The role of mountain ranges in the diversification of birds

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie, C Rahbek - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Avian faunas vary greatly among montane areas; those at high latitudes are biologically
impoverished, whereas those of some low-latitude mountains are biologically very complex …

Phylogeography and biogeography of the lower C entral A merican N eotropics: diversification between two continents and between two seas

JC Bagley, JB Johnson - Biological Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lower C entral A merica (LCA) provides a geologically complex and dynamic, richly
biodiverse model for studying the recent assembly and diversification of a N eotropical biota …

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

TF Rangel, NR Edwards, PB Holden, JAF Diniz-Filho… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Individual processes that shape geographical patterns of biodiversity are
increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales …

High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds

S Claramunt, EP Derryberry… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dispersal can stimulate speciation by facilitating geographical expansion across barriers or
inhibit speciation by maintaining gene flow among populations. Therefore, the relationship …

Historical connectivity and mountain biodiversity

SGA Flantua, H Hooghiemstra… - Mountains, climate and …, 2018 - books.google.com
The distribution of species in the present is just a snapshot in time after millions of years of
change. Pleistocene climatic cycles, varying from 100ky to sub‐millennial scales, played an …

Andean uplift promotes lowland speciation through vicariance and dispersal in Dendrocincla woodcreepers

JT Weir, M Price - Molecular Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Andean uplift contributed importantly to the build‐up of high Neotropical diversity. Final uplift
of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia separated once‐contiguous lowland faunas east and …

The tempo of trait divergence in geographic isolation: Avian speciation across the Marañon Valley of Peru

BM Winger, JM Bates - Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Geographic isolation is considered essential to most speciation events, but our
understanding of what controls the pace and degree of phenotypic divergence among …

Limits to speciation inferred from times to secondary sympatry and ages of hybridizing species along a latitudinal gradient

JT Weir, TD Price - The American Naturalist, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Range expansions are critical to renewed bouts of allopatric or parapatric speciation. Limits
on range expansions—and, by implication, speciation—include dispersal ability and …

Explosive ice age diversification of kiwi

JT Weir, O Haddrath, HA Robertson… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular dating largely overturned the paradigm that global cooling during recent
Pleistocene glacial cycles resulted in a burst of species diversification although some …

Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift

JA Chaves, JT Weir, TB Smith - Molecular Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Andes are known to have influenced speciation patterns in many taxa, yet whether
species diversification occurred simultaneously with their uplift or only after uplift was …