Ecological opportunity–through entry into a new environment, the origin of a key innovation
or extinction of antagonists–is widely thought to link ecological population dynamics to …

The impact of human activity is evident in the depletion of fish populations worldwide. This
being the case, there is an urgent need to discover the true biodiversity of the world before …

Comparative methods used to study patterns of evolutionary change in a continuous trait on
a phylogeny range from Brownian motion processes to models where the trait is assumed to …

Many evolutionary biologists are concerned with the tremendous amount of diversity of
species, and their phenotypes, that we can currently observe in nature, and one of the most …

We present mvmorph, a package of multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods for the r
statistical environment. mvmorph is freely available on the cran package repository …

Modern phylogenetic comparative biology uses data from the relationships between species
(phylogeny) combined with comparative information for phenotypic traits to draw model …

Quantifying phenotypic evolutionary rates and their variation across phylogenetic trees is a
major issue in evolutionary biology. A number of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM …

Some major evolutionary theories predict a relationship between rates of proliferation of new
species (species diversification) and rates of morphological divergence between them …

Many questions in evolutionary biology require the quantification and comparison of rates of
phenotypic evolution. Recently, phylogenetic comparative methods have been developed …

Evolutionary radiations on continents are less well-understood and appreciated than those
occurring on islands. The extent of ecological influence on species divergence can be …