Brian Tilston Smith

Brian Tilston Smith, U.S. ornithologist

• Louisiana Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Taxon names authored

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• 1 taxon names authored by Brian Tilston Smith

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2013

• Whittaker, A., Aleixo, A., Whitney, B.M., Smith, B.T. & Klicka, J. 2013. A distinctive new species of gnatcatcher in the Polioptila guianensis complex (Aves: Polioptilidae) from western Amazonian Brazil. pp.301-305. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie D. (Org.). Handbook of the Birds of the World, Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. 1ed. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2014

• Bryson, R.W., Jr., Chaves, J., Smith, B.T., Miller, M.J., Winker, K., Pérez-Emán, J.L. & Klicka, J. 2014. Diversification across the New World within the ‘blue’ cardinalids (Aves: Cardinalidae). Journal of Biogeography 41(3): 587–599. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12218 Reference page. 
• Smith, B.T., McCormack, J.E., Cuervo, A.M., Hickerson, M.J., Aleixo, A., Cadena, C.D., Pérez-Emán, J.L., Burney, C.M., Xie, X., Harvey, M.G., Faircloth, B.C., Glenn, T.C., Derryberry, E.P., Prejean, J., Fields, S. & Brumfield, R.T. 2014. The drivers of tropical speciation. Nature. 515(7527): 406–409. DOI: 10.1038/nature13687 ResearchGate ResearchGate: Supplementary information. Reference page. 

2018

• Smith, B.T., Bryson, R.W.Jr., Mauck III, W.M., Chaves, J., Robbins, M.B., Aleixo, A. & Klicka, J. 2018. Species delimitation and biogeography of the gnatcatchers and gnatwrens (Aves: Polioptilidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126:45-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.012Reference page. 

2019

• Oliveros, C.H., Field, D.J., Ksepka, D.T., Barker, F.K., Aleixo, A., Andersen, M.J., Alström, P., Benz, B.W., Braun, E.L., Braun, M.J., Bravo, G.A., Brumfield, R.T., Chesser, R.T., Claramunt, S., Cracraft, J., Cuervo, A.M., Derryberry, E.P., Glenn, T.C., Harvey, M.G., Hosner, P.A., Joseph, L., Kimball, R.T., Mack, A.L., Miskelly, C.M., Peterson A.T., Robbins, M.B., Sheldon, F.H., Silveira, L.F., Smith, B.T., White, N.D., Moyle, R.G. & Faircloth, B.C. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116(16): 7916–7925 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813206116 PDF. Reference page. 

2020

• Harvey, M.G, Bravo, G.A., Claramunt, S, Cuervo, A.M., Derryberry, G.E., Battilana, J., Seeholzer, G.F., McKay, J.S., O’Meara, B.C., Faircloth, B.C., Edwards, S.V., Pérez-Emán, J.L., Moyle, R.G., Sheldon, F.H., Aleixo, A., Smith, B.T., Chesser, R.T., Silveira, L.F., Cracraft, J., Brumfield, R.T. & Derryberry, E.P. 2020. The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Science 370 no.6522: 1343–1348. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz6970 Reference page. 

2022

• Smith, B.T., Merwin, J., Provost, K.L., Thom, G., Brumfield, R.T., Ferreira, M., Mauck III, W.M., Moyle, R.G., Wright, T.F. & Joseph, L. 2022. Phylogenomic analysis of the parrots of the world distinguishes artifactual from biological sources of gene tree discordance. Systematic Biology In press DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac055 Reference page. 

2023

• Klicka, J., Epperly, K., Smith, B.T., Spellman, G.M., Chaves, J.A., Escalante, P., Witt, C.C., Canales-del-Castillo, R. & Zink, R.M. 2023. Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren. Ornithology 140(3): ukad018 DOI: 10.1093/ornithology/ukad018 Reference page. 
• Reeve, A.H., Gower, G., Pujolar, J.M., Smith, B.T., Petersen, B., Olsson, U., Haryoko, T., Koane, B., Maiah, G. , Blom, M.P.K., Ericson, P.G.P., Irestedt, M., Racimo, F., Jønsson, K.A. 2023. Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations. Evolution Letters 7(1): 24–36. DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrac006 Reference page.