Evolutionary time drives global tetrapod diversity

Speciation gradients and the distribution of biodiversity

(2017) Dolph Schluter et al.   NATURE

Species and functional diversity accumulate differently in mammals

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

Time best explains global variation in species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals

(2016) Julie Marin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversification rates and species richness across the Tree of Life

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

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

Challenges in the estimation of extinction from molecular phylogenies: A response to Beaulieu and O'Meara

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification

(2015) S. Blair Hedges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2014) R. Alexander Pyron   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Why are there so many species in the tropics?

(2013) James H. Brown   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global moss diversity: spatial and taxonomic patterns of species richness

(2013) Jan Laurens Geffert et al.   JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

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

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

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

Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness and conservation in a biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Fernanda P. Werneck et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversification rates and the latitudinal gradient of diversity in mammals

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

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

(2012) Walter Jetz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Global species-energy relationship in forest plots: role of abundance, temperature and species climatic tolerances

(2011) Irena Šímová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Relative effects of time for speciation and tropical niche conservatism on the latitudinal diversity gradient of phyllostomid bats

(2011) R. D. Stevens   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic Inference of Reciprocal Effects between Geographic Range Evolution and Diversification

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

More than “More Individuals”: The Nonequivalence of Area and Energy in the Scaling of Species Richness

(2010) Allen H. Hurlbert et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

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

Deconstructing the mammal species richness pattern in Europe - towards an understanding of the relative importance of climate, biogeographic history, habitat heterogeneity and humans

(2010) Camilla Fløjgaard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION