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4 unusual facts about Jürgen Haffer


Handbook of the Birds of the World

It has an introductory essay on "Species Concepts and Species Limits in Ornithology" by Jürgen Haffer.

Jürgen Haffer

From his studies on the Amazonian avifauna, he authored several papers on Neotropical ornithology and devised his Amazonian refugia theory to explain the rapid diversification of the Neotropical fauna in Pleistocene times.

In 2013, Haffer was commemorated with the newly described Campina Jay, Cyanocorax hafferi.

Selenidera

The genus Selenidera was used by the German biologist Jürgen Haffer as an example of the "refugia" hypothesis of speciation.



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