships of woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptinae) - incongruence between molecular and morphological data

scholarly article by Martin Irestedt et al published May 2004 in Journal of Avian Biology

Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): a review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers

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Phylogeny and biogeography of Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes)

scholarly article by Knud A. Jønsson et al published May 2010 in Ecography

Phylogeny and classification of the New World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes)

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2013)

Phylogeny and historical biogeography of gnateaters (Passeriformes, Conopophagidae) in the South America forests

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Phylogeny of Laniarius: Molecular data reveal L. liberatus synonymous with L. erlangeri and “plumage coloration” as unreliable morphological characters for defining species and species groups

scientific article (publication date: August 2008)

Phylogeny of the ovenbird genus Upucerthia: a case of independent adaptations for terrestrial life

scholarly article by Jon Fjeldså et al published March 2007 in Zoologica Scripta

Phylogeographical history of the Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus , a species widely distributed across Africa

scientific article published in 2020

Polylepis woodland remnants as biodiversity islands in the Bolivian high Andes

Polyphyletic origin of toxic Pitohui birds suggests widespread occurrence of toxicity in corvoid birds

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Public support for conserving bird species runs counter to climate change impacts on their distributions

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Re-evaluation of species limits in the genus Atlapetes based on mtDNA sequence data

scientific article published in 2008

Resolving deep lineage divergences in core corvoid passerine birds supports a proto-Papuan island origin

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Response to Comment on "An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world".

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Response to Comment on "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds".

scientific article published on September 2015

Sapayoa aenigma: a New World representative of 'Old World suboscines'

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2003)

Shaped by uneven Pleistocene climate: mitochondrial phylogeographic pattern and population history of white wagtailMotacilla alba(Aves: Passeriformes)

article by Xinlei Li et al published 14 November 2015 in Journal of Avian Biology

Social selection parapatry in Afrotropical sunbirds

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Specialization in plant-hummingbird networks is associated with species richness, contemporary precipitation and quaternary climate-change velocity

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Supermatrix phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian Meliphagides radiation (Aves: Passeriformes).

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Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida

scientific article published in June 2007

Systematic relationships and biogeography of the tracheophone suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes).

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Systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific ground-doves

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Systematics of the olive thrush Turdus olivaceus species complex with reference to the taxonomic status of the endangered Taita thrush T. helleri

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Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania

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Taxonomic revision of the Square-tailed Drongo species complex (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) with description of a new species from western Africa

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The African warbler genus Hyliota as a lost lineage in the Oscine songbird tree: molecular support for an African origin of the Passerida

scientific article published on 22 September 2005

The Role of Mountain Ranges in the Diversification of Birds

scientific article published in 2012

The forest batis, Batis mixta, is two species: description of a new, narrowly distributed Batis species in the Eastern Arc biodiversity hotspot

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The functional biogeography of species: biogeographical species roles of birds in Wallacea and the West Indies

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The influence of wing morphology upon the dispersal, geographical distributions and diversification of the Corvides (Aves; Passeriformes).

scientific article published in December 2016

The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa

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The potential drivers in forming avian biodiversity hotspots in the East Himalaya Mountains of Southwest China

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The systematics and biogeography of African tailorbirds (Cisticolidae: Artisornis) with comment on the choice of Bayesian branch-length prior when analyzing heterogeneous data

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Tyrant flycatchers coming out in the open: phylogeny and ecological radiation of Tyrannidae (Aves, Passeriformes)

scholarly article by Jan Ohlson et al published May 2008 in Zoologica Scripta

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

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Winter site use by Afro-Palearctic migrants in Ghana: site persistence and densities of Willow Warbler, Pied Flycatcher, Melodious Warbler and Common Redstart

scientific article published on 4 May 2019

Within-host speciation of malaria parasites

scientific article published in 2007