This paper and this issue attempt to address how, when and why the phenomenal c.
100,000 species of seed plants in tropical America (the Neotropics) arose. It is increasingly …

This chapter reviews three types of temperature responses of seaweeds that take place over
different timescales: short-term physiological regulation (seconds to minutes), phenotypic …

Phylogenetic studies of geographic range evolution are increasingly using statistical model
selection methods to choose among variants of the dispersal‐extinction‐cladogenesis …

Founder-event speciation, where a rare jump dispersal event founds a new genetically
isolated lineage, has long been considered crucial by many historical biogeographers, but …

Historical biogeography has a diversity of methods for inferring ancestral geographic ranges
on phylogenies, but many of the methods have conflicting assumptions, and there is no …

Historical biogeography is increasingly studied from an explicitly statistical perspective,
using stochastic models to describe the evolution of species range as a continuous-time …

In historical biogeography, model-based inference methods for reconstructing the evolution
of geographic ranges on phylogenetic trees are poorly developed relative to the diversity of …

Geographic characters—traits describing the spatial distribution of a species—may both
affect and be affected by processes associated with lineage birth and death. This is …

Replicate radiations provide powerful comparative systems to address questions about the
interplay between opportunity and innovation in driving episodes of diversification and the …

The increased availability of spatial data and methodological developments in species
distribution modelling has lead to concurrent advances in phylogeography, broadening the …