The S outh A merican continent is composed of several biogeographical regions harbouring
the highest biodiversity on the globe, encompassing five of the world's biodiversity 'hot …

▪ Abstract Understanding the evolutionary processes that generate and sustain diversity in
tropical faunas has challenged biologists for over a century and should underpin …

The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

Numerous collecting expeditions of Theobroma cacao L. germplasm have been undertaken
in Latin-America. However, most of this germplasm has not contributed to cacao …

Phylogeography is a young, vigorous and integrative field of study that uses genetic data to
understand the history of populations. This field has recently expanded into many areas of …

The role of DNA barcoding as a tool to accelerate the inventory and analysis of diversity for
hyperdiverse arthropods is tested using ants in Madagascar. We demonstrate how DNA …

DNA techniques, analytical methods and palaeoclimatic studies are greatly advancing our
knowledge of the global distribution of genetic diversity, and how it evolved. Such …

The Neotropics contain globally significant areas of seasonally dry forests and savannas.
Seasonally dry tropical forests are found in scattered areas, with the most species-rich in …

Landscape features such as mountains, rivers, and ecological gradients may strongly affect
patterns of dispersal and gene flow among populations and thereby shape population …