When should we expect early bursts of trait evolution in comparative data? Predictions from an evolutionary food web model

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Species Interactions Mediate Phylogenetic Community Structure in a Hyperdiverse Lizard Assemblage from Arid Australia

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A NOVEL COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SHIFTS IN THE RATE OF CHARACTER EVOLUTION ON TREES

(2011) Jonathan M. Eastman et al.   EVOLUTION

NEUTRAL BIODIVERSITY THEORY CAN EXPLAIN THE IMBALANCE OF PHYLOGENETIC TREES BUT NOT THE TEMPO OF THEIR DIVERSIFICATION

(2011) T. Jonathan Davies et al.   EVOLUTION

Parallel ecological diversification in Antarctic notothenioid fishes as evidence for adaptive radiation

(2011) SEREINA RUTSCHMANN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Prolonging the Past Counteracts the Pull of the Present: Protracted Speciation Can Explain Observed Slowdowns in Diversification

(2011) Rampal S. Etienne et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Body Size Evolution in Mammals: Complexity in Tempo and Mode

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Global patterns in predator–prey size relationships reveal size dependency of trophic transfer efficiency

(2010) Carolyn Barnes et al.   ECOLOGY

ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE RATE OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF GREATER ANTILLEAN ANOLES

(2010) D. Luke Mahler et al.   EVOLUTION

Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

(2010) J. B. YODER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Speciation along a depth gradient in a marine adaptive radiation

(2010) Travis Ingram   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in an evolutionary food-web model

(2010) Åke Brännström et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Niche Evolution, Trophic Structure, and Species Turnover in Model Food Webs

(2009) Travis Ingram et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Compartments in a marine food web associated with phylogeny, body mass, and habitat structure

(2009) Enrico L. Rezende et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

PISCIVORY LIMITS DIVERSIFICATION OF FEEDING MORPHOLOGY IN CENTRARCHID FISHES

(2009) David C. Collar et al.   EVOLUTION

Diet predicts intestine length in Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid fishes

(2009) Catherine E. Wagner et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal

(2009) D. Ackerly   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional trait assembly through ecological and evolutionary time

(2009) James C. Stegen et al.   Theoretical Ecology

The Ecological Dynamics of Clade Diversification and Community Assembly

(2008) Mark A. McPeek   AMERICAN NATURALIST

BIOTIC INTERACTIONS AND MACROEVOLUTION: EXTENSIONS AND MISMATCHES ACROSS SCALES AND LEVELS

(2008) David Jablonski   EVOLUTION

Density-dependent diversification in North American wood warblers

(2008) D. L Rabosky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Density-Dependent Cladogenesis in Birds

(2008) Albert B Phillimore et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Emergence of complexity in evolving niche-model food webs

(2007) Christian Guill et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY