Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

The avifauna of New Zealand is taxonomically and ecologically distinctive, as is typical of
island biotas. However, the potential for an old geological age of New Zealand has …

A central paradigm in island biogeography has been the unidirectional “downstream”
colonization of islands from continents (source to sink) based on the idea that less-diverse …

The Corvides (previously referred to as the core Corvoidea) are a morphologically diverse
clade of passerine birds comprising nearly 800 species. The group originated some 30 …

The complex island archipelagoes of Wallacea and Melanesia have provided empirical data
behind integral theories in evolutionary biology, including allopatric speciation and island …

Several studies have suggested that vegetation structural complexity can influence the
frequency of extra-pair copulations, especially by reducing mating-guarding efficiency. Here …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Different models of speciation predict contrasting patterns in the relationship between the
dispersal ability of lineages and their diversification rates. This relationship is expected to be …

Todiramphus chloris is the most widely distributed of the Pacific's 'great speciators'. Its 50
subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000 km from the Red …

Background The birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae) form one of the most prominent avian
examples of sexual selection and show a complex biogeographical distribution. The family …