Estimating diversification rates for higher taxa: BAMM can give problematic estimates of rates and rate shifts

Diversification rates are more strongly related to microhabitat than climate in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)

(2017) Melissa Bars-Closel et al.   EVOLUTION

Is BAMM Flawed? Theoretical and Practical Concerns in the Analysis of Multi-Rate Diversification Models

(2017) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Herbivory Promotes Dental Disparification and Macroevolutionary Dynamics in Grunters (Teleostei: Terapontidae), a Freshwater Adaptive Radiation

(2016) Aaron M. Davis et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Widespread correlations between climatic niche evolution and species diversification in birds

(2016) Christopher R. Cooney et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Explaining global-scale diversification patterns in actinopterygian fishes

(2016) Pablo A. Tedesco et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The origin of species richness patterns along environmental gradients: uniting explanations based on time, diversification rate and carrying capacity

(2016) Mikael Pontarp et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity-dependent cladogenesis throughout western Mexico: Evolutionary biogeography of rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalinae: Crotalus and Sistrurus )

(2016) Christopher Blair et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Critically evaluating the theory and performance of Bayesian analysis of macroevolutionary mixtures

(2016) Brian R. Moore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversification rates and species richness across the Tree of Life

(2016) Joshua P. Scholl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Testing the Relationships between Diversification, Species Richness, and Trait Evolution

(2016) Kenneth H. Kozak et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

How Well Can We Detect Lineage-Specific Diversification-Rate Shifts? A Simulation Study of Sequential AIC Methods

(2016) Michael R. May et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The great American biotic interchange and diversification history inDynastesbeetles (Scarabaeidae; Dynastinae)

(2016) Jen-Pan Huang   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Adaptive radiations in butterflies: evolutionary history of the genusErebia(Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

(2015) Carlos Peña et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity

(2015) John J. Wiens   Biology Letters

Faster diversification on land than sea helps explain global biodiversity patterns among habitats and animal phyla

(2015) John J. Wiens   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Bricklebush (Brickellia) phylogeny reveals dimensions of the great Asteraceae radiation in Mexico

(2015) Edward E. Schilling et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic investigation of the complex evolutionary history of dispersal mode and diversification rates across living and fossil Fagales

(2015) Kathryn Larson-Johnson   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Independent evolution of the sexes promotes amphibian diversification

(2015) S. P. De Lisle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Size is not everything: rates of genome size evolution, notC-value, correlate with speciation in angiosperms

(2015) Mark N. Puttick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Robust Semi-Parametric Test for Detecting Trait-Dependent Diversification

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Herbivory increases diversification across insect clades

(2015) John J. Wiens et al.   Nature Communications

On Age and Species Richness of Higher Taxa

(2014) Tanja Stadler et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

(2014) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Is diversification rate related to climatic niche width?

(2014) Carola Gómez-Rodríguez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

Defense mutualisms enhance plant diversification

(2014) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2014) Jonathan Rolland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Macroevolutionary speciation rates are decoupled from the evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in Drosophila and birds

(2013) D. L. Rabosky 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

Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification

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

Clade Age and Species Richness Are Decoupled Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life

(2012) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ARE CORRELATED WITH SPECIES RICHNESS IN SALAMANDERS

(2011) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   EVOLUTION

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification

(2010) Kenneth H. Kozak et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Primary Controls on Species Richness in Higher Taxa

(2010) Daniel L. Rabosky   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

(2009) M. E. Alfaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?

(2009) D. C. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES