Environmental niche conservatism explains the accumulation of species richness in Mediterranean-hotspot plant genera

Functional Traits in Parallel Evolutionary Radiations and Trait-Environment Associations in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

(2015) Nora Mitchell et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Do Mediterranean-type ecosystems have a common history?-Insights from the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae)

(2015) Renske E. Onstein et al.   EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic niche conservatism - common pitfalls and ways forward

(2015) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic patterns in the geographic distributions of birds support the tropical conservatism hypothesis

(2015) David A. Duchêne et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The causes of southern African spatial patterns in species richness: speciation, extinction and dispersal in the Danthonioideae (Poaceae)

(2015) H. Peter Linder et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

(2015) Stephen D. Hopper et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Variation in plant diversity in mediterranean-climate ecosystems: the role of climatic and topographical stability

(2014) Richard M. Cowling et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic niche breadth and species richness in temperate treefrogs

(2014) Zachary A. Chejanovski et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Presence in Mediterranean hotspots and floral symmetry affect speciation and extinction rates in Proteaceae

(2014) Elisabeth Reyes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Three explanations for biodiversity hotspots: small range size, geographical overlap and time for species accumulation. An Australian case study

(2014) Lyn G. Cook et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolution of a hotspot genus: geographic variation in speciation and extinction rates in Banksia (Proteaceae)

(2013) Marcel Cardillo et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Explaining Andean megadiversity: the evolutionary and ecological causes of glassfrog elevational richness patterns

(2013) Carl R. Hutter et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

DIVERSITY AND NICHE EVOLUTION ALONG ARIDITY GRADIENTS IN NORTH AMERICAN LIZARDS (PHRYNOSOMATIDAE)

(2013) John J. Wiens et al.   EVOLUTION

Adaptive responses to directional trait selection in the Miocene enabled Cape proteas to colonize the savanna grasslands

(2013) Byron B. Lamont et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Contrasting evolutionary hypotheses between two mediterranean-climate floristic hotspots: the Cape of southern Africa and the Mediterranean Basin

(2013) Luis M. Valente et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

HOW IS THE RATE OF CLIMATIC-NICHE EVOLUTION RELATED TO CLIMATIC-NICHE BREADTH?

(2012) M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid et al.   EVOLUTION

MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION

(2012) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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

Climatic niche evolution and species diversification in the Cape flora, South Africa

(2012) Jan Schnitzler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The effect of historical legacy on adaptation: do closely related species respond to the environment in the same way?

(2012) R. PRUNIER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Causes Of Species Richness Patterns Across Space, Time, And Clades And The Role Of “Ecological Limits”

(2011) John J. Wiens   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Causes of Plant Diversification in the Cape Biodiversity Hotspot of South Africa

(2011) Jan Schnitzler et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

CliMond: global high-resolution historical and future scenario climate surfaces for bioclimatic modelling

(2011) Darren J. Kriticos et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

PLANT RESPONSES TO CLIMATE IN THE CAPE FLORISTIC REGION OF SOUTH AFRICA: EVIDENCE FOR ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE PROTEACEAE

(2010) Jane E. Carlson et al.   EVOLUTION

The Role of Propagule Pressure in Biological Invasions

(2009) Daniel Simberloff   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

DIVERSIFICATION OF THE AFRICAN GENUSPROTEA(PROTEACEAE) IN THE CAPE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT AND BEYOND: EQUAL RATES IN DIFFERENT BIOMES

(2009) Luis M. Valente et al.   EVOLUTION

Climate and history explain the species richness peak at mid-elevation forSchizothoraxfishes (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) distributed in the Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent regions

(2009) Jun Li et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

(2009) Stephen D. Hopper   PLANT AND SOIL

Origin and diversification of the Greater Cape flora: Ancient species repository, hot-bed of recent radiation, or both?

(2008) G. Anthony Verboom et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspots

(2008) H. Sauquet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA