Ecology and historical (phylogeny-based) biogeography have much to offer one another, but
exchanges between these fields have been limited. Historical biogeography has become …

Regional phylogeographical studies involving co‐distributed animal and plant species have
been conducted for several areas, most notably for Europe and the Pacific Northwest of …

This book is both a manual for the computer program MacClade, describing its features and
potential uses, as well as a portrayal of a phylogenetic approach to studying diversity and …

We examine evidence for the structuring of fish communities from stream and lake systems
and the roles of biotic, abiotic, and spatial factors in determining the species composition …

The long-awaited revision of the industry standard on phylogenetics Since the publication of
the first edition of this landmark volume more than twenty-five years ago, phylogenetic …

Evolutionary biologists have often suggested that ecology is important in speciation, in that
natural selection may drive adaptive divergence between lineages that inhabit different …

Subspecies have been considered artificial subdivisions of species, pattern classes, or
incipient species. However, with more data and modern phylogenetic techniques, some …

No question in theoretical biology has been more perennially controversial or perplexing
than" What is a species?" Recent advances in phylogenetic theory have called into question …

The five basic historical biogeographic methods are: dispersalism, phylogenetic
biogeography, panbiogeography, cladistic biogeography, and parsimony analysis of …

Widespread evidence shows that the modern rates of extinction in many plants and animals
exceed background rates in the fossil record. In the present article, I investigate this issue …