[HTML][HTML] Effects of missing data on topological inference using a total evidence approach

T Guillerme, N Cooper - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
To fully understand macroevolutionary patterns and processes, we need to include both
extant and extinct species in our models. This requires phylogenetic trees with both living …

Rolling with the punches—How competition shapes the morphology of small passerines on small islands

DJ Kelly, DP O'Connell, F Ó Marcaigh… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wallacea is a global biodiversity hotspot and Sulawesi is the largest island in this
region, notable for a high proportion of endemic species. The Wakatobi archipelago, off the …

Small islands and large biogeographic barriers have driven contrasting speciation patterns in Indo-Pacific sunbirds (Aves: Nectariniidae)

F Ó Marcaigh, DJ Kelly, DP O'connell… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Birds of the Indo-Pacific have provided biologists with many foundational insights.
This study presents evidence for strong phylogeographic structure in two sunbird species …

A sympatric pair of undescribed white-eye species (Aves: Zosteropidae: Zosterops) with different origins

DP O'Connell, DJ Kelly, N Lawless… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Research in the Indo-Pacific region has contributed massively to the understanding
of speciation. White-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae: Zosterops), a lineage containing both …

Diversification of a 'great speciator'in the Wallacea region: differing responses of closely related resident and migratory kingfisher species (Aves: Alcedinidae …

DP O'Connell, DJ Kelly, N Lawless, A Karya… - Ibis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Collared Kingfisher species complex is the most widespread of the 'great
speciator'lineages of the Indo‐Pacific. They have shown a remarkable ability to spread and …

A distinct new species of Zosterops white‐eye from the Sulawesi region, Indonesia

M Irham, DM Prawiradilaga, JK Menner, DP O'Connell… - Ibis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a new species of Zosterops white‐eye, which is restricted to Wangi‐wangi, a
single island of roughly 155 km2 in the Wakatobi Archipelago, Indonesia. Informally known …

[PDF][PDF] An assessment of the avifauna of the Wakatobi Islands, south-east Sulawesi, Indonesia: species recorded and taxonomic considerations

DP O'Connell, DJ Kelly, SBA Kelly… - Raffles Bulletin of …, 2020 - academia.edu
The Wakatobi Islands are an archipelago of deep-sea islands lying off the south-east
peninsula of Sulawesi. Despite being recognised as an Important Bird Area, the avifauna of …

Increased sexual dimorphism in dense populations of Olive-backed Sunbirds on small islands: morphological niche contraction in females but not males

DP O'Connell, DJ Kelly, SBA Kelly, S Sealy… - Emu-Austral …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Competition takes place not only between species but also within them. Intersexual
competition for resources may increase sexual dimorphism in body size to minimise …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution in the understorey: the Sulawesi babbler Pellorneum celebense (Passeriformes: Pellorneidae) has diverged rapidly on land-bridge islands in the …

FO Marcaigh, DJ Kelly, DP O'Connell, D Dunleavy… - Zoologischer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropical islands hold great treasures of Earth's biodiversity, but these fragile ecosystems
may be lost before their diversity is fully catalogued or the evolutionary processes that …

Biotectonics of Sulawesi: Principles, methodology, and area relationships.

B Michaux, V Ung - Zootaxa, 2021 - europepmc.org
Biotectonics is an approach to historical biogeography based on the analysis of
independently derived biological and tectonic data, which we demonstrate using the island …