Drainage divides separate Earth's surface into individual river basins. Divide migration
impacts the evolution of landforms, regional climate, ecosystems and biodiversity. In this …

Madagascar exhibits high endemic biodiversity that has evolved with sustained and stable
rates of speciation over the past several tens of millions of years. The topography of …

We develop a conceptual framework for geo-evolutionary feedbacks which describes the
mutual interplay between landscape change and the evolution of traits of organisms residing …

The origin and eventual loss of biogeographic barriers can create alternating periods of
allopatry and secondary contact, facilitating gene flow among distinct metapopulations and …

The process of evolution and the structures it produces are best understood in the light of
hierarchy theory. The biota traditionally is described by either the genealogical Linnaean …

Evolution proceeds unevenly across the tree of life, with some lineages accumulating
diversity more rapidly than others. Explaining this disparity is challenging as similar …

In-channel vegetation is ubiquitous in aquatic environments and plays a critical role in the
fate and transport of solutes and particles in aquatic ecosystems. Recent studies have …

A fundamental goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the mechanisms that generate
and maintain biodiversity. Discovery and delimitation of species represent essential …

Human activities have widely disrupted the spatial ecological processes critical for
population and ecosystem integrity. Local effects of altered sediment regimes in rivers are …

Climate contrasts across drainage divides, such as orographic precipitation, are ubiquitous
in mountain ranges, and as a result, mountain topography is often asymmetric. During …