Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

Sedimentary record of Andean mountain building

(2018) Brian K. Horton   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Using molecular phylogenies in island biogeography: it's about time

(2018) Luis Valente et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Filter-dispersal assembly of lowland Neotropical rainforests across the Andes

(2018) Jordan B. Bemmels et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The road to evolutionary success: insights from the demographic history of an Amazonian palm

(2018) Warita A. Melo et al.   HEREDITY

Iriarteeae palms tracked the uplift of Andean Cordilleras

(2018) Christine D. Bacon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder-event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection

(2018) Richard H. Ree et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early arrival and climatically-linked geographic expansion of New World monkeys from tiny African ancestors

(2018) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Revision of Banded Knifefishes of the Gymnotus carapo and G. tigre clades (Gymnotidae Gymnotiformes) from the Southern Neotropics

(2018) JACK M. CRAIG et al.   ZOOTAXA

Untangling the Tangled Bank: A Novel Method for Partitioning the Effects of Phylogenies and Traits on Ecological Networks

(2017) Vinicius A. G. Bastazini et al.   Evolutionary Biology

The Amazon at sea: Onset and stages of the Amazon River from a marine record, with special reference to Neogene plant turnover in the drainage basin

(2017) Carina Hoorn et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Biome stability in South America over the last 30 kyr: Inferences from long-term vegetation dynamics and habitat modelling

(2017) Gabriel C. Costa et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Genomic signatures of paleodrainages in a freshwater fish along the southeastern coast of Brazil: genetic structure reflects past riverine properties

(2017) A T Thomaz et al.   HEREDITY

Variation in the species richness of parasitoid wasps (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae and Rhyssinae) across sites on different continents

(2017) Isrrael C. Gómez et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Beyond climate control on species range: The importance of soil data to predict distribution of Amazonian plant species

(2017) Fernando O. G. Figueiredo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

An event model for phylogenetic biogeography using explicitly geographical ranges

(2017) J. Salvador Arias   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The historical connections between the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest revisited

(2017) Roger Maia Dias Ledo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Modelling responses of western Amazonian palms to soil nutrients

(2017) Rodrigo Cámara-Leret et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Estimating synchronous demographic changes across populations using hABC and its application for a herpetological community from northeastern Brazil

(2017) Marcelo Gehara et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Do ecological communities disperse across biogeographic barriers as a unit?

(2017) Jordan D. Satler et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

(2017) Xianfeng Wang et al.   NATURE

Biogeography of Amazonian fishes: deconstructing river basins as biogeographic units

(2017) Fernando C. P. Dagosta et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot

(2017) Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin

(2017) Kyle G. Dexter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

(2017) Domingos Cardoso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

(2017) C. Levis et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives

(2017) Catherine Badgley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Process, Mechanism, and Modeling in Macroecology

(2017) Sean R. Connolly et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A latitudinal phylogeographic diversity gradient in birds

(2017) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Geography shapes the phylogeny of frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae): a remarkable example of recent rapid radiation in sky islands

(2017) Mauricio Diazgranados et al.   PeerJ

A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins

(2017) Pablo A. Tedesco et al.   Scientific Data

Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

(2017) Carlos Jaramillo et al.   Science Advances

The multilayer nature of ecological networks

(2017) Shai Pilosof et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biogeography: Drivers of bioregionalization

(2017) Alexandre Antonelli   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms

(2017) Renske E. Onstein et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

(2017) Frédéric Mahé et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Species-rich networks and eco-evolutionary synthesis at the metacommunity level

(2017) Hirokazu Toju et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Coexistence in Close Relatives: Beyond Competition and Reproductive Isolation in Sister Taxa

(2016) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

In the depths of obscurity: Knowledge gaps and extinction risk of Brazilian worm lizards (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae)

(2016) Guarino R. Colli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Exploring palm-insect interactions across geographical and environmental gradients

