The wind environment and latitude were excluded as potential causes for this morphology.
We assembled published information (see Text S1) on environmental variables that reflect the seasonality in the environment: (i) latitude, (ii) occurrence in buffered breeding habitats; and (iii) use of temporally variable food items.
leuconotus is found throughout arid and semi-arid environments between latitudes 19 and 32oS in mainland Australia.
Of the 952,147 geographic barriers identified on the planet, only about 1% are topographically similar to barriers associated with known ring taxa, with most of the likely candidates occurring in under-studied parts of the world (for example, marine environments, tropical latitudes).
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Our results will be helpful for further studies on the low temperature tolerance of Kappaphycus and for screening Kappaphycus strains for growth in a lower temperature environment (or higher latitude regions).
To this aim, we analyzed three community-level indicators of climate change impacts that are based on the optimal thermal environment and average latitude of the distribution of bird species present at local communities.
The climate belongs to the tropical savannah of the low latitude environment.
