Phylogenetic biome conservatism as a key concept for an integrative understanding of evolutionary history: Galliformes and Falconiformes as study cases

JS Pelegrin, JL Cantalapiedra… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Biomes are climatically and biotically distinctive macroecological units that formed over
geological time scales. Their features consolidate them as 'evolutionary scenarios', with their …

Vrba was right: Historical climate fragmentation, and not current climate, explains mammal biogeography

S Gamboa, S Galván, S Varela - Global Change Biology, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate plays a crucial role in sha** species distribution and evolution over time. Dr
Vrba's Resource‐Use hypothesis posited that zones at the extremes of temperature and …

The predictable complexity of evolutionary allometry

ML Zelditch, DL Swiderski - Evolutionary Biology, 2023‏ - Springer
Allometry has been a paradigm of constraints, including intrinsic constraints on the
evolvability of allometry, as a source of developmental and genetic constraints on the …

Evolutionary history and patterns of divergence in three tropical east Asian squirrels across the Isthmus of Kra

A Hinckley, MTR Hawkins, JE Maldonado… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the biotic and abiotic mechanisms underlying the generation and
maintenance of biogeographic transitions represent long‐standing topics in evolutionary …

Ultraconserved elements improve resolution of marmot phylogeny and offer insights into biogeographic history

KK Mills, KM Everson, KBP Hildebrandt… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Marmots (Marmota spp.) comprise a lineage of large-bodied ground squirrels that diversified
rapidly in the Pleistocene, when the planet quickly transitioned to a drier, colder, and highly …

Ultrasound and ultraviolet: Crypsis in gliding mammals

SL Newar, I Schneiderová, B Hughes, J Bowman - PeerJ, 2024‏ - peerj.com
Gliding is only present in six extant groups of mammals—interestingly, despite divergent
evolutionary histories, all mammalian gliders are strictly nocturnal. Gliding mammals also …

[ספר][B] Sustainable Squirrel Conservation: A Modern Reassessment of Family Sciuridae

M Steiner, F Huettmann - 2023‏ - Springer
This book attempts to move the family of squirrels (Sciuridae) out of the shadow of large
charismatic mammals and to highlight management failures with the goal of moving towards …

A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialization and diversification in swallowtail butterflies

S Gamboa, FL Condamine… - Global Change …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The resource‐use hypothesis, proposed by ES Vrba, states that habitat fragmentation
caused by climatic oscillations would affect particularly biome specialists (species inhabiting …

Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate

H Tejero‐Cicuéndez, P Tarroso… - Global Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biodiversity is not uniformly distributed across the Earth's surface, even among
physiographically comparable biomes in different biogeographic regions. For lizards, the …

Macroevolution and climate changes: a global multi-family test supports the resource-use hypothesis in terrestrial mammals

M Hernández Fernández, JS Pelegrin… - Historical …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Elisabeth S. Vrba's resource-use hypothesis suggests that speciation in biomes subjected to
successive expansion-contraction-fragmentation during periods of climatic change …