Brett W. Benz

Brett W. Benz, U.S. ornithologist

• Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

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• Benz, B.W., Robbins, M.B. & Peterson, A.T. 2006. Evolutionary history of woodpeckers and allies (Aves: Picidae): Placing key taxa on the phylogenetic tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 389–399. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.021 Reference page. 

• Jønsson, K.A., Bowie, R.C.K., Moyle, R.G., Christidis, L., Norman, J.A., Benz, B.W. & Fjeldså, J. 2010. Historical biogeography of an Indo-Pacific passerine bird family (Pachycephalidae): different colonization patterns in the Indonesian and Melanesian archipelagos. Journal of Biogeography 37: 245–257. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02220.x Reference page. 

• Benz, B.W. & Robbins, M.B. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics, vocalizations, and species limits in Celeus woodpeckers (Aves: Picidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 29–44. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.001 Reference page. 

• Benz, B.W., Robbins, M.B. & Zimmer, K.J. 2015. Phylogenetic relationships of the Helmeted Woodpecker (Dryocopus galeatus): A case of interspecific mimicry? Auk 132:939-950. Full article (PDF)Reference page. 

• 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. 

• McCullough, J.M., Oliveros, C.H., Benz, B.W., Zenil-Ferguson, R., Cracraft, J., Moyle, R.G. & Andersen, M.J. 2022. Wallacean and Melanesian islands promote higher rates of diversification within the global passerine radiation Corvides. Systematic Biology 71(6): 1423–1439 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac044 Reference page.