▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

The term 'biodiversity'is a simple contraction of 'biological diversity', and at first sight the
concept is simple too: biodiversity is the sum total of all biotic variation from the level of …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

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 …

This comprehensive, groundbreaking book on the biodiversity of parasites offers a clear and
accessible explanation of how parasite biodiversity provides insight into the history and …

Information from natural history collections (NHCs) about the diversity, taxonomy and
historical distributions of species worldwide is becoming increasingly available over the …

Determining whether speciation and extinction rates depend on the state of a particular
character has been of long-standing interest to evolutionary biologists. To assess the effect …

Sexual conflict is a conflict between the evolutionary interests of individuals of the two sexes.
The sexes can have different trait optima but this need not imply conflict if their optima can …

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

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of statistical methods that
infer evolutionary and ecological processes from data on species distributions. These …