Dynamic rivers contributed to Amazon's rich bird diversity ScienceAdvances
A shot from a recent scientific expedition to the Amazon by the study's lead author Lukas Musher. Credit: Lukas Musher
than the next seven largest river basins combined. Researchers have long wondered and hotly debate how the Amazon's rich biodiversity arose and accumulated.
"Even though birds can fly, our study confirmed that current rivers across the Southern Amazon rainforest, even relatively small ones, are highly effective at isolating populations of these six species, which leads to genomic divergence and ultimately speciation," said the study's senior author Joel Cracraft, Lamont Curator and curator-in-charge in the Museum's Department of Ornithology.
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