What factors influence whether a lineage can successfully transition into a new biome, and
why have some biome shifts been more frequent than others? To orient this line of research …

Projections of ecosystem and biodiversity change for Africa under climate change diverge
widely. More than other continents, Africa has disturbance-driven ecosystems that diversified …

Most existing methods for modeling trait evolution are univariate, although researchers are
often interested in investigating evolutionary patterns and processes across multiple traits …

Succulent plants are widely distributed, reaching their highest diversity in arid and semi‐arid
regions. Their origin and diversification is thought to be associated with a global expansion …

Environmental change can create opportunities for increased rates of lineage diversification,
but continued species accumulation has been hypothesized to lead to slowdowns via …

Species environmental niches are central to ecology, evolution, and global change
research, but their characterization and interpretation depend on the spatial scale …

Much of what we know about speciation comes from detailed studies of well‐known model
systems. Although there have been several important syntheses on speciation, few (if any) …

Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

A major goal of ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain patterns of species richness
among clades. Differences in rates of net diversification (speciation minus extinction over …

Background Microhabitat changes are thought to be among the main drivers of
diversification. However, this conclusion is mostly based on studies on vertebrates. Here, we …