Modeling environmentally associated morphological and genetic variation in a rainforest bird, and its application to conservation prioritization

To better understand how environment shapes phenotypic and genetic variation, we explore the relationship between environmental variables across Ecuador and genetic and morphological variation in the wedge‐billed woodcreeper ( Glyphorynchus spirurus ), a common Neotropical rainforest bird species. Generalized dissimilarity models show that variation in amplified fragment length polymorphism markers was strongly associated with environmental...