Temperate extinction in squamate reptiles and the roots of latitudinal diversity gradients

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

(2014) Jonathan Rolland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles

(2013) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

WHAT CAN MULTIPLE PHYLOGENIES SAY ABOUT THE LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT? A NEW LOOK AT THE TROPICAL CONSERVATISM, OUT OF THE TROPICS, AND DIVERSIFICATION RATE HYPOTHESES

(2013) Roland Jansson et al.   EVOLUTION

The evolution of viviparity opens opportunities for lizard radiation but drives it into a climatic cul-de-sac

(2013) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Phylogenetic estimates of speciation and extinction rates for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses

(2013) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

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

Is regional species diversity bounded or unbounded?

(2012) Howard V. Cornell   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

An asymmetry in niche conservatism contributes to the latitudinal species diversity gradient in New World vertebrates

(2012) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Diversification rates and the latitudinal gradient of diversity in mammals

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

Evidence for determinism in species diversification and contingency in phenotypic evolution during adaptive radiation

(2012) F. T. Burbrink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R

(2012) Richard G. FitzJohn   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2012) Walter Jetz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

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

Phylogenetic origins of local-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonian megadiversity

(2011) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EXTINCTION, ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY, AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL SNAKE DIVERSITY

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   EVOLUTION

Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

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

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

Phylogenetic Inference of Reciprocal Effects between Geographic Range Evolution and Diversification

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

Quantitative Traits and Diversification

(2010) Richard G. FitzJohn   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

LIVE-BIRTH IN VIPERS (VIPERIDAE) IS A KEY INNOVATION AND ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL COOLING DURING THE CENOZOIC

(2009) Vincent J. Lynch   EVOLUTION

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

(2009) John J. Wiens et al.   EVOLUTION

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Density-dependent diversification in North American wood warblers

(2008) D. L Rabosky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES