Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

Current global patterns of biodiversity result from processes that operate over both space
and time and thus require an integrated macroecological and macroevolutionary …

Summary The tropical Andes of South America, the world's richest biodiversity hotspot, are
home to many rapid radiations. While geological, climatic, and ecological processes …

Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however,
assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations …

This article provides morphological descriptions and illustrations of microfungi associated
with the invasive weed, Chromolaena odorata, which were mainly collected in northern …

Estimating rates of speciation and extinction, and understanding how and why they vary
over evolutionary time, geographical space and species groups, is a key to understanding …

How individual species and entire ecosystems will respond to future climate change are
among the most pressing questions facing ecologists. Past biodiversity dynamics recorded …

Explaining variation in species richness among provinces and other large geographic
regions remains one of the most challenging problems at the intersection of ecology and …

Studies of phylogenetic diversification often show evidence for slowdowns in diversification
rates over the history of clades. Recent studies seeking biological explanations for this …