The role of mountain ranges in the diversification of birds

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie, C Rahbek - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Avian faunas vary greatly among montane areas; those at high latitudes are biologically
impoverished, whereas those of some low-latitude mountains are biologically very complex …

New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa's forest avifauna

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie - African Journal of Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The use of DNA sequence data in systematic studies has brought about a revolution in our
understanding of avian relationships and when combined with digitized distributional data …

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

BG Holt, JP Lessard, MK Borregaard, SA Fritz… - Science, 2013 - science.org
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 …

Bayesian species delimitation in West African forest geckos (Hemidactylus fasciatus)

AD Leaché, MK Fujita - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Genealogical data are an important source of evidence for delimiting species, yet few
statistical methods are available for calculating the probabilities associated with different …

[图书][B] Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds

L Christidis, W Boles - 2008 - books.google.com
Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of
Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of …

Comparative phylogeography of Atlantic bluefin tuna and swordfish: the combined effects of vicariance, secondary contact, introgression, and population expansion …

JRA Bremer, J Viñas, J Mejuto, B Ely, C Pla - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Comparative phylogeography has revealed remarkable patterns of concordance in the
maternal phylogenies of many species. The phylogeography and historical demography of …

Phylogeography of the montane caddisfly Drusus discolor: evidence for multiple refugia and periglacial survival

SU Pauls, HT Lumbsch, P Haase - Molecular Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the genetic population structure and phylogeography of the montane caddisfly
Drusus discolor across its entire range in central and southern Europe. The species is …

Rapid radiation of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) during Pliocene and Pleistocene: result of a global climate change

SB Janssens, EB Knox, S Huysmans, EF Smets… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2009 - Elsevier
Impatiens comprises more than 1000 species and is one of the largest genera of flowering
plants. The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, yet most of its evolutionary history is …

Spatially explicit predictions of blood parasites in a widely distributed African rainforest bird

RNM Sehgal, W Buermann… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Critical to the mitigation of parasitic vector-borne diseases is the development of accurate
spatial predictions that integrate environmental conditions conducive to pathogen …

Speciation and radiations track climate transitions since the Miocene Climatic Optimum: a case study of southern African chameleons

KA Tolley, BM Chase, F Forest - Journal of Biogeography, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The high amount of species diversity concentrated in southern Africa has been
attributed to palaeoclimatic factors, and the timing of radiations in some taxa corresponds to …