Long celebrated for its spectacular landscapes and strikingly high levels of endemic
biodiversity, the Philippines has been studied intensively by biogeographers for two …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

The polytypic species concept unites populations that theoretically could and would
interbreed were the opportunity to arise. This concept places the burden of proof of …

The archipelagos that form the transition between Asia and Australia were immortalized by
Alfred Russel Wallace's observations on the connections between geography and animal …

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 …

Climate-induced evolution will determine population persistence in a changing world.
However, finding natural systems in which to study these responses has been a barrier to …

Encompassing some of the major hotspots of biodiversity on Earth, large mountain systems
have long held the attention of evolutionary biologists. The region of the Qinghai‐Tibet …

We describe two new species of morphologically cryptic monitor lizards (genus Varanus)
from the Philippine Archipelago: Varanus dalubhasa sp. nov. and V. bangonorum sp. nov …

The lories and lorikeets (Aves: Loriinae: Loriini) are a readily recognizable, discrete group of
nectarivorous parrots confined to the Indo-Pacific region between Wallace's Line and the …