Biotic interchange has structured Western Hemisphere mammal communities

Species and functional diversity accumulate differently in mammals

(2016) Brunno F. Oliveira et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals

(2016) Silvia Pineda-Munoz et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Strong influence of palaeoclimate on the structure of modern African mammal communities

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Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity

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

Modeling Species and Community Responses to Past, Present, and Future Episodes of Climatic and Ecological Change

(2015) Kaitlin C. Maguire et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Macroevolution and climate change influence phylogenetic community assembly of North American hoofed mammals

(2015) Danielle Fraser 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

Relative roles of ecological and energetic constraints, diversification rates and region history on global species richness gradients

(2015) Jonathan Belmaker 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

Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

(2015) S. Kathleen Lyons et al.   NATURE

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

Environmental harshness, latitude and incipient speciation

(2014) Jason T. Weir   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mean Annual Precipitation Explains Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cenozoic Mammal Beta Diversity and Latitudinal Diversity Gradients in North America

(2014) Danielle Fraser et al.   PLoS One

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2014) C. Lamanna 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

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

(2014) Jonathan Rolland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The biogeographic history of ruminant faunas determines the phylogenetic structure of their assemblages at different scales

(2013) Juan L. Cantalapiedra et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

(2013) Marc Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Latitudinal gradients in phylogenetic relatedness of angiosperm trees in North America

(2013) Hong Qian et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

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

Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis

(2013) Gene Hunt   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Two new graphical methods for mapping trait evolution on phylogenies

(2013) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Imprint of Cenozoic Migrations and Evolutionary History on the Biogeographic Gradient of Body Size in New World Mammals

(2012) Ignacio Morales-Castilla et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Extinctions, traits and phylogenetic community structure: insights from primate assemblages in Madagascar

(2012) Onja H. Razafindratsima et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics

(2012) Pedro R. Peres-Neto et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Dispersal ability modulates the strength of the latitudinal richness gradient in European beetles

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global Gradients in Vertebrate Diversity Predicted by Historical Area-Productivity Dynamics and Contemporary Environment

(2012) Walter Jetz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2011) P. J. Rose et al.   GEOLOGY

Climatic history and dispersal ability explain the relative importance of turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2011) Ricardo Dobrovolski et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

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

Phylogenetic structure of mammal assemblages at large geographical scales: linking phylogenetic community ecology with macroecology

(2011) M. Cardillo   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Species Turnover along Abiotic and Biotic Gradients: Patterns in Space Equal Patterns in Time?

(2010) Janne Soininen   BIOSCIENCE

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climatic control of dispersal-ecological specialization trade-offs: a metacommunity process at the heart of the latitudinal diversity gradient?

(2010) Merlijn Jocque et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Great American Biotic Interchange: Dispersals, Tectonics, Climate, Sea Level and Holding Pens

(2010) Michael O. Woodburne   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction

(2010) Walton A. Green et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Evolutionary diversification, coevolution between populations and their antagonists, and the filling of niche space

(2010) R. E. Ricklefs   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic diversity does not capture body size variation at risk in the world's mammals

(2010) S. A. Fritz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

(2010) L. B. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disruptive Selection in Natural Populations: The Roles of Ecological Specialization and Resource Competition

(2009) Ryan A. Martin et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests

(2009) Steven W. Kembel   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Applied Climate-Change Analysis: The Climate Wizard Tool

(2009) Evan H. Girvetz et al.   PLoS One

The Ecological Dynamics of Clade Diversification and Community Assembly

(2008) Mark A. McPeek   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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