Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

Climate's effect on global biodiversity is typically viewed through the lens of temperature,
humidity and resulting ecosystem productivity,,,,–. However, it is not known whether …

Abstract Background MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography has been a
foundation for obtaining testable predictions from models of community assembly and for …

Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …

Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established
environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of …

A variety of factors can affect the biodiversity of tropical mammal communities, but their
relative importance and directionality remain uncertain. Previous global investigations of …

Aim Exploring the relationships between the different facets of beta diversity and both past
and current environmental conditions can unveil the processes that have shaped spatial …

Understanding why species composition and diversity varies spatially and with
environmental variation is a long-standing theme in macroecological research. Numerous …

Islands are of high interest for conservationists, due to their great biodiversity within discrete
territories. Nonetheless, several mechanisms of plant diversity patterns are unknown …

In the face of the current extinction crisis and severely limited conservation resources,
safeguarding the tree of life is increasingly recognized as a high priority. We conducted a …