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Per Alström

Per Alström

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
9274
World Ranking
6273
National Ranking
159

Overview

Per Alström is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers significant subfields such as Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of their research focus on genetic diversity and population structure, avian ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, fish ecology and management studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Per Alström has authored several recent papers, including:

  • Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data, 2023, Avian Research
  • Most Genomic Loci Misrepresent the Phylogeny of an Avian Radiation Because of Ancient Gene Flow, 2021, Systematic Biology
  • Asymmetric introgression reveals the genetic architecture of a plumage trait, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A near-complete and time-calibrated phylogeny of the Old World flycatchers, robins and chats (Aves, Muscicapidae), 2022, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • The role of evolutionary time, diversification rates and dispersal in determining the global diversity of a large radiation of passerine birds, 2020, Journal of Biogeography

Their frequent co-authors include Urban Olsson, Fumin Lei, Paul F. Donald, Martin Irestedt, and Martin Stervander.

Per Alström's research has been published across several key venues, such as:

  • Birds of the World
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Zoologica Scripta
  • Systematic Biology
  • Journal für Ornithologie

Best Publications

  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

    Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

    Guojie Zhang;Guojie Zhang;Cai Li;Qiye Li;Bo Li

  • Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in biogeography: A bayesian approach to dispersal-vicariance analysis of the thrushes (Aves: Turdus)

    Johan A. A. Nylander;Johan A. A. Nylander;Urban Olsson;Per Alström;Per Alström;Isabel Sanmartín

  • Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

    Trevor D. Price;Daniel M. Hooper;Caitlyn D. Buchanan;Ulf S. Johansson

  • Earth history and the passerine superradiation

    Carl H Oliveros;Daniel Jared Field;Daniel Jared Field;Daniel T Ksepka;F Keith Barker

  • Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea

    Per Alström;Per G.P. Ericson;Urban Olsson;Per Sundberg

  • A field guide to the rare birds of Britain and Europe

    Per Alström;Peter R Colston;Ian Lewington

  • Non-monophyletic taxa and cryptic species—Evidence from a molecular phylogeny of leaf-warblers (Phylloscopus, Aves)

    Urban Olsson;Per Alström;Per Alström;Per G.P. Ericson;Per Sundberg

  • Cryptic species in the genus Phylloscopus (Old World leaf warblers)

    Darren E. Irwin;P. E. R. Alström;Urban Olsson;Z. M. Benowitz-Fredericks

  • Evolution of ultraviolet vision in the largest avian radiation - the passerines.

    Anders Ödeen;Olle Håstad;Olle Håstad;Per Alström

  • Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae)

    George Sangster;George Sangster;Per Alström;Emma Forsmark;Urban Olsson

  • Build-up of the Himalayan avifauna through immigration: a biogeographical analysis of the Phylloscopus and Seicercus warblers.

    Ulf S. Johansson;Per Alström;Per Alström;Urban Olsson;Per G. P. Ericson

  • 'Ghost introgression' as a cause of deep mitochondrial divergence in a bird species complex.

    Dezhi Zhang;Linfang Tang;Yalin Cheng;Yan Hao

  • Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes).

    Tianlong Cai;Alice Cibois;Per Alström;Robert G. Moyle

  • The use of sounds in avian systematics and the importance of bird sound archives

    Per Alström;Richard Ranft

  • Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity

    Per Alström;Per Alström;Per Alström;Keith N. Barnes;Urban Olsson;F. Keith Barker

  • Phylogeny of babblers (Aves, Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification

    Magnus Gelang;Alice Cibois;Eric Pasquet;Urban Olsson

  • Phylogeny and classification of the Old World Emberizini (Aves, Passeriformes).

    Per Alström;Urban Olsson;Fumin Lei;Hai-tao Wang;Hai-tao Wang

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

    Fumin Lei;Yanhua Qu;Gang Song;Per Alström;Per Alström

  • The Lanius excubitor (Aves, Passeriformes) conundrum--Taxonomic dilemma when molecular and non-molecular data tell different stories.

    Urban Olsson;Per Alström;Per Alström;Lars Svensson;Mansour Aliabadian

  • Species delimitation based on multiple criteria : the Spotted Bush Warbler Bradypterus thoracicus complex (Aves : Megaluridae)

    Per Alström;Per Alström;Pamela C. Rasmussen;Urban Olsson;Per Sundberg

  • Old divergences in a boreal bird supports long-term survival through the Ice Ages

    Takema Saitoh;Takema Saitoh;Per Alström;Per Alström;Isao Nishiumi;Yoshimitsu Shigeta

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumin Lei
Fumin Lei Chinese Academy of Sciences
Per G. P. Ericson
Per G. P. Ericson Swedish Museum of Natural History
Jon Fjeldså
Jon Fjeldså University of Copenhagen
Martin Irestedt
Martin Irestedt Swedish Museum of Natural History
Knud A. Jønsson
Knud A. Jønsson Swedish Museum of Natural History
Per Sundberg
Per Sundberg University of Gothenburg
Trevor D. Price
Trevor D. Price University of Chicago
Paul F. Donald
Paul F. Donald University of Cambridge
Elizabeth P. Derryberry
Elizabeth P. Derryberry University of Tennessee at Knoxville
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen

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