Darwin's dual interests in evolution and plants formed the basis of evolutionary botany, a
field that developed following his publications on both topics. Here, we review his many …

Species distribution modeling is a valuable tool with many applications across ecology and
evolutionary biology. The selection of biologically meaningful environmental variables that …

Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a key issue in
evolutionary biology, ecology, and biogeography. Evolutionary rates are the net result of …

Environmental change can create opportunities for increased rates of lineage diversification,
but continued species accumulation has been hypothesized to lead to slowdowns via …

Phenotypic divergence can promote reproductive isolation and speciation, suggesting a
possible link between rates of phenotypic evolution and the tempo of speciation at multiple …

Several theories predict that rates of phenotypic evolution should be related to the rate at
which new lineages arise. However, drawing general conclusions regarding the coupling …

Lengthy debate has surrounded the theoretical and empirical science of whether climatic
niche evolution is related to increased or decreased rates of biological diversification …

To understand the functional meaning of morphological features, we need to relate what we
know about morphology and ecology in a meaningful, quantitative framework. Closely …

How traits affect speciation is a long-standing question in evolution. We investigate whether
speciation rates are affected by the traits themselves or by the rates of their evolution, in …

A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand why clades differ dramatically in
species richness. A key to this challenge is to uncover the correlates of variation in …