Contact and hybrid zone hotspots and evolution of birds in the Middle East

作     者：Mansour Aliabadian Mohammad Kaboli Bahram Kiabi Vincent Nijman 

作者机构：Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem DynamicsZoological MuseumUniversity of Amsterdam1090 GT AmsterdamThe NetherlandsDepartment of BiologyFaculty of SciencesFeredowsi UniversityMashadIran Department of Fishery and EnvironmentFaculty of Natural ResourcesTehran UniversityIran Department of BiologyFaculty of SciencesUniversity of Shahid BeheshtiTehranIran Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem DynamicsZoological MuseumUniversity of Amsterdam1090 GT AmsterdamThe Netherlands 

出 版 物：《Progress in Natural Science:Materials International》 (自然科学进展·国际材料(英文))

年 卷 期：2007年第17卷第9期

页      面：1114-1118页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 071002[理学-动物学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：Supported by the Iranian Ministry of Science Technology and the PA Hens Memorial Fund 

主　　题：contact zone hybridisation Middle East parapatry species-pairs zoogeography 

摘      要：The Middle East is an important contact zone for a considerable number of bird taxa from the western and eastern Palearctic and from the great Saharo-Sindian desert *** WORLDMAP software,we analyzed the geographical distribution of secondary contact zones for parapatric species pairs of birds in the Middle *** identified 56 species(29 species pairs)that make contact in the Middle *** species pairs belong to three orders,***,Piciformes,and *** half(46%)of these species pairs hybridize in their contact *** contact zones occur over a large part of northern Middle East,spatially they were not evenly *** zone richness was highest in the mountain ranges south of the Caspian Sea and the *** hottest hotspots,where up to nine bird species pairs occur sympatrically,are situated in north-eastern Iran and *** discuss the relevance of these hotspots for improving our understanding of the biogeography and evolution of the avifauna in the Middle East.