Looking back for the future: the ecology of terrestrial communities through the lens of conservation paleobiology

ME Kemp, AE Boville, CM Carneiro… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Terrestrial ecosystems encompass a vast and vital component of Earth's biodiversity and
ecosystem services. The effect of increased anthropogenic dominance on terrestrial …

Map** species diversification metrics in macroecology: Prospects and challenges

JA Velasco, JN Pinto-Ledezma - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The intersection of macroecology and macroevolution is one of today's most active research
in biology. In the last decade, we have witnessed a steady increment of macroecological …

[HTML][HTML] Mountain radiations are not only rapid and recent: Ancient diversification of South American frog and lizard families related to Paleogene Andean orogeny …

LM Boschman, FL Condamine - Global and Planetary Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Mountainous areas host a disproportionately large fraction of Earth's biodiversity, suggesting
a causal relationship between mountain building and biological diversification. Mountain …

Mountains exhibit a stronger latitudinal diversity gradient than lowland regions

EA Tenorio, P Montoya, N Norden… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is a well‐explored biogeographical pattern, yet
regional differences across geographical and geomorphological areas have been poorly …

Evolutionary rescue and geographic range shifts under climate change for global amphibians

KS Souza, DS Fortunato, L Jardim… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
By the end of this century, human-induced climate change and habitat loss may drastically
reduce biodiversity, with expected effects on many amphibian lineages. One of these effects …

Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation

LRV Alencar, O Schwery, MR Gade… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Evolution proceeds unevenly across the tree of life, with some lineages accumulating
diversity more rapidly than others. Explaining this disparity is challenging as similar …

The global distribution patterns of alien vertebrate richness in mountains

A García-Rodríguez, B Lenzner, JA Velasco… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The diverse biotas of the world's mountains face a challenging future due to increasing
threats like climate change, land-use change, and biological invasions, the last being …

Patterns and drivers of climatic niche dynamics during biological invasions of island‐endemic amphibians, reptiles, and birds

A García‐Rodríguez, B Lenzner, C Marino… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts between native and alien climatic niches pose a major challenge for predicting
biological invasions. This is particularly true for insular species because geophysical …

An elevational phylogeographic diversity gradient in Neotropical birds is decoupled from speciation rates

KS Wacker, BM Winger - The American Naturalist, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
A key question about macroevolutionary speciation rates is whether they are controlled by
microevolutionary processes operating at the population level. For example, does spatial …

Chromosomal evolution, environmental heterogeneity, and migration drive spatial patterns of species richness in Calochortus (Liliaceae)

N Karimi, CP Krieg, D Spalink, AR Lemmon… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
We used nuclear genomic data and statistical models to evaluate the ecological and
evolutionary processes sha** spatial variation in species richness in Calochortus …