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Interpretation please

To: Angus Innes <>
Subject: Interpretation please
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:49:05 +1100
Angus,

I will take a stab at it. " A study of honeyeaters of the family Meliphagidae highlights the influence of geographic barriers which effect their distribution geographically and over time in the monsoon areas of Oz" or words to that effect". But then being an uneducated oik, I am probably wrong.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford

On 31/10/2010, at 7:09 PM, Angus Innes wrote:


The beauty of Birding Aus is its egalitarianism and the little peep we get into the lives and knowledge of others involved in birds. In the following case the insight is obscured by my ignorance. Every speciality evolves its' own language and terminology, but I am a bit bluffed by the the title of the paper referred to in the second last (penultimate) paragraph of Bruce's (Wedderburn Birding) post on White- naped Honeyeaters, i.e.

"Toon, A., J.M. Hughes, and L. Joseph (2010), Multilocus analysis of
honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) highlights spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the influence of biogeographic barriers in the Australian monsoonal zone,
Mol. Ecol. 19, 2980-2994. See
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04730.x/abstract "

I think I can have a good stab at the first and last underlined term (my underlining), but the second has me bluffed - their interplay is consequently a little baffling. Not surprisingly the terms do not appear in standard dictionaries.

Could someone please have a stab at a translation (or elucidation) of the title - or what, in essence, the article is about.

I did look at the abstract, but that raises even more problems with my ignorance.

Grateful for any enlightenment.

Angus Innes.                                      ==============================
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