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

The Amazon is the largest drainage basin on Earth and contains a wide variety of abiotic
landscape features. In spite of this, the geodiversity in this basin has not yet been objectively …

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 …

Background To unravel the evolutionary history of a complex group, a comprehensive
reconstruction of its phylogenetic relationships is crucial. This requires meticulous taxon …

South America is home to the highest freshwater fish biodiversity on Earth, and the hotspot
of species richness is located in the western Amazon basin. The location of this hotspot is …

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 …

The upper rio Paraná basin drains the most developed and environmentally degraded
region in South America: the Brazilian southeast. While it is one of the most well-known …

Speciation rates vary greatly among taxa and regions and are shaped by both biotic and
abiotic factors. However, the relative importance and interactions of these factors are not …

Evergreen broad‐leaved forests (EBLFs) are dominated by a monsoon climate and form a
distinct biome in East Asia with notably high biodiversity. However, the origin and evolution …

Eriophyoid mites are among the most species‐rich superfamilies (Eriophyoidea) in the Acari,
consisting of over 5000 named species. Although they exhibit a geographically uneven …