Wallacean and Melanesian islands promote higher rates of diversification within the global passerine radiation Corvides

JM McCullough, CH Oliveros, BW Benz… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The complex island archipelagoes of Wallacea and Melanesia have provided empirical data
behind integral theories in evolutionary biology, including allopatric speciation and island …

Sunda–Sahul floristic exchange and pathways into the Southwest Pacific: New insights from wet tropical forest trees

L Holzmeyer, F Hauenschild… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Recent investigations on the floristic exchange between Southeast Asia and Australia
have shown a clear dispersal directionality bias (West to East) of wet‐adapted plant taxa …

Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of barn owls and relatives (Family: Tytonidae), and their six major Pleistocene radiations

V Uva, M Päckert, A Cibois, L Fumagalli… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The owl family Tytonidae comprises two genera: Phodilus, limited to the forests of central
Africa and South-East Asia, and the ubiquitous Tyto. The genus Tyto is majorly represented …

Diversification and community assembly of the world's largest tropical island

JD Kennedy, PZ Marki, AH Reeve… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The species diversity and endemism of tropical biotas are major contributors to global
biodiversity, but the factors underlying the formation of these systems remain poorly …

Reconciling supertramps, great speciators and relict species with the taxon cycle stages of a large island radiation (Aves: Campephagidae)

ML Pepke, M Irestedt, J Fjeldså… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The taxon cycle concept provides a geographically explicit and testable set of
hypotheses for exploring the evolutionary processes underlying the distribution of species in …

Phylogeography of a 'great speciator' (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo‐Pacific

MP Pedersen, M Irestedt, L Joseph… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We derive a new phylogenetic framework of the Indo‐Pacific avian genus Edolisoma
based on a dense taxon sampling and use it in an explicit spatiotemporal framework to …

Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): Implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds

J Bruxaux, M Gabrielli, H Ashari, R Prŷs-Jones… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Assessing the relative contributions of immigration and diversification into the buildup of
species diversity is key to understanding the role of historical processes in driving …

Expansion in geographical and morphological space drives continued lineage diversification in a global passerine radiation

JD Kennedy, MK Borregaard… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Why diversification rates vary so extensively across the tree of life remains an important yet
unresolved issue in biology. Two prominent and potentially independent factors proposed to …

Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus: Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago

SB Reilly, BR Karin, AL Stubbs, E Arida, U Arifin… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The archipelagos of Wallacea extend between the Sunda and Sahul Shelves, serving as a
semipermeable two-way filter influencing faunal exchange between Asia and Australo …

The association between morphological and ecological characters across a global passerine radiation

JD Kennedy, PZ Marki, J Fjeldså… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Strong relationships between morphological and ecological characters are commonly
predicted to reflect the association between form and function, with this hypothesis being …