(2016) Zorayda Restrepo Correa et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The Neogene rise of the tropical Andes facilitated diversification of wax palms (Ceroxylon: Arecaceae) through geographical colonization and climatic niche separation

(2016) María J. Sanín et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mechanistic simulation models in macroecology and biogeography: state-of-art and prospects

(2016) Juliano Sarmento Cabral et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

(2016) Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Investigating the timing of origin and evolutionary processes shaping regional species diversity: Insights from simulated data and neotropical butterfly diversification rates

(2016) Pável Matos-Maraví   EVOLUTION

Phylogeographic concordance factors quantify phylogeographic congruence among co-distributed species in theSarracenia alatapitcher plant system

(2016) Jordan D. Satler et al.   EVOLUTION

Integrating systematics and biogeography to disentangle the roles of history and ecology in biotic assembly

(2016) Brian C. Weeks et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Recurrent connections between Amazon and Atlantic forests shaped diversity in Caatinga four-eyed frogs

(2016) Maria Tereza C. Thomé et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography of anurans and squamates in the Cerrado hotspot: coincident endemism patterns in the richest and most impacted savanna on the globe

(2016) Josué A. R. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A compositional turnover zone of biogeographical magnitude within lowland Amazonia

(2016) Hanna Tuomisto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

How marine currents influenced the widespread natural overseas dispersal of reptiles in the Western Indian Ocean region

(2016) Oliver Hawlitschek et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America

(2016) R. E. Reis et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Into the Andes: multiple independent colonizations drive montane diversity in the Neotropical clearwing butterflies Godyridina

(2016) Nicolas Chazot et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A mid-Pleistocene rainforest corridor enabled synchronous invasions of the Atlantic Forest by Amazonian anole lizards

(2016) Ivan Prates et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in Andean bellflowers (Campanulaceae)

(2016) Laura P. Lagomarsino et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tectonic blocks and molecular clocks

(2016) Kenneth De Baets et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fossil biogeography: a new model to infer dispersal, extinction and sampling from palaeontological data

(2016) Daniele Silvestro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disentangling the Role of Climate, Topography and Vegetation in Species Richness Gradients

(2016) Mario R. Moura et al.   PLoS One

Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards

(2016) Ivan Prates et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a paradigm shift in comparative phylogeography driven by trait-based hypotheses

(2016) Anna Papadopoulou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests

(2016) Carlos A. Peres et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Barrier Displacement on a Neutral Landscape: Toward a Theory of Continental Biogeography

(2016) James S. Albert et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

SpeciesGeoCoder: Fast Categorization of Species Occurrences for Analyses of Biodiversity, Biogeography, Ecology, and Evolution

(2016) Mats Töpel et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Infomap Bioregions: Interactive Mapping of Biogeographical Regions from Species Distributions

(2016) Daniel Edler et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Biogeographic Dating of Speciation Times Using Paleogeographically Informed Processes

(2016) Michael J. Landis   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes)

(2016) KEVIN J. BURNS et al.   ZOOTAXA

Biogeographic barriers drive co-diversification within associated eukaryotes of theSarracenia alatapitcher plant system

(2016) Jordan D. Satler et al.   PeerJ

Extinction in Phylogenetics and Biogeography: From Timetrees to Patterns of Biotic Assemblage

(2016) Isabel Sanmartín et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Global functional diversity of freshwater fish is concentrated in the Neotropics while functional vulnerability is widespread

(2016) A. Toussaint et al.   Scientific Reports

The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa

(2016) Hans ter Steege et al.   Scientific Reports

Miocene orographic uplift forces rapid hydrological change in the southern central Andes

(2016) Alexander Rohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

The Value of Including Intraspecific Measures of Biodiversity in Environmental impact Surveys is Highlighted by the Amazonian Brilliant-Thighed Frog (Allobates Femoralis)

(2016) Pedro Ivo Simões et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity

(2015) Paul V.A. Fine   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Collections-based research in the genomic era

(2015) Sven Buerki et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico

(2015) Loubab Zedane et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

(2015) S. Faurby et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The impact of the megafauna extinctions on savanna woody cover in South America

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics simultaneously operate in the Galápagos islands

(2015) Luis M. Valente et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenies support out-of-equilibrium models of biodiversity

(2015) Marc Manceau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson

(2015) Ben H. Warren et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?

