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      Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities 

      Triantis, Kostas A.; Rigal, Francois; Whittaker, Robert J.; Hume, Julian P.; Sheard, Catherine; Poursanidis, Dimitrios; Rolland, Jonathan; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Matthews, Thomas J.; Thebaud, Christophe; Tobias, Joseph A. (Wiley, 2022-06-10)
      Aim Whether entire communities of organisms converge towards predictable structural properties in similar environmental conditions remains controversial. We tested for community convergence in birds by comparing the ...
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      Range-wide spatial mapping reveals convergent character displacement of bird song 

      Kirschel, Alexander N. G.; Seddon, Nathalie; Tobias, Joseph A. (2019)
      A long-held view in evolutionary biology is that character displacement generates divergent phenotypes in closely related coexisting species to avoid the costs of hybridization or ecological competition, whereas an alternative ...