Phylogeographical patterns shed light on evolutionary process in S outh A merica

AC Turchetto‐Zolet, F Pinheiro, F Salgueiro… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies

FK Barker, KJ Burns, J Klicka… - The Auk …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the biogeographic origins and temporal sequencing of groups within a
region or of lineages within an ecosystem can yield important insights into evolutionary …

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

BG Holt, JP Lessard, MK Borregaard, SA Fritz… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos

SGA Flantua, A O'Dea, RE Onstein… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

Quantitative criteria for species delimitation

JA Tobias, N Seddon, CN Spottiswoode, JD Pilgrim… - Ibis, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Species are the fundamental units of biology, ecology and conservation, and progress in
these fields is therefore hampered by widespread taxonomic bias and uncertainty …

Are the Northern Andes a species pump for Neotropical birds? Phylogenetics and biogeography of a clade of Neotropical tanagers (Aves: Thraupini)

RE Sedano, KJ Burns - Journal of Biogeography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We used mitochondrial DNA sequence data to reconstruct the phylogeny of a large
clade of tanagers (Aves: Thraupini). We used the phylogeny of this Neotropical bird group to …

The tempo of trait divergence in geographic isolation: Avian speciation across the Marañon Valley of Peru

BM Winger, JM Bates - Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Geographic isolation is considered essential to most speciation events, but our
understanding of what controls the pace and degree of phenotypic divergence among …

Ecological speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird?

LM Caro, PC Caycedo‐Rosales… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Local adaptation of populations along elevational gradients is well known, but conclusive
evidence that such divergence has resulted in the origin of distinct species in parapatry …

Two pulses of diversification across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in a montane Mexican bird fauna

BR Barber, J Klicka - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the evolutionary history of the species in a particular region provides insights
into how that fauna was formed. Of particular interest to biogeographers is examining the …

Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift

JA Chaves, JT Weir, TB Smith - Molecular Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Andes are known to have influenced speciation patterns in many taxa, yet whether
species diversification occurred simultaneously with their uplift or only after uplift was …