Extant-only comparative methods fail to recover the disparity preserved in the bird fossil record

Preservation is predictable: quantifying the effect of taphonomic biases on ecological disparity in birds

(2015) Jonathan S. Mitchell   PALEOBIOLOGY

Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting by birds

(2014) G. Mayr et al.   Biology Letters

Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diversity versus disparity and the role of ecological opportunity in a continental bird radiation

(2014) Manuel Schweizer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The fossil record of bird behaviour

(2014) D. Naish   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Low ecological disparity in Early Cretaceous birds

(2014) J. S. Mitchell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

CATS regression - a model-based approach to studying trait-based community assembly

(2014) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A new species of Threskiornithidae-like bird (Aves, Ciconiiformes) from the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming

(2013) Nathan D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan-Apodiformes)

(2013) D. T. Ksepka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rates of dinosaur limb evolution provide evidence for exceptional radiation in Mesozoic birds

(2013) R. B. J. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Robust Regression and Posterior Predictive Simulation Increase Power to Detect Early Bursts of Trait Evolution

(2013) Graham J. Slater et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

(2013) Graham J. Slater   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Strong mitochondrial DNA support for a Cretaceous origin of modern avian lineages

(2012) Joseph W Brown et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

IS YOUR PHYLOGENY INFORMATIVE? MEASURING THE POWER OF COMPARATIVE METHODS

(2012) Carl Boettiger et al.   EVOLUTION

When should we expect early bursts of trait evolution in comparative data? Predictions from an evolutionary food web model

(2012) T. Ingram et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Quantifying historical trends in the completeness of the fossil record and the contributing factors: an example using Aves

(2012) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Evolution of Modern Birds Revealed by Mitogenomics: Timing the Radiation and Origin of Major Orders

(2011) M. A. Pacheco et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Determinants of species abundance in the Quaternary vertebrate fossil record

(2011) Samuel T. Turvey et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores (“Caprimulgiformes” + Apodiformes)

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   PLoS One

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution

(2010) L. E. Zanno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Passerine diversity in the late Oligocene of Germany: earliest evidence for the sympatric coexistence of Suboscines and Oscines

(2008) ALBRECHT MANEGOLD   IBIS

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE

The Role of Geography and Ecological Opportunity in the Diversification of Day Geckos (Phelsuma)

(2008) Luke J. Harmon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY