Species' evolutionary histories shape their present‐day ecologies, but the integration of
phylogenetic approaches in ecology has had a contentious history. The field of …

Statistical techniques exist for inferring community assembly processes from community
patterns. Habitat filtering, competition, and biogeographical effects have, for example, been …

How ecological interactions, genetic processes, and environmental variability jointly shape
the evolution of species diversity remains a challenging problem in biology. We developed …

Aims Patterns of species richness, such as the remarkable biodiversity of tropical regions,
have been documented and studied for centuries. However, their underlying evolutionary …

The metacommunity concept, describing how local and regional scale processes interact to
structure communities, has been successfully applied to patterns of taxonomic diversity …

Niche expansion is attained by adaptations in two generalized phenotypical traits—niche
position and niche width. This gives room for a wide range of conceptual ways of niche …

One of the primary goals of macroevolutionary biology has been to explain general trends in
long-term diversity patterns, including whether such patterns correspond to an upscaling of …

Whether biotic or abiotic factors are the dominant drivers of clade diversification is a long-
standing question in evolutionary biology. The ubiquitous patterns of phylogenetic …

Much of life's diversity has arisen through ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations, but
the mechanistic underpinning of such diversification is not fully understood. Competition and …

It is well known that ecological and evolutionary processes act in concert while shaping
biological communities. Diversification can, for example, arise through ecological …