Aim Island biogeography predicts positive relationships between area and species richness
resulting from the ecological processes of colonization in smaller areas and the evolutionary …

Abstract Aim The Theory of Island Biogeography posits that ecological and evolutionary
processes regulate species richness of isolated areas. We assessed the influences of an …

Genetic structure can be influenced by local adaptation to environmental heterogeneity and
biogeographic barriers, resulting in discrete population clusters. Geographic distance …

Assemblages of closely related organisms are generated on axes of deep time
diversification, biogeographic processes related to dispersal and habitat filtering, and …

Aim Vicariance has often been invoked to explain bioregionalization patterns in the
Neotropics. Using a revised point locality data for endemic species, we aimed to test for the …

At any location, a group of organisms may be represented by several clades. What
determines which clades will dominate local communities in terms of their species richness …

Aim Understanding determinants of species' range size is paramount to explaining global
ecological patterns and estimating extinction risk of species. Here, we examined whether a …

Macroecological studies describe large‐scale diversity patterns through analyses of species
distribution patterns and allows us to elucidate how species differing in ecology, physical …

Aim We determine whether trait‐driven diversification yields similar body size distributions
for snakes in local, regional and phylogenetic assemblages. Location U nited S tates, N orth …

Aim A major challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain the dramatic
differences in species richness among clades. Much variation in richness is explained by the …