(2015) Carla Maldonado et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic relatedness within Neotropical fern communities increases with soil fertility

(2015) Samuli Lehtonen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeographical signature of river capture events in Amazonian lowlands

(2015) Victor A. Tagliacollo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Soil-Borne Microbiome: Linking Diversity to Function

(2015) Lucas W. Mendes et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic community ecology of soil biodiversity using mitochondrial metagenomics

(2015) Carmelo Andújar et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

(2015) Marianne Espeland et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Rapid biological speciation driven by tectonic evolution in New Zealand

(2015) Dave Craw et al.   Nature Geoscience

Phylogenetics and molecular clocks reveal the repeated evolution of ant-plants after the late Miocene in Africa and the early Miocene in Australasia and the Neotropics

(2015) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Disentangling environmental and spatial processes of community assembly in tropical forests from local to regional scales

(2015) Gabriel Arellano et al.   OIKOS

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

(2015) Christine D. Bacon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses:Pseudomyrmexants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics

(2015) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

(2015) L. H. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

Coordinated Dispersal and Pre-Isthmian Assembly of the Central American Ichthyofauna

(2015) Victor A. Tagliacollo et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Historical Biogeography Using Species Geographical Ranges

(2015) Ignacio Quintero et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly

(2015) Gary G. Mittelbach et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A network approach for identifying and delimiting biogeographical regions

(2015) Daril A. Vilhena et al.   Nature Communications

Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions

(2015) Carsten Meyer et al.   Nature Communications

Measurement errors should always be incorporated in phylogenetic comparative analysis

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Strong effects of variation in taxonomic opinion on diversification analyses

(2015) Søren Faurby et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Seven new microendemic species ofBrachycephalus(Anura: Brachycephalidae) from southern Brazil

(2015) Luiz F. Ribeiro et al.   PeerJ

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) C. Bello et al.   Science Advances

ÁREAS DE ENDEMISMO DE LOS MAMÍFEROS (MAMMALIA) NEOTROPICALES

(2015) Elkin Alexi NOGUERA-URBANO et al.   ACTA BIOLOGICA COLOMBIANA

Phylogenetic endemism in terrestrial mammals

(2015) Dan F. Rosauer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Are We Filling the Data Void? An Assessment of the Amount and Extent of Plant Collection Records and Census Data Available for Tropical South America

(2015) Kenneth Feeley   PLoS One

Patterns of Vertebrate Diversity and Protection in Brazil

(2015) Clinton N. Jenkins et al.   PLoS One

A New Generic Classification of Tribe Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae)1

(2014) Lúcia G. Lohmann et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Causes of endemic radiation in the Caribbean: evidence from the historical biogeography and diversification of the butterfly genus Calisto(Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini)

(2014) Pável Matos-Maraví et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity, habitat loss and conservation in South American pitvipers (Crotalinae:BothropsandBothrocophias)

(2014) Jéssica Fenker et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Drainage reversal of the Amazon River due to the coupling of surface and lithospheric processes

(2014) Victor Sacek   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The emerging field of geogenomics: Constraining geological problems with genetic data

(2014) Paul A. Baker et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Species richness and diversity along edaphic and climatic gradients in Amazonia

(2014) Hanna Tuomisto et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Latitude, productivity and species richness

(2014) Len N. Gillman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Timing the diversification of the Amazonian biota: butterfly divergences are consistent with Pleistocene refugia

(2014) Ivonne J. Garzón-Orduña et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography, vicariance and conservation of snakes of the neglected and endangered Caatinga region, north-eastern Brazil

(2014) Thaís B. Guedes et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Adaptive landscape and functional diversity of Neotropical cichlids: implications for the ecology and evolution of Cichlinae (Cichlidae; Cichliformes)

(2014) J. H. Arbour et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The drivers of tropical speciation

(2014) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   NATURE

Detecting phylogenetic signal in mutualistic interaction networks using a Markov process model

(2014) H. O. Minoarivelo et al.   OIKOS

A New Species of River Dolphin from Brazil or: How Little Do We Know Our Biodiversity

(2014) Tomas Hrbek et al.   PLoS One

High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus

(2014) Marcelo Gehara et al.   PLoS One

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effects of island ontogeny on species diversity and phylogeny

(2014) L. M. Valente et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolutionary reality of higher taxa in mammals

(2014) A. M. Humphreys et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome

(2014) A. C. Carnaval et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating Fossils, Phylogenies, and Niche Models into Biogeography to Reveal Ancient Evolutionary History: The Case of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)

(2014) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Fossil pollen records indicate that Patagonian desertification was not solely a consequence of Andean uplift

(2014) L. Palazzesi et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial patterns of species richness and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants in the neotropical savannas of Brazil

(2014) Davi Rodrigo Rossatto   Brazilian Journal of Botany

Habitat Specialization by Birds in Western Amazonian White-sand Forests

(2013) José Álvarez Alonso et al.   BIOTROPICA

Cladistic biogeography of the Neotropical region: identifying the main events in the diversification of the terrestrial biota

(2013) Juan J. Morrone   CLADISTICS

Why are there so many species in the tropics?

(2013) James H. Brown   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A unified model of species immigration, extinction and abundance on islands

(2013) James Rosindell et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Quaternary range and demographic expansion ofLiolaemus darwinii(Squamata: Liolaemidae) in the Monte Desert of Central Argentina using Bayesian phylogeography and ecological niche modelling

(2013) Arley Camargo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Adaptive radiation, correlated and contingent evolution, and net species diversification in Bromeliaceae

(2013) Thomas J. Givnish et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Revisiting Amazonian phylogeography: insights into diversification hypotheses and novel perspectives

(2013) Rafael N. Leite et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

The Role of Historical Barriers in the Diversification Processes in Open Vegetation Formations during the Miocene/Pliocene Using an Ancient Rodent Lineage as a Model

(2013) Fabrícia F. Nascimento et al.   PLoS One

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography when the Number of Areas is Large

(2013) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive

(2013) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

(2013) Hai Cheng et al.   Nature Communications

Neotropical Plant Evolution: Assembling the Big Picture

(2012) Colin E. Hughes et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Environmental correlates of anuran beta diversity in the Brazilian Cerrado

(2012) Paula H. Valdujo et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

ADAPTIVE RADIATION DRIVEN BY THE INTERPLAY OF ECO-EVOLUTIONARY AND LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS

(2012) Robin Aguilée et al.   EVOLUTION

DEEP DIVERSIFICATION AND LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN ‘DRY DIAGONAL’: INTEGRATING CONTINENT-WIDE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTION MODELING OF GECKOS

(2012) Fernanda P. Werneck et al.   EVOLUTION

The role of frugivory in the diversification of bats in the Neotropics

(2012) Danny Rojas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environment versus dispersal in the assembly of western Amazonian palm communities

(2012) Thea Kristiansen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness and conservation in a biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Fernanda P. Werneck et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. I. Historical biogeography

(2012) William J. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant species richness: the world records

(2012) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

From Amazonia to the Atlantic forest: Molecular phylogeny of Phyzelaphryninae frogs reveals unexpected diversity and a striking biogeographic pattern emphasizing conservation challenges

(2012) Antoine Fouquet et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape

(2012) China A. Hanson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Distribution of living Cupressaceae reflects the breakup of Pangea

(2012) K. Mao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest

(2012) Y. Basset et al.   SCIENCE

An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World

(2012) B. G. Holt et al.   SCIENCE

Miocene Dispersal Drives Island Radiations in the Palm Tribe Trachycarpeae (Arecaceae)

(2012) Christine D. Bacon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity

(2011) N. G. Swenson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phylogenetic Methods in Biogeography

(2011) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Spatial analysis of vicariance: a method for using direct geographical information in historical biogeography

(2011) J. Salvador Arias et al.   CLADISTICS

Defining conservation priorities for freshwater fishes according to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) Angela L. Strecker et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Trophic theory of island biogeography

(2011) Dominique Gravel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Partitioning global patterns of freshwater fish beta diversity reveals contrasting signatures of past climate changes

(2011) Fabien Leprieur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geological control of floristic composition in Amazonian forests

(2011) Mark A. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial autocorrelation analysis allows disentangling the balance between neutral and niche processes in metacommunities

(2011) José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho et al.   OIKOS

Biogeography and ecology: towards the integration of two disciplines

(2011) R. E. Ricklefs et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) K. Safi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High levels of cryptic species diversity uncovered in Amazonian frogs

(2011) W. C. Funk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A palaeobiogeographic model for biotic diversification within Amazonia over the past three million years

(2011) C. C. Ribas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Asynchronous Diversification in a Specialized Plant-Pollinator Mutualism

(2011) S. R. Ramirez et al.   SCIENCE

Origins of Biodiversity--Response

(2011) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Aquatic Biodiversity in the Amazon: Habitat Specialization and Geographic Isolation Promote Species Richness

(2011) James S. Albert et al.   Animals

A model of botanical collectors' behavior in the field: Never the same species twice

(2010) H. t. Steege et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity

(2010) Hanna Tuomisto   ECOGRAPHY

Revisiting the historical distribution of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: new insights based on palaeodistribution modelling and palynological evidencegeb

(2010) Fernanda P. Werneck et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogeography Takes a Relaxed Random Walk in Continuous Space and Time

(2010) P. Lemey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Neotropical mutualism between Acacia and Pseudomyrmex: Phylogeny and divergence times

(2010) Sandra Gómez-Acevedo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction

(2010) G. E. Shephard et al.   Nature Geoscience

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation

(2010) C. Jaramillo et al.   SCIENCE

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution and Ecology of Species Range Limits

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Sampling bias and the use of ecological niche modeling in conservation planning: a field evaluation in a biodiversity hotspot

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Influence of the Andes Mountains on South American moisture transport, convection, and precipitation

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Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon

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Late Miocene onset of the Amazon River and the Amazon deep-sea fan: Evidence from the Foz do Amazonas Basin

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Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys

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Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference

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Gradients within gradients: The mesoscale distribution patterns of palms in a central Amazonian forest

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Phylogeny, biogeography, and electric signal evolution of Neotropical knifefishes of the genus Gymnotus (Osteichthyes: Gymnotidae)

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The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

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Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

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Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution

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Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejon Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest

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Endemismo a diferentes escalas espaciales: un ejemplo con Carabidae (Coleóptera: Insecta) de América del Sur austral

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Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

(2009) A. C. Carnaval et al.   SCIENCE

Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages

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Bayesian Phylogeography Finds Its Roots

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Disintegration of the Ecological Community

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Distribution of pteridophyte communities along environmental gradients in Central Amazonia, Brazil

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USING CIRCUIT THEORY TO MODEL CONNECTIVITY IN ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND CONSERVATION

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Historical climate modelling predicts patterns of current biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

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Inferring dispersal: a Bayesian approach to phylogeny-based island biogeography, with special reference to the Canary Islands

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

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Spatial species-richness gradients across scales: a meta-analysis

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A Likelihood Framework for Estimating Phylogeographic History on a Continuous Landscape

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Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

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