Recovering speciation and extinction dynamics based on phylogenies

T Stadler - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic trees of only extant species contain information about the underlying
speciation and extinction pattern. In this review, I provide an overview over the different …

Phylogenetic estimates of speciation and extinction rates for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses

RA Pyron, FT Burbrink - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
Phylogenies are used to estimate rates of speciation and extinction, reconstruct historical
diversification scenarios, and link these to ecological and evolutionary factors, such as …

Total-evidence dating under the fossilized birth–death process

C Zhang, T Stadler, S Klopfstein, TA Heath… - Systematic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian total-evidence dating involves the simultaneous analysis of morphological data
from the fossil record and morphological and sequence data from recent organisms, and it …

Bayesian estimation of speciation and extinction from incomplete fossil occurrence data

D Silvestro, J Schnitzler, LH Liow, A Antonelli… - Systematic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The temporal dynamics of species diversity are shaped by variations in the rates of
speciation and extinction, and there is a long history of inferring these rates using first and …

The rise of grasslands is linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the late Palaeogene

L Palazzesi, O Hidalgo, VD Barreda, F Forest… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Grasslands are predicted to experience a major biodiversity change by the year 2100. A
better understanding of how grasslands have responded to past environmental changes will …

Dredging alleviates cyanobacterial blooms by weakening diversity maintenance of bacterioplankton community

W Wan, GM Gadd, JD Gu, D He, W Liu, W Yuan, L Ye… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Disentangling ecological mechanisms behind dredging is meaningful to implement
environmental policy for improving water quality. However, environmental adaptation and …

Bayesian phylogenetic estimation of clade ages supports trans-Atlantic dispersal of cichlid fishes

M Matschiner, Z Musilová, JMI Barth… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Divergence-time estimation based on molecular phylogenies and the fossil record has
provided insights into fundamental questions of evolutionary biology. In Bayesian node …

Birth–death models and coalescent point processes: The shape and probability of reconstructed phylogenies

A Lambert, T Stadler - Theoretical population biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Forward-in-time models of diversification (ie, speciation and extinction) produce
phylogenetic trees that grow “vertically” as time goes by. Pruning the extinct lineages out of …

Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders

J Eberle, D Dimitrov, A Valdez-Mondragón… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

An engine for global plant diversity: highest evolutionary turnover and emigration in the American tropics

A Antonelli, A Zizka, D Silvestro, R Scharn… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the processes that have generated the latitudinal biodiversity gradient and
the continental differences in tropical biodiversity remains a major goal of evolutionary …