The generalism–specialism debate: the role of generalists in the life and death of species

RLH Dennis, L Dapporto, S Fattorini… - Biological Journal of …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Specialisms on resources and for niches, leading to specialization, have been construed to
be tantamount to speciation and vice versa, while the occurrence of true generalism in …

The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages for West Palearctic butterflies

L Dapporto, M Menchetti, V Dincă, G Talavera… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
The interplay between geographic barriers and climatic oscillations over the past 2.6 million
years structured genetic variation at the continental scale. The genetic legacy of the …

A combined genetic‐morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina Common Blue butterflies

V Dincă, L Dapporto, R Vila - Molecular Ecology, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Widespread species have the potential to reveal large‐scale biogeographical patterns, as
well as responses to environmental changes possibly unique to habitat generalists. This …

Speciation in Mediterranean refugia and post‐glacial expansion of Zerynthia polyxena (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

L Dapporto - Journal of zoological Systematics and evolutionary …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Migration of populations to and from glacial refugia is responsible for various cases of
speciation and subspeciation in Europe. The pattern of distribution and the degree of …

Evolutionary history of the Maltese wall lizard Podarcis filfolensis: insights on the 'Expansion–Contraction' model of Pleistocene biogeography

D Salvi, PJ Schembri, A Sciberras… - Molecular …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The expansion–contraction (EC) model predicts demographic and range contraction of
temperate species during Pleistocene glaciations as a consequence of climate‐related …

Nestedness in island faunas: novel insights into island biogeography through butterfly community profiles of colonization ability and migration capacity

RLH Dennis, PB Hardy, L Dapporto - Journal of Biogeography, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim To relate variation in the migration capacity and colonization ability of island
communities to island geography and species island occupancy. Location Islands off …

Inter-and intraspecific variation in the genitalia of the 'Melitaea phoebe group'(Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

JP Tóth, Z Varga - Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The ecology and phylogeny of the Melitaeini butterflies have received considerable attention
in the last few years. Several publications have been based on research using molecular …

Spatial distributions of European Tenebrionidae point to multiple postglacial colonization trajectories

S Fattorini, W Ulrich - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Many studies have found that species richness in the Western Palaearctic follows a
latitudinal trend, yet the importance of geographical and ecological factors in sha** …

The biogeography of the western Mediterranean: elucidating contradictory distribution patterns of differentiation in Maniola jurtina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

L Dapporto, JC Habel, RLH Dennis… - Biological Journal of …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
In the western Palaearctic, the Mediterranean zone is an important region where taxa and
genes of thermophilous organisms are preserved during glacial stages and new clades are …

Geographical patterns of butterfly species diversity in the subtropical Ryukyu Islands: The importance of a unidirectional filter between two source islands

T Hirao, Y Kubota, M Murakami - Journal of Biogeography, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine the roles of geohistorical and ecological factors in the development of
butterfly assemblages on continental islands with multiple source pools. Location The …