A goal of phylogeography is to relate patterns of genetic differentiation to potential historical
geographic isolating events. Quaternary glaciations, particularly the one culminating in the …

This review summarises the current knowledge on cryptic species of polychaetes, one of the
most dominant taxa in marine communities, and gives a brief overview of the different …

Background Although polychaetes are one of the dominant taxa in marine communities,
their distributions and taxonomic diversity are poorly understood. Recent studies have …

Earthworms play a major role in many aspects of soil fertility, food web ecology and
ecosystem functioning, and hence are frequently the subjects of, for example, ecological and …

Open‐ocean environments provide few obvious barriers to the dispersal of marine
organisms. Major currents and/or environmental gradients potentially impede gene flow …

Background Comparative phylogeography enables the study of historical and evolutionary
processes that have contributed to sha** patterns of contemporary genetic diversity …

Studies examining population structure and genetic diversity of benthic marine invertebrates
in the Southern Ocean have emerged in recent years. However, many taxonomic groups …

Eurythoe complanata (Pallas 1766) has been considered a cosmopolitan species with a
great morphological similarity across its geographic range. To elucidate whether E …

The North Atlantic intertidal gastropod, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792), exhibits extreme
morphological variation between and within geographic regions and has become a model …

Climate change exposes benthic species populations in coastal ecosystems to a
combination of different stressors (eg, warming, acidification and eutrophication) …