Ancient tropical extinctions at high latitudes contributed to the latitudinal diversity gradient

Early Cenozoic evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2020) J. Alistair Crame   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climatic shifts drove major contractions in avian latitudinal distributions throughout the Cenozoic

(2019) Erin E. Saupe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal palaeodiversity patterns of modern crocodiles (Crocodyliformes: Eusuchia)

(2019) Ane De Celis et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework

(2019) Daniele Silvestro et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Spatio-temporal climate change contributes to latitudinal diversity gradients

(2019) Erin E. Saupe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Reconstructing deep-time palaeoclimate legacies in the clusioid Malpighiales unveils their role in the evolution and extinction of the boreotropical flora

(2018) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Roles of climate niche conservatism and range dynamics in woody plant diversity patterns through the Cenozoic

(2018) Takayuki Shiono et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Testing the Role of the Red Queen and Court Jester as Drivers of the Macroevolution of Apollo Butterflies

(2018) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

How Well Can We Estimate Diversity Dynamics for Clades in Diversity Decline?

(2018) Gustavo Burin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

(2018) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

Climate change and the latitudinal selectivity of ancient marine extinctions

(2018) Carl J. Reddin et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Stochastic character mapping of state-dependent diversification reveals the tempo of evolutionary decline in self-compatible Onagraceae lineages

(2018) William A Freyman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates

(2018) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines)

(2017) H. Bradley Shaffer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles

(2017) Anieli G. Pereira et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The evolution of climatic niches in squamate reptiles

(2017) Marcio R. Pie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Olson's Extinction and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient of tetrapods in the Permian

(2017) Neil Brocklehurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The early Eocene birds of the Messel fossil site: a 48 million-year-old bird community adds a temporal perspective to the evolution of tropical avifaunas

(2016) Gerald Mayr   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles

(2016) Walter G. Joyce et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Extinction as a driver of avian latitudinal diversity gradients

(2016) Paola Pulido-Santacruz et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolutionary processes underlying latitudinal differences in reef fish biodiversity

(2016) Alexandre C. Siqueira et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecological opportunities, habitat, and past climatic fluctuations influenced the diversification of modern turtles

(2016) João Fabrício Mota Rodrigues et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The impact of Cenozoic cooling on assemblage diversity in planktonic foraminifera

(2016) Isabel S. Fenton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Late Cenozoic onset of the latitudinal diversity gradient of North American mammals

(2016) Jonathan D. Marcot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling the climatic niche of turtles: a deep-time perspective

(2016) Amy M. Waterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics

(2016) Fabien Leprieur et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2016) Isabel Sanmartín et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Latitudinal diversity gradients in Mesozoic non-marine turtles

(2016) David B. Nicholson et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Climate-driven extinctions shape the phylogenetic structure of temperate tree floras

(2015) Wolf L. Eiserhardt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dispersal is a major driver of the latitudinal diversity gradient of Carnivora

(2015) Jonathan Rolland et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Do turtles follow the rules? Latitudinal gradients in species richness, body size, and geographic range area of the world's turtles

(2015) Kenneth D. Angielczyk et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperate radiations and dying embers of a tropical past: the diversification ofViburnum

(2015) Elizabeth L. Spriggs et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fossils, phylogenies, and the challenge of preserving evolutionary history in the face of anthropogenic extinctions

(2015) Danwei Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

(2015) Philip D. Mannion et al.   Nature Communications

Climate-mediated diversification of turtles in the Cretaceous

(2015) David B. Nicholson et al.   Nature Communications

Late Oligocene ambient temperatures reconstructed by stable isotope analysis of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate fossils of Enspel, Germany

(2015) Thomas Tütken et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

An Overview of the South American Fossil Squamates

(2014) Adriana María Albino et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

FOSSILS AND A LARGE MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY SHOW THAT THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES RICHNESS, GENERIC DIVERSITY, AND TURNOVER RATES ARE DISCONNECTED

(2014) Yaowu Xing et al.   EVOLUTION

Temperate extinction in squamate reptiles and the roots of latitudinal diversity gradients

(2014) R. Alexander Pyron   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis

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

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Faster Speciation and Reduced Extinction in the Tropics Contribute to the Mammalian Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

(2014) Jonathan Rolland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Fossil Record of Plant-Insect Dynamics

(2013) Conrad C. Labandeira et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Exploring power and parameter estimation of the BiSSE method for analyzing species diversification

(2013) Matthew P Davis et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

WHAT CAN MULTIPLE PHYLOGENIES SAY ABOUT THE LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT? A NEW LOOK AT THE TROPICAL CONSERVATISM, OUT OF THE TROPICS, AND DIVERSIFICATION RATE HYPOTHESES

(2013) Roland Jansson et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change

(2013) Deyan Ge et al.   PLoS One

Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient

(2013) D. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

(2013) C. N. Jenkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

(2013) R. A. Pyron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive

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

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

(2013) Philip D. Mannion et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

What causes latitudinal gradients in species diversity? Evolutionary processes and ecological constraints on swallowtail biodiversity

(2012) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cretaceous forest composition and productivity inferred from a global fossil wood database

(2012) Emiliano Peralta-Medina et al.   GEOLOGY

Life on a tropical planet: niche conservatism and the global diversity gradient

(2012) Tom S. Romdal et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The latitudinal position of peak marine diversity in living and fossil biotas

(2012) Matthew G. Powell et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonality, montane beta diversity, and Eocene insects: Testing Janzen's dispersal hypothesis in an equable world

(2012) S. Bruce Archibald et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Hemisphere-scale differences in conifer evolutionary dynamics

(2012) A. B. Leslie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R

(2012) Richard G. FitzJohn   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles

(2011) A. L. Jaffe et al.   Biology Letters

A TIME-CALIBRATED SPECIES TREE OF CROCODYLIA REVEALS A RECENT RADIATION OF THE TRUE CROCODILES

(2011) Jamie R. Oaks   EVOLUTION

Flat latitudinal gradient in Paleocene mammal richness suggests decoupling of climate and biodiversity

(2011) P. J. Rose et al.   GEOLOGY

A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning

(2011) Philip D. Mannion et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Inference of Reciprocal Effects between Geographic Range Evolution and Diversification

(2011) Emma E. Goldberg et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Early Eocene plant diversity and dynamics in the Falkland flora, Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada

(2011) Robin Y. Smith et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects

(2010) S. Bruce Archibald et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Mammalian Response to Cenozoic Climatic Change

(2009) Jessica L. Blois et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

(2009) Robert R. Dunn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference

(2009) Richard H. Ree et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Taking into account phylogenetic and divergence-time uncertainty in a parametric biogeographical analysis of the Northern Hemisphere plant clade Caprifolieae

(2009) Stephen A. Smith   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Estimating Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Rates from Incompletely Resolved Phylogenies

(2009) Richard G. FitzJohn et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity

(2008) M. J. Donoghue   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates

(2008) J. Alroy et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY