Ecological and community‐wide character displacement: the next generation

T Dayan, D Simberloff - Ecology letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological character displacement, mostly seen as increased differences of size in sympatry
between closely‐related or similar species, is a focal hypothesis assuming that species too …

The resurrection of oceanic dispersal in historical biogeography

A De Queiroz - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2005 - cell.com
Geographical distributions of terrestrial or freshwater taxa that are broken up by oceans can
be explained by either oceanic dispersal or vicariance in the form of fragmentation of a …

[HTML][HTML] Species list of the European herpetofauna–2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

J Speybroeck, W Beukema, C Dufresnes, U Fritz… - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2020 - brill.com
The last species list of the European herpetofauna was published by Speybroeck, Beukema
and Crochet (2010). In the meantime, ongoing research led to numerous taxonomic …

The ecology of rafting in the marine environment. II. The rafting organisms and community

M Thiel, L Gutow - Oceanography and marine biology, 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Larrondo 1281, Coquimbo,
ChileCentro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Coquimbo, Chile* E-mail …

Has vicariance or dispersal been the predominant biogeographic force in Madagascar? Only time will tell

AD Yoder, MD Nowak - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Madagascar is one of the world's hottest biodiversity hot spots due to its diverse, endemic,
and highly threatened biota. This biota shows a distinct signature of evolution in isolation …

[HTML][HTML] Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera

EN Arnold, O Arribas, S Carranza - Zootaxa, 2007 - biotaxa.org
DNA sequence indicates the Lacertidae contain two subfamilies, Gallotiinae and Lacertinae,
the latter comprising two monophyletic tribes, the Eremiadini of Africa and arid southwest …

Evolution on oceanic islands: molecular phylogenetic approaches to understanding pattern and process

BC Emerson - Molecular ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
By their very nature oceanic island ecosystems offer great opportunities for the study of
evolution and have for a long time been recognized as natural laboratories for studying …

Macaronesia as a fruitful arena for ecology, evolution, and conservation biology

M Florencio, J Patiño, S Nogué, A Traveset… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research in Macaronesia has led to substantial advances in ecology, evolution and
conservation biology. We review the scientific developments achieved in this region, and …

Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)

MEH Jones, CL Anderson, CA Hipsley, J Müller… - BMC evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, tuatara) is a globally distributed and ecologically
important group of over 9,000 reptile species. The earliest fossil records are currently …

Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) elucidated using mitochondrial DNA sequences

S Carranza, EN Arnold - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2006 - Elsevier
With more than 80 species inhabiting all warm continental land masses and hundreds of
intervening continental and oceanic islands, Hemidactylus geckos are one of the most …