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Climatic niche breadth and species richness in temperate treefrogs

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Beyond aridification: multiple explanations for the elevated diversification of cacti in the New World Succulent Biome

(2014) Tania Hernández-Hernández et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) L. Palazzesi et al.   Nature Communications

Developmental mode influences diversification in ascidians

(2013) M. E. Maliska et al.   Biology Letters

Dispersal modes affect tropical forest assembly across trophic levels

(2013) Lydia Beaudrot et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

Niche breadth predicts geographical range size: a general ecological pattern

(2013) Rachel A. Slatyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2013) John J. Wiens et al.   EVOLUTION

SYNDROME-DRIVEN DIVERSIFICATION IN A MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM

(2013) Miguel Verdú et al.   EVOLUTION

Is self-fertilization an evolutionary dead end?

(2013) Boris Igic et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

As Old as the Hills: Montane Scorpions in Southwestern North America Reveal Ancient Associations between Biotic Diversification and Landscape History

(2013) Robert W. Bryson et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeographic Evidence for a Link of Species Divergence of Ephedra in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Regions to the Miocene Asian Aridification

(2013) Ai-Li Qin et al.   PLoS One

Explaining the distribution of breeding and dispersal syndromes in conifers

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

The latitudinal gradient in dispersal constraints: ecological specialisation drives diversification in tropical birds

(2012) Claire L. Salisbury et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a more mechanistic understanding of traits and range sizes

(2012) Irina Laube et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversification in North American arid lands: Niche conservatism, divergence and expansion of habitat explain speciation in the genus Ephedra

(2012) Israel Loera et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mutualism with Plants Drives Primate Diversification

(2012) José M. Gómez et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Fossil pollen records reveal a late rise of open-habitat ecosystems in Patagonia

(2012) Luis Palazzesi et al.   Nature Communications

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Limitations of Phylogenies in Comparative Biology

(2011) Jonathan B. Losos   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A Comparison of Frugivory and Scatter-Hoarding Seed-Dispersal Syndromes

(2011) Stephen B. Vander Wall et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

(2011) Paula Arribas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Historical biogeography of the arid-adapted velvet ant Sphaeropthalma arota (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) reveals cryptic species

(2011) Joseph S. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests

(2011) Tiina Särkinen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fleshy fruit characteristics in a temperate deciduous forest of Japan: how unique are they?

(2011) Takashi Masaki et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages

(2011) M. Arakaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates

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

High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds

(2011) S. Claramunt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2011) Jan Schnitzler et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Inference of Reciprocal Effects between Geographic Range Evolution and Diversification

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

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

A molecular phylogenetic study of theEphedra distachya / E. sinicacomplex in Eurasia

(2011) Nobuko Kakiuchi et al.   Willdenowia

Speciation Has a Spatial Scale That Depends on Levels of Gene Flow

(2010) Yael Kisel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Phylogeographic analysis of the nocturnal velvet ant genus Dilophotopsis (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) provides insights into diversification in the Nearctic deserts

(2010) JOSEPH S. WILSON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The female reproductive unit of Ephedra (Gnetales): comparative morphology and evolutionary perspectives

(2010) CATARINA RYDIN et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SERPENTINE ENDEMISM IN THE CALIFORNIA FLORA

(2010) Brian L. Anacker et al.   EVOLUTION

EFFECTS OF GASTEROID FRUITING BODY MORPHOLOGY ON DIVERSIFICATION RATES IN THREE INDEPENDENT CLADES OF FUNGI ESTIMATED USING BINARY STATE SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION ANALYSIS

(2010) Andrew W. Wilson et al.   EVOLUTION

Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents in arid environments

(2010) Maurie J. Beck et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Diversification and biogeography of Juniperus (Cupressaceae): variable diversification rates and multiple intercontinental dispersals

(2010) Kangshan Mao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Illuminating the lack of consensus among descriptions of earth history data in the North American deserts: A resource for biologists

(2010) Joseph S. Wilson et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

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

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution and Ecology of Species Range Limits

(2009) Jason P. Sexton et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evolution of seed dispersal in North American Ephedra

(2009) Jennifer L. Hollander et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Evolutionary Relationships in Ephedra (Gnetales), with Implications for Seed Plant Phylogeny

(2009) Catarina Rydin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Dispersal Syndromes in North American Ephedra

(2009) Jennifer L. Hollander et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

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

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

Evolution of the Madrean-Tethyan disjunctions and the North and South American amphitropical disjunctions in plants

(2009) Jun WEN et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

A fossil-calibrated relaxed clock forEphedraindicates an Oligocene age for the divergence of Asian and New World clades and Miocene dispersal into South America

(2009) Stefanie M. ICKERT-BOND et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Climate, Niche Evolution, and Diversification of the “Bird‐Cage” Evening Primroses (Oenothera, Sections Anogra and Kleinia)

(2008) Margaret E. K. Evans et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

(2008) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE