Jon Fjeldså

Jon Fjeldså

Professor, emeritus


  1. Published

    Phylogeny of Laniarius: Molecular data reveal L. liberatus synonymous with L. erlangeri and "plumage coloration" as unreliable morphologic character for defining species and species groups.

    Nguembock, B., Fjeldså, Jon, Couloux, A. & Pasquet, E., 2008, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48, ?, p. 396-407

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Polyphyly of the genus Apalis and a new generic name for the species pulchra and ruwenzorii

    Nguembock, B., Fjeldså, Jon, Couloux, A., Cruaud, C. & Pasquet, E., 2008, In: Ibis. 150, p. 756-765

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    The phylogeny of the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and implications for the evolution of a unique nest-building technique.

    Nguembock, B., Fjeldså, Jon, Tillier, A. & Pasquet, E., 2007, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42, p. 272-286 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Molecular phylogeny of Carduelinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae) supports polyphyly of Serinus and Carduelis and a profound taxonomic revision of these genera

    Nguembock, B., Fjeldså, Jon, Coloux, A. & Pasquet, E., 2009, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 51, p. 169-181

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Specimen collection is essential for modern science

    Nachman, M. W., Beckman, E. J., Bowie, R. C. K., Cicero, C., Conroy, C. J., Dudley, R., Hayes, T. B., Koo, M. S., Lacey, E. A., Martin, C. H., McGuire, J. A., Patton, J. L., Spencer, C. L., Tarvin, R. D., Wake, M. H., Wang, I. J., Achmadi, A., Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T., Andersen, M. J., Arroyave, J. & 99 others, Austin, C. C., Barker, F. K., Barrow, L. N., Barrowclough, G. F., Bates, J., Bauer, A. M., Bell, K. C., Bell, R. C., Bronson, A. W., Brown, R. M., Burbrink, F. T., Burns, K. J., Cadena, C. D., Cannatella, D. C., Castoe, T. A., Chakrabarty, P., Colella, J. P., Cook, J. A., Cracraft, J. L., Davis, D. R., Rabosky, A. R. D., D'Elía, G., Dumbacher, J. P., Dunnum, J. L., Edwards, S. V., Esselstyn, J. A., Faivovich, J., Fjeldså, Jon, Flores-Villela, O. A., Ford, K., Fuchs, J., Fujita, M. K., Good, J. M., Greenbaum, E., Greene, H. W., Hackett, S., Hamidy, A., Hanken, J., Haryoko, T., Hawkins, M. T. R., Heaney, L. R., Hillis, D. M., Hollingsworth, B. D., Hornsby, A. D., Hosner, Peter Andrew, Irham, M., Jansa, S., Jiménez, R. A., Joseph, L., Kirchman, J. J., LaDuc, T. J., Leaché, A. D., Lessa, E. P., López-Fernández, H., Mason, N. A., McCormack, J. E., McMahan, C. D., Moyle, R. G., Ojeda, R. A., Olson, L. E., Onn, C. K., Parenti, L. R., Parra-Olea, G., Patterson, B. D., Pauly, G. B., Pavan, S. E., Peterson, A. T., Poe, S., Rabosky, D. L., Raxworthy, C. J., Reddy, S., Rico-Guevara, A., Riyanto, A., Rocha, L. A., Ron, S. R., Rovito, S. M., Rowe, K. C., Rowley, J., Ruane, S., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Shultz, A. J., Sidlauskas, B., Sikes, D. S., Simmons, N. B., Stiassny, M. L. J., Streicher, J. W., Stuart, B. L., Summers, A. P., Tavera, J., Teta, P., Thompson, C. W., Timm, R. M., Torres-Carvajal, O., Voelker, G., Voss, R. S., Winker, K., Witt, C., Wommack, E. A. & Zink, R. M., 2023, In: PLOS Biology. 21, 11, 6 p., e3002318.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Molecular phylogeny of Chloropseidae and Irenidae - cryptic species and biogeography

    Moltesen, M. M., Irestedt, M., Fjeldså, Jon, Ericson, P. G. P. & Jønsson, Knud Andreas, 2012, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65, 3, p. 903-914 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Klimapenge redder regnskov: DOF finansierer opkøb af CO2-skov i Ecuador

    Meltofte, H. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2011, In: Fugle og Natur. 2011, 4, p. 26-27 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  8. Published

    Fuglene i Danmark

    Meltofte, H. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2002, København: Gyldendal. 749 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  9. Published

    Social selection parapatry in Afrotropical sunbirds

    McEntee, J. P., Peñalba, J. V., Werema, C., Mulungu, E., Mbilinyi, M., Moyer, D., Hansen, Louis André, Fjeldså, Jon & Bowie, R. C. K., Jun 2016, In: Evolution. 70, 6, p. 1307-1321 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Molecular phylogenetics and species limits in a cryptically coloured radiation of Australo-Papuan passerine birds (Pachycephalidae: Colluricincla)

    Marki, P. Z., Fjeldså, Jon, Irestedt, M. & Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Jul 2018, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 124, p. 100-105 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Supermatrix phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian Meliphagides radiation (Ayes: Passeriformes)

    Marki, P. Z., Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Irestedt, M., Nguyen, J. M. T., Rahbek, Carsten & Fjeldså, Jon, Feb 2017, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107, p. 516-529 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Breeding system evolution influenced the geographic expansion and diversification of the core Corvoidea (Aves: Passeriformes)

    Marki, P. Z., Fabre, P. F., Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Rahbek, Carsten, Fjeldså, Jon & Kennedy, J. D., 2015, In: Evolution. 69, 7, p. 1874-1924 51 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Adaptive radiation and the evolution of nectarivory in a large songbird clade

    Marki, P. Z., Kennedy, J. D., Cooney, C. R., Rahbek, Carsten & Fjeldså, Jon, 2019, In: Evolution. 73, 6, p. 1226-1240

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    A distinctive new subspecies of the green-cheeked parakeet (Pyrrhura Molinae, Psittacidae) from Bolivia

    Maijer, S., Herzog, S. K., Kessler, M., Friggens, M. T. & Fjeldså, Jon, 1999, In: Ornitological Neotropical. 9, p. 185-191

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Description of a new Cranioleuca Spinetail from Bolivia and a "leapfrog pattern" of geographical variation in the genus

    Maijer, S. & Fjeldså, Jon, 1997, In: Ibis. 139, p. 606-616

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Public support for conserving bird species runs counter to climate change impacts on their distributions

    Lundhede, Thomas, Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl, Hanley, N., Fjeldså, Jon, Rahbek, Carsten, Strange, Niels & Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark, 2014, In: P L o S One. 9, 7, 8 p., e101281.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Interpreting the process behind endemism in China by integrating the phylogeography and ecological niche models of the Stachyridopsis ruficeps

    Liu, H., Wang, W., Song, G., Qu, Y., Li, S., Fjeldså, Jon & Lei, F., 2 Oct 2012, In: PLoS ONE. 7, 10, 13 p., e46761.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Explosive radiation and spatial expansion across the cold environments of the Old World in an avian family

    Liu, B., Alström, P., Olsson, U., Fjeldså, Jon, Quan, Q., Roselaar, K. C. S., Saitoh, T., Yao, C., Hao, Y., Wang, W., Qu, Y. & Lei, F., Aug 2017, In: Ecology and Evolution. 7, 16, p. 6346-6357 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa

    Linder, H. P., Klerk, H. M. D., Born, J., Burgess, Neil David, Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, 2012, In: Journal of Biogeography. 39, 7, p. 1189-1205 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Shaped by uneven Pleistocene climate: mitochondrial phylogeographic pattern and population history of white wagtail Motacilla alba (Aves: Passeriformes)

    Li, X., Dong, F., Lei, F., Alström, P., Zhang, R., Ödeen, A., Fjeldså, Jon, Ericson, P. G. P., Zou, F. & Yang, X., 2016, In: Journal of Avian Biology. 47, 2, p. 263-274 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    The potential drivers in forming avian biodiversity hotspots in the East Himalaya Mountains of Southwest China

    Lei, F., Qu, Y., Song, G., Alström, P. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2015, In: Integrative Zoology. 10, 2, p. 171-181 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Reconciling supertramps, great speciators and relict species with the taxon cycle stages of a large island radiation (Aves: Campephagidae)

    Le Pepke, M., Irestedt, M., Fjeldså, Jon, Rahbek, Carsten & Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Jun 2019, In: Journal of Biogeography. 46, 6, p. 1214-1225

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Untangling cryptic diversity in the High Andes: Revision of the Scytalopus [magellanicus] complex (Rhinocryptidae) in Peru reveals three new species

    Krabbe, N. K., Schulenberg, T. S., Hosner, Peter Andrew, Rosenberg, K. V., Davis, T. J., Rosenberg, G. H., Lane, D. F., Andersen, M. J., Robbins, M. B., Cadena, C. D., Valqui, T., Salter, J. F., Spencer, A. J., Angulo, F. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2020, In: Auk. 137, 2, p. 1-26 26 p., ukaa003.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Avian diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Krabbe, N., Skov, F., Fjeldså, Jon & Petersen, I. K., 1998, In: DIVA Technical Report. 4, p. 1-143

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  25. Published

    Patterns of species richness and narrow endemism of terrestrial bird species in the Afrotropical Region

    Klerk, H. D., Crowe, T. M., Fjeldså, Jon & Burgess, N. D., 2002, In: Journal of Zoology. 256, p. 327-342

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Biogeographical patterns of endemic terrestrial Afrotropical birds

    Klerk, H. D., Crowe, T. M., Fjeldså, Jon & Burgess, N. D., 2002, In: Diversity and Distributions. 8, p. 147-162

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Species richness and endemism of plant and bird communities along two gradients of elevation, humidity, and land use in Bolivian Andes

    Kessler, M., Herzog, S. K., Fjeldså, Jon & Bach, K., 2001, In: Diversity and Distributions. 7, p. 61-77

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Historical limits on species co-occurrence determine variation in clade richness among New World passerine birds

    Kennedy, J. D., Price, T. D., Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, Apr 2017, In: Journal of Biogeography. 44, 4, p. 736-747 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Does the colonization of new biogeographic regions influence the diversification and accumulation of clade richness among the Corvides (Aves: Passeriformes)?

