Something in the way you move: dispersal pathways affect invasion success

JRU Wilson, EE Dormontt, PJ Prentis, AJ Lowe… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Biological invasions are caused by human-mediated extra-range dispersal and, unlike
natural extra-range dispersal, are often the result of multiple introductions from multiple …

Gondwana to Asia: Plate tectonics, paleogeography and the biological connectivity of the Indian sub-continent from the Middle Jurassic through latest Eocene (166 …

JR Ali, JC Aitchison - Earth-Science Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Using the most up-to-the-date information available, we present a considerably revised plate
tectonic and paleogeographic model for the Indian Ocean bordering continents, from …

Model selection in historical biogeography reveals that founder-event speciation is a crucial process in island clades

NJ Matzke - Systematic biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Founder-event speciation, where a rare jump dispersal event founds a new genetically
isolated lineage, has long been considered crucial by many historical biogeographers, but …

[图书][B] Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing

NJ Matzke - 2013 - search.proquest.com
Historical biogeography has a diversity of methods for inferring ancestral geographic ranges
on phylogenies, but many of the methods have conflicting assumptions, and there is no …

Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics?

A Antonelli, I Sanmartín - Taxon, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Neotropical region (tropical America) is the most species rich region on Earth.
Several causes have been proposed to explain this extraordinary biodiversity, which may be …

Biogeographic analysis reveals ancient continental vicariance and recent oceanic dispersal in amphibians

RA Pyron - Systematic biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Amphibia comprises over 7000 extant species distributed in almost every ecosystem on
every continent except Antarctica. Most species also show high specificity for particular …

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

MD Crisp, MTK Arroyo, LG Cook, MA Gandolfo… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
How and why organisms are distributed as they are has long intrigued evolutionary
biologists,,,. The tendency for species to retain their ancestral ecology has been …

Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution

SR Floeter, LA Rocha, DR Robertson… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To understand why and when areas of endemism (provinces) of the tropical Atlantic
Ocean were formed, how they relate to each other, and what processes have contributed to …

Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

N Wahlberg, J Leneveu… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The butterfly family Nymphalidae contains some of the most important non-drosophilid insect
model systems for evolutionary and ecological studies, yet the evolutionary history of the …

Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation

EA Treml, PN Halpin, DL Urban, LF Pratson - Landscape Ecology, 2008 - Springer
The dispersal of individuals among marine populations is of great importance to
metapopulation dynamics, population persistence, and species expansion. Understanding …