Key message This review highlights some of the discoveries and applications made
possible by “omics” technologies over the last 10 years and provides perspectives for …

The accumulation of biodiversity in tropical forests can occur through multiple allopatric and
parapatric models of diversification, including forest refugia, riverine barriers and ecological …

For three decades, comparative phylogeography has conceptually and methodologically
relied on the concordance criterion for providing insights into the historical/biogeographic …

Comparative phylogeography of African savannah mammals shows a congruent pattern in
which populations in West/Central Africa are distinct from populations in East/Southern …

Frogs in the genus Amnirana (family Ranidae) are widely distributed across sub-Saharan
Africa and present a model system for exploring the relationship between diversification and …

Aim Phylogeographical signatures of past population fragmentation and demographic
change have been reported in several African rain forest trees. These signatures have …

Organismal traits interact with environmental variation to mediate how species respond to
shared landscapes. Thus, differences in traits related to dispersal ability or physiological …

Darwin's elucidation of natural selection as a creative evolu-tionary force was one of the
monumental intellectual achievements in the history of science, not only revolutionizing …

The fossil record in tropical Africa suggests that dry conditions during the Ice Ages caused
expansion of savannahs and contraction of the rainforest. Forest refugia have been …

The tropical rain forests of Central Africa contain high levels of species diversity.
Paleovegetation or biodiversity patterns suggested successive contraction/expansion …