Rare, long‐distance dispersal events are a key process in generating and maintaining
patterns in biological diversity and species distributions across space and time. The 9.0 …

Abstract Aim Although Antarctica hosted a diverse fauna and flora in the past, its modern
climate is too extreme for many lineages: their recent extinction makes it difficult to include …

Although a consensus exists that all living turtles fall within either Pleurodira or Cryptodira
clades, estimating when these lineages split is still under debate. Most molecular studies …

Abstract The Hawaiian radiation of Myrsine (primrose family, Primulaceae) is the only one
among the ten most species‐rich Hawaiian plant lineages that has never been included in a …

Diversification and speciation of terrestrial organisms are anticipated in oceanic islands
such as Macaronesia, a group of Atlantic islands that have remained unconnected to …

Geographic isolation is a central mechanism of speciation, but perfect isolation of
populations is rare. Although speciation can be hindered if gene flow is large, intermediate …

Aim We address questions about trans‐Pacific distributions of marine organisms and the
North Pacific Ocean as a centre of marine biodiversity through a phylogenetic and …

The marine organisms are exposed to great human-induced alterations due to the
indiscriminate discharges into the sea, which is why the study of marine pollution is of great …

Background Biogeography models typically focus on explaining patterns through island
properties, such as size, complexity, age, and isolation. Such models explain variation in the …

In order to investigate biogeographic influences on xeric biota in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
(BAF), a biodiversity hotspot, we used a monophyletic group including three cactus taxa as a …