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

Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity

(2015) John J. Wiens   Biology Letters

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets

(2014) Robert Lanfear et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2014) Jonathan Rolland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Molecular Timetrees Reveal a Cambrian Colonization of Land and a New Scenario for Ecdysozoan Evolution

(2013) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   CURRENT 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

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

Animal biodiversity: An update of classification and diversity in 2013. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

(2013) Zhi-Qiang Zhang   ZOOTAXA

The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity

(2012) Ward Appeltans et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Biodiversity in water and on land

(2012) Richard K. Grosberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

(2012) P. Kenrick et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversification rates and the latitudinal gradient of diversity in mammals

(2012) V. Soria-Carrasco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why are there so few fish in the sea?

(2012) G. Carrete Vega et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2012) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   PLOS 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

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting Total Global Species Richness Using Rates of Species Description and Estimates of Taxonomic Effort

(2011) Mark J. Costello et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Niche Conservatism Drives Elevational Diversity Patterns in Appalachian Salamanders

(2010) Kenneth H. Kozak et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology

(2010) David I. Warton et al.   ECOLOGY

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

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

The Great Divergence: When Did Diversity on Land Exceed That in the Sea?

(2010) G. J. Vermeij et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic comparative approaches for studying niche conservatism

(2010) N. COOPER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY 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

EVOLUTIONARY AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF HIGH TROPICAL DIVERSITY IN OLD WORLD FROGS (RANIDAE)

(2009) John J. Wiens et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE