Quaternary climatic changes have been invoked as important drivers of species
diversification worldwide. However, the impact of such changes on vegetation and animal …

Numerous works have related phylogeographical patterns of north African Mediterranean
biota to Pleistocene climatic oscillations. The application of complementary paleoclimate …

Northwestern Africa is today characterized by high geographical, climatic and ecological
diversity; it is recognized as a hotspot of biodiversity and a major area for both human and …

A series of phylogeographic studies in the Maghreb identified a repeated pattern of deep
genetic divergence between an eastern (Tunisia) and western (Morocco) lineage for several …

Modern taxonomy relies on the unified species concept and integrative approaches to
delimit evolutionary coherent taxa. The western Mediterranean vipers within the Vipera …

Kinosternon is the most speciose genus of extant turtles, with 22 currently recognized
species, distributed across large parts of the Americas. Most species have small …

Background Quaternary climate fluctuations have been acknowledged as major drivers of
the geographical distribution of the extraordinary biodiversity observed in tropical biomes …

Studying phylogeographic histories in wide-ranging species provides key insights into those
processes shaping current species' distributions and genetic structuring. In this work, we …

North Africa is a climatically and topographically complex region with unique biotic
assemblages resulting from the combination of multiple biogeographic realms. Here, we …

Reconstructing reliable timescales for species evolution is an important and indispensable
goal of modern biogeography. However, many factors influence the estimation of divergence …