Read about research in the Kirschel lab, including on hybridisation and speciation in tinkerbirds in Africa, patterns of endemism in the Eastern Mediterranean, and our work in bioacoustics.

Abstract. Genomic analyses of hybrid zones provide excellent opportunities to investigate the consequences of introgression in nature. In combination with

Temperature and rainfall were posited by Gloger and Görnitz to explain a pattern they observed of greater carotenoid colour intensity towards the tropics. We test this hypothesis in a continent-wide ...

Diversification mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa have long attracted research interest, with varying support for either allopatric or parapatric models of speciation. However, studies have seldom bee...