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 …

Aim To evaluate the evolutionary conservatism of coarse‐resolution Grinnellian (or
scenopoetic) ecological niches. Location Global. Methods I review a broad swathe of …

The American tropics (the Neotropics) are the most species-rich realm on Earth, and for
centuries, scientists have attempted to understand the origins and evolution of their …

Aim Concerns over how global change will influence species distributions, in conjunction
with increased emphasis on understanding niche dynamics in evolutionary and community …

▪ Abstract Niche conservatism is the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological
characteristics. In the recent literature, a debate has emerged as to whether niches are …

Ecological approaches to community assembly have emphasized the interplay between
neutral processes, niche-based environmental filtering and niche-based species sorting in …

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 …

One of the oldest challenges in ecology is to understand the processes that underpin the
composition of communities. Historically, an obvious way in which to describe community …

Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) are powerful tools to project past, current and
future vegetation patterns and associated biogeochemical cycles. However, most models …

Niche conservatism, the tendency of a species niche to remain unchanged over time, is
often assumed when discussing, explaining or predicting biogeographical patterns …