Publications

Journal articles

Lovette, I. J. In press. Molecular Phylogeny and Plumage Signal Evolution in a Trans Andean and Circum Amazonian Avian Species Complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . Read Abstract

Sweeny, R. J., Lovette, I. J., and Harvey, E. L. In press. Evolutionary variation in the feather waxes of passerine birds. Auk . Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J., S. M. Clegg, and T. B. Smith. 2003. Limited utility of mtDNA markers for determining connectivity among breeding and overwintering locations in three Neotropical migrant birds. Conservation Biology 18: 156-166. Read Abstract

Gonzalez, M. A., J. R. Eberhard, I. J. Lovette, S. L. Olson, and E. Bermingham. 2003. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the Bay Wren complex. Condor 105: 228-238. Read Abstract

Sehgal, R. N. M, and I. J. Lovette. 2003. Molecular evolution of three avian neurotrophin genes: Implications for proregion functional constraints. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57: 335-342. Read Abstract

Kimura, M., S. M. Clegg, I. J. Lovette, K. R. Holder, D. J. Girman, B. Mila, P. Wade, and T. B. Smith. 2002. Phylogeographical approaches to assessing demographic connectivity between breeding and overwintering regions in a Nearctic-Neotropical warbler (Wilsonia pusilla). Molecular Ecology 9:1605-1616. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J. and E. Bermingham. 2002. What is a wood-warbler? A molecular characterization of a monophyletic Parulidae. Auk 119:695-714. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J. and E. Bermingham. 2001. A mitochondrial sequence-based phylogenetic analysis of Parula wood-warblers (Aves: Parulidae). Auk 118:211-215.

Lovette, I. J., E. Bermingham, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2001. Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 269:37-42. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J. and E. Bermingham. 2000. C-mos variation in songbirds: Molecular evolution, phylogenetic implications, and comparisons with mitochondrial differentiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17:1569-1577. Read Abstract

Price, T., I. J. Lovette, E. Bermingham, L. Gibbs, and A. Richman. 2000. The imprint of history on two warbler adaptive radiations. American Naturalist 156:354-367. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J. and E. Bermingham. 1999. Explosive speciation in the New World Dendroica warblers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 266:1629-1636. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J., E. Bermingham, and R. E. Ricklefs. 1999. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and the conservation of endangered Lesser Antillean Icterus Orioles. Conservation Biology 13:1088-1096. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J., E. Bermingham, S. Rohwer, and C. Wood. 1999. Mitochondrial RFLP and sequence variation among closely related avian species and the genetic characterization of hybrid Dendroica warblers. Molecular Ecology 8:1431-1441. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J., G. Seutin, R. E. Ricklefs, and E. Bermingham. 1999. The assembly of an island fauna by natural invasion: Sources and temporal patterns in the avian colonization of Barbados. Biological Invasions 1:33-41. Read Abstract

Ricklefs, R. E. and I. J. Lovette. 1999. The roles of island area per se and habitat diversity in the species-area relationships of four Lesser Antillean faunal groups. Journal of Animal Ecology 68:1142-1160. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J., E. Bermingham, G. Seutin, and R. E. Ricklefs. 1998. Range disjunction and evolutionary differentiation in West Indian Dendroica warblers. Auk 115:890-903. Read Abstract

Lovette, I. J. and R. T. Holmes. 1995. Foraging behavior of American Redstarts in breeding and wintering habitats: Implications for relative food availability. Condor 97:782-791. Read Abstract

Technical articles

Lovette, Irby J. 2003. [Perspectives in Ornithology] Mitochondrial dating and mixed support for the "2% Rule" in birds. Auk 121: 1-6.

Lovette, Irby J. 2002. [book review] Birds of the Cayman Islands. Auk 119: 1213-1214.

Smith, T. B., P. P. Marra, M. S. Webster, I. J. Lovette, H. L. Gibbs, R. T. Holmes, K. A. Hobson, and S. Rohwer. 2003. A call for feather sampling. Auk 120: 218-221.

Popular Publications

Lovette, I. J. 2003. The chat mystery solved. BirdScope 17(1): 4.

Lovette, I. J. In press. A tree for the birds. BirdScope 18(1).