Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their
distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which …

GG Simpson, one of the chief architects of evolutionary biology’s modern synthesis, proposed
that diversification occurs on a macroevolutionary adaptive landscape, but landscape …

The pace of phenotypic diversification during adaptive radiation should decrease as ecological
opportunity declines. We test this prediction using phylogenetic comparative analyses of …

COLLECTING BIOLOGICAL specimens for scientific studies came under scrutiny when BA
Minteer et al.[“Avoiding (re) extinction,” Perspectives, 18 April, p. 260] suggested that this …

Following decades of intensive study, Anolis lizards have emerged as a biological model
system. We review how new research on anoles has advanced our understanding of ecology …

We present a method,‘SURFACE’, that uses the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stabilizing selection
model to identify cases of convergent evolution using only continuous phenotypic characters …

Darwin may have been the first to describe adaptive radiation when, contemplating the
variety of finches that now bear his name, he remarked:“Seeing this gradation and diversity of …

For centuries, biogeographers have examined the factors that produce patterns of biodiversity
across regions. The study of islands has proved particularly fruitful and has led to the …

Many of the classic examples of adaptive radiation, including Caribbean Anolis lizards, are
found on islands. However, Anolis also exhibits substantial species richness and …

… Luke Mahler , … Luke Mahler … Phylogenetic distances among species were calculated
as patristic distances from the ultrametric maximum clade credibility tree of Mahler et al. (2010). …