Benjamin M. Winger

TL;DR: The synthesis, which revolves around the insight that migratory organisms travel long distances simply to stay in the same place, provides a necessary evolutionary context for understanding historical biogeographic patterns in migratory lineages as well as the ecological dynamics of migratory connectivity between breeding and non‐breeding locations.

TL;DR: It is suggested that warming-induced body size reduction is a general response to climate change, and wing length represents a compensatory adaptation to maintain migration as reductions in body size have increased the metabolic cost of flight.

TL;DR: It is found that substantial plumage differences between populations required roughly two million years to evolve, and morphometric trait evolution showed greater idiosyncrasy and stasis than genetic and phenotypic divergence.

TL;DR: It is found that in many cases, high-throughput sequencing data confirms previous work from traditional molecular markers, although there are examples in which genome-wide genetic markers provide a different biological interpretation.

TL;DR: A phylogenetic model of the joint evolution of breeding and nonbreeding (winter) ranges was developed and applied to the inference of biogeographic history in the emberizoid passerine birds and found that seasonal migration between breeding ranges in North America and winter ranges in the Neotropics evolved primarily via shifts of winter ranges toward the tropics from ancestral ranges inNorth America.