Owing to their taxonomic, phenotypic, ecological and behavioural diversity and propensity
for explosive diversification, the assemblages of cichlid fish in the East African Great Lakes …

Global patterns of biodiversity are influenced by spatial and environmental variations in the
rate at which new species form. We relate variations in speciation rates to six key patterns of …

Far more species of organisms are found in the tropics than in temperate and polar regions,
but the evolutionary and ecological causes of this pattern remain controversial 1, 2. Tropical …

Ecologists often view community assembly as a process involving the dispersal of species
from a static regional species pool followed by environmental filtering to establish the local …

For centuries, biogeographers have examined the factors that produce patterns of
biodiversity across regions. The study of islands has proved particularly fruitful and has led …

Adaptive radiation is the rise of a diversity of ecological roles and role‐specific adaptations
within a lineage. Recently, some researchers have begun to use 'adaptive radiation'or …

The extraordinary species richness of freshwater fishes has attracted much research on
mechanisms and modes of speciation. We here review research on speciation in freshwater …

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Rapid adaptive radiation poses two distinct questions apart from speciation and adaptation:
What happens after one speciation event and how do some lineages continue speciating …

Eutrophication increases primary production and changes the relative abundance,
taxonomic composition and spatial distribution of primary producers within an aquatic …