The species concept is the cornerstone of biodiversity science, and any paradigm shift in the
delimitation of species affects many research fields. Many biologists now are embracing a …

The range of resources that a species uses (ie its niche breadth) might determine the
geographical area it can occupy, but consensus on whether a niche breadth–range size …

INTRODUCTION Individual processes that shape geographical patterns of biodiversity are
increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

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 …

Using known occurrences of species and correlational modeling approaches has become a
common paradigm in broad-scale ecology and biogeography, yet important aspects of the …

▪ 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 …

The area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) has become
a dominant tool in evaluating the accuracy of models predicting distributions of species …

Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined
DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate …

Ecology and historical (phylogeny-based) biogeography have much to offer one another, but
exchanges between these fields have been limited. Historical biogeography has become …