Systematics of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera): current state and future directions.

A SHORT - Systematic Entomology, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on the current state-of-the-art conditions of water beetle systematics,
including description of water beetle taxa, their evolutionary relationships and their use as …

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

TF Rangel, NR Edwards, PB Holden, JAF Diniz-Filho… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Individual processes that shape geographical patterns of biodiversity are
increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales …

Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

BT Trew, IMD Maclean - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

Water beetles as models in ecology and evolution

DT Bilton, I Ribera, AEZ Short - Annual Review of Entomology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Beetles have colonized water many times during their history, with some of these events
involving extensive evolutionary radiations and multiple transitions between land and water …

The towering orogeny of New Guinea as a trigger for arthropod megadiversity

EFA Toussaint, R Hall, MT Monaghan, K Sagata… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Early studies on Melanesian mountain systems provided insights for fundamental
evolutionary and ecological concepts. These island-like systems are thought to provide …

Phylogenetic niche conservatism explains an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in freshwater arthropods

J Morinière, MH Van Dam, O Hawlitschek, J Bergsten… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The underlying mechanisms responsible for the general increase in species richness from
temperate regions to the tropics remain equivocal. Many hypotheses have been proposed to …

Niche and range size patterns suggest that speciation begins in small, ecologically diverged populations in North American monkeyflowers (Mimulus spp.)

DL Grossenbacher, SD Veloz, JP Sexton - Evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Closely related species (eg, sister taxa) often occupy very different ecological niches and
can exhibit large differences in geographic distributions despite their shared evolutionary …

Deep and wide valleys drive nested phylogeographic patterns across a montane bird community

VV Robin, CK Vishnudas, P Gupta… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Montane species distributions interrupted by valleys can lead to range fragmentation,
differentiation and ultimately speciation. Paleoclimatic fluctuations may accentuate or reduce …

Phylogeography of an insect inhabiting 'Sky Islands': the relationships among genetic structures and geographical characteristics, geohistorical characteristics, and …

H Suzuki, M Takenaka, K Tojo - Biological Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
When gene flow has been restricted between populations, the genetic structure of such
species often reflects geohistory and climate changes. Populations of species inhabiting …

Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves …

M Schweizer, TF Wright, JV Peñalba… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2015 - Elsevier
The lories and lorikeets (Aves: Loriinae: Loriini) are a readily recognizable, discrete group of
nectarivorous parrots confined to the Indo-Pacific region between Wallace's Line and the …