Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Background Understanding the distribution of marine biodiversity is a crucial first step
towards the effective and sustainable management of marine ecosystems. Recent efforts to …

Aim Many important patterns and processes vary across the phylogeny and depend on
phylogenetic scale. Nonetheless, phylogenetic scale has never been formally …

A prominent hypothesis in ecology is that larger species ranges are found in more variable
climates because species develop broader environmental tolerances, predicting a positive …

This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive
competition for scarabaeine dung beetles. As well as giving us insight into the private lives …

Predictions of how different facets of biodiversity decline with habitat loss are broadly
needed, yet challenging. Here we provide theory and a global empirical evaluation to …

Range size is a universal characteristic of every biological species, and is often assumed to
affect diversification rate. There are strong theoretical arguments that large-ranged species …

Aim Tropical species are thought to experience and be adapted to narrow ranges of abiotic
conditions. This idea has been invoked to explain a broad array of biological phenomena …

The trend of increasing latitudinal range sizes of species towards higher latitudes, known as
Rapoport's Rule, has been highly controversial in the literature since it was first proposed by …

Aim Elevational R apoport's rule, proposed in 1992 by S tevens, predicts that species ranges
on mountains become larger in elevational extent with increasing elevation. Here we test …