The time is past when a research program in systematics should be based on only a few
genes, extant taxa, and ultrametric trees. Cheap genome sequencing, powerful statistical …

Phylogenetic trees are believed to contain a wealth of information on diversification
processes. However, comparing phylogenetic trees is not straightforward due to their high …

Understanding the origins of biodiversity has been an aspiration since the days of early
naturalists. The immense complexity of ecological, evolutionary, and spatial processes …

Grasslands are predicted to experience a major biodiversity change by the year 2100. A
better understanding of how grasslands have responded to past environmental changes will …

Phylogenetic trees are central to many areas of biology, ranging from population genetics
and epidemiology to microbiology, ecology, and macroevolution. The ability to summarize …

Birth–death (BD) models are widely used in combination with species phylogenies to study
past diversification dynamics. Current inference approaches typically rely on likelihood …

Abstract Background MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography has been a
foundation for obtaining testable predictions from models of community assembly and for …

Inferring epidemiological parameters such as the R 0 from time-scaled phylogenies is a
timely challenge. Most current approaches rely on likelihood functions, which raise specific …

One of the primary goals of macroevolutionary biology has been to explain general trends in
long-term diversity patterns, including whether such patterns correspond to an upscaling of …

While the theory of micro-evolution by natural selection assigns a crucial role to competition,
its role in macroevolution is less clear. Phylogenetic evidence for a decelerating …