Statistical approach for inferring ecology of Mesozoic birds
Statistical approach for inferring ecology of Mesozoic birds
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DOI：
10.1080/14772019.2010.525536
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Chiappe, Luis M.
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作者：
Bell, Alyssa;Chiappe, Luis M.
识别生物所扮演的生态角色的能力是现代生态学的基础，也是古生物学研究的重要目标。形态计量学有可能成为一个统计上强大的手段，进一步实现这一目标，确定一组生物体内的生态形态学趋势。现代和化石鸟类的戏剧性的形态和生态多样性，使它们成为生态形态学研究的理想选择，而已知的中生代鸟类多样性的大量增加，为应用现代生态形态学提高我们对中生代鸟类多样性的理解提供了许多可能性。本研究提出了一个大型的现代鸟类形态数据库，使用多元统计方法进行分析，以确定生态和形态之间的相关性。这些关系也在一些中生代鸟类进行了研究，以调查早期鸟类作为一个整体的生态多样性和特定的生态作用，个别类群可能发挥。
The ability to identify the ecological role an organism plays is fundamental to modern ecology and is an important goal of palaeontological studies. Morphometrics has the potential to be a statistically robust means of furthering this goal, identifying ecomorphological trends within a group of organisms. The dramatic morphological and ecological diversity of modern and fossil birds makes them ideal for ecomorphological studies, and the vast increase in known Mesozoic avian diversity opens numerous possibilities for applying modern ecomorphology to enhance our understanding of avian diversification in the Mesozoic. This study presents a large morphometric database of modern birds analysed using a multivariate statistical approach, in order to identify correlations between ecology and morphology. These relationships were also examined in a number of Mesozoic birds in order to investigate both the ecological diversification of early birds as a whole and the specific ecological roles individual taxa may have played.