Return to the Malay Archipelago: the biogeography of Sundaic rainforest birds

FH Sheldon, HC Lim, RG Moyle - Journal of Ornithology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract During the last 15–20 years, phylogenetic, phylogeographic, paleontological,
geological, and habitat modeling studies have improved our knowledge of Sundaic …

Origin and evolution of the Micronesian biota: Insights from molecular phylogenies and biogeography reveal long‐distance dispersal scenarios and founder‐event …

E Demeulenaere… - Journal of Systematics and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Micronesian islands taxa show high endemism rates, but very little is known about their
biogeographical histories. The lack of systematic biogeography is mainly due to insufficient …

New directions in island biogeography

AMC Santos, R Field, RE Ricklefs - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides)

KA Jønsson, PH Fabre, JD Kennedy, BG Holt… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Corvides (previously referred to as the core Corvoidea) are a morphologically diverse
clade of passerine birds comprising nearly 800 species. The group originated some 30 …

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 …

Climate, host phylogeny and the connectivity of host communities govern regional parasite assembly

NJ Clark, SM Clegg, K Sam, W Goulding… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Identifying barriers that govern parasite community assembly and parasite invasion risk
is critical to understand how shifting host ranges impact disease emergence. We studied …

Two centuries of monarch butterfly collections reveal contrasting effects of range expansion and migration loss on wing traits

MG Freedman, H Dingle, SY Strauss… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Migratory animals exhibit traits that allow them to exploit seasonally variable habitats. In
environments where migration is no longer beneficial, such as oceanic islands, migration …

Rapid diversification and secondary sympatry in Australo-Pacific kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae: Todiramphus)

MJ Andersen, HT Shult, A Cibois… - Royal Society …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Todiramphus chloris is the most widely distributed of the Pacific's 'great speciators'. Its 50
subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000 km from the Red …

Valuing museum specimens: high-throughput DNA sequencing on historical collections of New Guinea crowned pigeons (Goura)

G Besnard, JAM Bertrand, B Delahaie… - Biological Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Museum specimens are of particular importance for investigating systematics and the
biogeography as well as other aspects of the evolution of biodiversity. They are also a …

Lizards of the lost arcs: mid-Cenozoic diversification, persistence and ecological marginalization in the West Pacific

PM Oliver, RM Brown, F Kraus… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Regions with complex geological histories often have diverse and highly endemic biotas, yet
inferring the ecological and historical processes shaping this relationship remains …