The older history of hybrid zones is explored through consideration of recent advances in
climatology, paleontology and phylogeography in the Late Cenozoic, particularly the …

The Mediterranean peninsulas contain much genetic and species diversity, which
decreases toward higher latitudes in Europe. In considering how such diversity evolved …

Aim In contrast to the attention given to southern Europe both as a centre of speciation and
differentiation and as a Pleistocene refugium of Western Palaearctic taxa, North Africa has …

A critical review of the evolutionary biology of Iberian and North African lizard members of
the genus Podarcis (Lacertidae) based on phylogeny, phylogeography, morphometrics …

Current climate change is a major threat to biodiversity. Species unable to adapt or move
will face local or global extinction and this is more likely to happen to species with narrow …

Evolutionary inference based on molecular phylogenetic methods has profoundly modified
the way that we understand biological diversity, unravelling a higher evolutionary diversity …

Morphological variation in relation to habitat is known to occur in several lizard groups.
Comparative studies have linked morphology and habitat use, showing that locomotion is …

The climate has undergone significant changes since the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
and in the course of the Holocene, parallel to important cultural transformations and …

In a perfect world, systematic conservation planning would use complete information on the
distribution of biodiversity. However, information on most species is grossly incomplete. Two …

Background The study of recently-diverged species offers significant challenges both in the
definition of evolutionary entities and in the estimation of gene flow among them. Iberian and …