Aim Dispersal barriers between areas within some regions have appeared and disappeared
throughout evolutionary time. Here we describe the distributional patterns displayed by three …

The main aim of the present research is to draw and discuss some theoretical and
methodological topics of taxon biogeography. We propose a method for drawing hypotheses …

Abstract Aim The Mediterranean Basin (MB) is a species‐rich biogeographical region with
many endemic taxa. We analysed the historical patterns of temporal and geographical …

The complex geological history of the western Mediterranean region conceals the
interpretation of the evolutionary history of its current fauna, as similar distribution patterns …

The tenebrionid beetles on 25 circum-Sicilian islands were studied to determine the
influence of island geographical and landscape features on three main intercorrelated …

Abstract Aim The circum‐Mediterranean region is one of the most complex regions of the
Earth in terms of geography and natural history. The Old World species of the beetle subtribe …

Aim The geological evolution of the Mediterranean region is largely the result of the Tertiary
collision of the African and Eurasian Plates, but also a mosaic of migrating island arcs …

Placed in the centre of the Mediterranean Basin, Italy is a complex biogeographical
crossroad between North Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and North …

Summary The Strait of Gibraltar is one of the major barriers to gene flow between land
masses of Europe and Africa at the western end of the Mediterranean. Since the opening of …

Aim To reconstruct the evolutionary history of a genus of freshwater beetle with a pan‐
Mediterranean distribution, to test classic hypotheses which proposed a Miocene origin for …