The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

Evolutionary ecologists are increasingly combining phylogenetic data with distributional and
ecological data to assess how and why communities of species differ from random …

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

Abstract George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated
as adaptive radiations—more or less simultaneous divergences of numerous lines from a …

Ecologists are increasingly adopting an evolutionary perspective, and in recent years, the
idea that closely related species are ecologically similar has become widespread. In this …

The analysis of the phylogenetic structure of communities can help reveal contemporary
ecological interactions, as well as link community ecology with biogeography and the study …

Recent speciation research has generally focused on how lineages that originate in
allopatry evolve intrinsic reproductive isolation, or how ecological divergence promotes …

We integrate climatic niche models and dated phylogenies to characterize the evolution of
climatic niches in Oenothera sections Anogra and Kleinia (Onagraceae), and from that we …

Many biodiversity hotspots are in montane regions, and many plant and animal groups have
their highest species richness at intermediate elevations. Yet, the explanation for this hump …

ABSTRACT A fundamental goal of ecological research is to understand and model how
processes generate patterns so that if conditions change, changes in the patterns can be …