    Kennedy, J. D., Borregaard, Michael Krabbe, Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Holt, B. G., Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, Jan 2017, In: Evolution. 71, 1, p. 38-50 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    The influence of wing morphology upon the dispersal, geographical distributions and diversification of the Corvides (Aves; Passeriformes)

    Kennedy, J. D., Borregaard, Michael Krabbe, Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Marki, P. Z., Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, 14 Dec 2016, In: Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences. 283, 1844, 10 p., 20161922.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Peripheral eco‐morphology predicts restricted lineage diversification and endemism among corvoid passerine birds

    Kennedy, J. D., Marki, P. Z., Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, 2021, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30, 1, p. 79-98

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Completing Wallace's journey

    Kennedy, J. D. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2020, In: Science. 367, 6474, p. 140-141

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    The association between morphological and ecological characters across a global passerine radiation

    Kennedy, J. D., Marki, P. Z., Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, 2020, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 89, 4, p. 1094-1108 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Expansion in geographical and morphological space drives continued lineage diversification in a global passerine radiation

    Kennedy, J. D., Borregaard, Michael Krabbe, Marki, P. Z., Machac, Antonin, Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, 19 Dec 2018, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285, 1893, 9 p., 20182181.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Into and out of the tropics: the generation of the latitudinal gradient among New World passerine birds

    Kennedy, J. D., Wang, Z., Weir, J. T., Rahbek, Carsten, Fjeldså, Jon & Price, T. D., 2014, In: Journal of Biogeography. 41, 9, p. 1746-1757 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Fabre, P. F., Ricklefs, R. E. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2011, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108, 6, p. 2328-2333 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Phylogeny and biogeography of minivets (Passeriformes: Campephagidae: Pericrocotus: Implications for biogeography and convergent plumage evolution

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Irestedt, M., Ericson, P. G. P. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2009, In: Zoologica Scripta. 39, p. 1-9 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Historical biogeography of an Indo-Pacific passerine bird family (Pachycephalidae): different colonization patterns in the Indonesian and Melanesian archipelagos

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Bowie, R. C. K., Moyle, R. G., Christidis, L., Norman, J. A., Benz, B. W. & Fjeldså, Jon, Feb 2010, In: Journal of Biogeography. 37, 2, p. 245-257 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Fjeldså, Jon, Ericson, P. G. P. & Irestedt, M., 2007, In: Biology Letters. 3, p. 323-326

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. Published

    Molecular phylogenetics and diversification within one of the most geographically variable bird species complexes (Pachycephala pectoralis/melanura)

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Bowie, R. C., Moyle, R. G., Christidis, L., Filardi, C., Norman, J. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2008, In: Journal of Avian Biology. 39, p. 473–478

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific ground-doves

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Irestedt, M., Bowie, R. C. K., Christidis, L. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2011, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59, p. 538–543

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Phylogeny and biogeography of Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes)

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Bowie, R. C. K., Moyle, R. G., Irestedt, M., Christidis, L., Norman, J. A. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2010, In: Ecography. 33, 2, p. 232-241 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    Systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific ground-doves

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Irestedt, M., Bowie, R. C. K., Christidis, L. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2011, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59, 2, p. 538-543 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Biogeography and biotic assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid passerine birds

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Borregaard, Michael Krabbe, Carstensen, D. W., Hansen, Louis André, Kennedy, J. D., Machac, Antonin, Marki, P. Z., Fjeldså, Jon & Rahbek, Carsten, Nov 2017, In: Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 48, p. 231-253 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Ayes: Corvides)

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Fabre, P. F., Kennedy, J. D., Holt, B. G., Borregaard, Michael Krabbe, Rahbek, Carsten & Fjeldså, Jon, 2016, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94, Part A, p. 87-94 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    A molecular phylogeny of minivets (Passeriformes: Campephagidae: Pericrocotus): implications for biogeography and convergent plumage evolution

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Irestedt, M., Ericson, P. G. P. & Fjeldså, Jon, Jan 2010, In: Zoologica Scripta. 39, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Biogeographic history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Bowie, R. C. K., Nylander, J. A. A., Christidis, L., Norman, J. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2010, In: Journal of Biogeography. 37, 9, p. 1767-1781 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation (Aves: Pachycephala)

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Irestedt, M., Christidis, L., Clegg, S. & Fjeldså, Jon, 2014, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281, 1777, 10 p., 20131727.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Determining biogeographical patterns of dispersal and diversification in oscine passerine birds in Australia, South East Asia and Africa

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas & Fjeldså, Jon, 2006, In: Journal of Biogeography. 33, p. 1155-1165

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri)

    Jønsson, Knud Andreas & Fjeldså, Jon, 2006, In: Zoologica Scripta. 35, p. 149-186

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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