Evolutionary radiations on continents are less well-understood and appreciated than those
occurring on islands. The extent of ecological influence on species divergence can be …

Aim Environmental drivers and host richness play key roles in affecting herbivore diversity.
However, the relative effects of these factors and their effects on lineages characterized by …

The tribe Oryzomyini is an impressive group of rodents, comprising 30 extant genera and an
estimated 147 species. Recent remarkable advances in the understanding of the diversity …

The Andean mountains stand out for their striking species richness and endemicity that
characterize many emblematic Neotropical clades distributed in or around these mountains …

The Andean cloud forests of western Colombia and Ecuador are home to several endemic
mammals; members of the Oryzomyini, the largest Sigmodontinae tribe, are extensively …

Recently published time-calibrated molecular phylogenies have brought to light a large-
scale biotic interchange between the Western and Eastern Amazon basins, associated with …

Areas of endemism (AoE) comprise regions host to two or more endemic taxa, whose
distributional limits are congruent and not random. These areas are important for two …

Neotropical cricetid rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae constitute an incredibly diverse
and ubiquitous clade of mammals in South America. In spite of recent advances in …

Aim The relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors in shaping the species diversity of
temperate organisms has been debated for a long time. Here, we used drepanosiphine …

Brazil has high levels of biodiversity and has received strong criticism for the increasing
country‐wide deforestation that threatens it. Although a significant percentage of land area …