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A New Species of the Eleutherodactylus myersi (Anura: Leptodactylidae) Assembly from Ecuador

scholarly article by John J. Wiens & Luis A. Coloma published June 1992 in Journal of Herpetology

A Phylogenetic Analysis of Spea (Anura: Pelobatidae)

scientific article published in 1991

A Revised Phylogeny of Holarctic Treefrogs (Genus Hyla) Based on Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

article

A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

scientific article published on 09 October 2007

A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

A phylogenetic hot spot for evolutionary novelty in Middle American treefrogs

scientific article published in September 2007

A phylogenetic perspective on elevational species richness patterns in Middle American treefrogs: why so few species in lowland tropical rainforests?

scientific article

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

academic work

A62 A major likelihood-based approach gives problematic estimates of diversification dynamics and rates

article by Chenlu Di et al published 22 August 2019 in Virus Evolution

Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

An expanded phylogeny of treefrogs (Hylidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data

scientific article

Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Asynchronous colonization of Madagascar by the four endemic clades of primates, tenrecs, carnivores, and rodents as inferred from nuclear genes

scientific article

BAMM gives misleading rate estimates in simulated and empirical datasets

article

Branch lengths, support, and congruence: testing the phylogenomic approach with 20 nuclear loci in snakes

scientific article published in June 2008

Bridging the gap between community ecology and historical biogeography: niche conservatism and community structure in emydid turtles

scientific article

Can Incomplete Taxa Rescue Phylogenetic Analyses from Long-Branch Attraction?

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Can parallel diversification occur in sympatry? Repeated patterns of body-size evolution in coexisting clades of North American salamanders

scientific article

Causes of warm-edge range limits: systematic review, proximate factors and implications for climate change

article

Character analysis in morphological phylogenetics: problems and solutions

scientific article

Climate change is projected to outpace rates of niche change in grasses

scientific article

Climate change, extinction, and Sky Island biogeography in a montane lizard

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Climate-Related Local Extinctions Are Already Widespread among Plant and Animal Species

scientific article

Climatic niche breadth and species richness in temperate treefrogs

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Climatic niche divergence drives patterns of diversification and richness among mammal families.

scientific article

Climatic zonation drives latitudinal variation in speciation mechanisms

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2007)

Climatic-niche evolution follows similar rules in plants and animals

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Climatic‐niche breadth, niche position, and speciation in lizards and snakes

scientific article published on 27 January 2024

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

scientific article

Combining phylogenomics and fossils in higher-level squamate reptile phylogeny: molecular data change the placement of fossil taxa

scientific article

Commentary on Losos (2008): niche conservatism déjà vu.

scientific article published in October 2008

Community assembly through evolutionary diversification and dispersal in Middle American treefrogs

scientific article published on 3 August 2009

Comparing macroecological patterns across continents: evolution of climatic niche breadth in varanid lizards

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Contrasting global-scale evolutionary radiations: phylogeny, diversification, and morphological evolution in the major clades of iguanian lizards

article

Convergence, divergence, and homogenization in the ecological structure of emydid turtle communities: the effects of phylogeny and dispersal

scientific article published on 28 June 2004

Correlated and decoupled evolution of adult and larval body size in frogs

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Corrigendum to "When do species-tree and concatenated estimates disagree? An empirical analysis with higher-level scincid lizard phylogeny". [Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 82A (2015) 146-155].

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Corrigendum to Quintero & Wiens (2013)

scholarly article published in Ecology Letters

Crest evolution in newts: implications for reconstruction methods, sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity and the origin of novelties

scientific article

Delimiting species using DNA and morphological variation and discordant species limits in spiny lizards (Sceloporus).

scientific article

Demystifying the marine-terrestrial biodiversity gradient: response to Vermeij et al

scientific article published on 02 April 2018

Digit reduction, body size, and paedomorphosis in salamanders

scientific article published in July 2008

Diversification rates and species richness across the Tree of Life

scientific article published in September 2016

Diversification rates are more strongly related to microhabitat than climate in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes).

scientific article

Diversification rates, clade ages, and macroevolutionary methods

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Diversity and niche evolution along aridity gradients in north american lizards (phrynosomatidae).

scientific article published on 8 February 2013

Do Alignment and Trimming Methods Matter for Phylogenomic (UCE) Analyses?

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Do missing data influence the accuracy of divergence-time estimation with BEAST?

scientific article

Do mutualistic interactions last longer than antagonistic interactions?

scientific article published on 08 September 2021

Do sexually selected weapons drive diversification?

scientific article published in 2021

Does niche conservatism promote speciation? A case study in North American salamanders

scientific article

EVOLUTION OF ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY: RISK-SENSITIVE HATCHING IN NEOTROPICAL LEAF-BREEDING TREEFROGS

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Ecological causes of decelerating diversification in carnivoran mammals

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Ecological radiation with limited morphological diversification in salamanders

scientific article

Estimating divergence dates and evaluating dating methods using phylogenomic and mitochondrial data in squamate reptiles

scientific article

Estimating diversification rates for higher taxa: BAMM can give problematic estimates of rates and rate shifts

scientific article published on 21 October 2017

Estimating rates and patterns of morphological evolution from phylogenies: lessons in limb lability from Australian Lerista lizards

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Evaluating methods for phylogenomic analyses, and a new phylogeny for a major frog clade (Hyloidea) based on 2214 loci.

scientific article

Evolution of climatic niche specialization: a phylogenetic analysis in amphibians ⬇️

scientific article

Evolution of diet across the animal tree of life

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Evolution of paedomorphosis in plethodontid salamanders: ecological correlates and re-evolution of metamorphosis

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Evolution of rapid development in spadefoot toads is unrelated to arid environments

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Evolution of sexual size dimorphisms in emydid turtles: ecological dimorphism, rensch's rule, and sympatric divergence

scientific article published on 2 January 2009

Evolution of the Lizard Family Phrynosomatidae as Inferred from Diverse Types of Data

scientific article published in 1996

Evolution of viviparity: a phylogenetic test of the cold-climate hypothesis in phrynosomatid lizards

scientific article

Evolutionary and biogeographic origins of high tropical diversity in old world frogs (Ranidae).

scientific article

Evolutionary and ecological causes of species richness patterns in North American angiosperm trees

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Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical diversity

scientific article published on 21 September 2006

Evolutionary conservatism and convergence both lead to striking similarity in ecology, morphology and performance across continents in frogs

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Evolutionary lag times and recent origin of the biota of an ancient desert (Atacama-Sechura)

scientific article (publication date: 9 July 2013)

Explaining Andean megadiversity: the evolutionary and ecological causes of glassfrog elevational richness patterns

scientific article

Explaining Species Richness from Continents to Communities: The Time‐for‐Speciation Effect in Emydid Turtles

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Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity

scientific article

Explaining the ocean's richest biodiversity hotspot and global patterns of fish diversity

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Extinction and time help drive the marine-terrestrial biodiversity gradient: is the ocean a deathtrap?

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

Faster diversification on land than sea helps explain global biodiversity patterns among habitats and animal phyla

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Global patterns of diversification and species richness in amphibians

scientific article

Herbivory increases diversification across insect clades

scientific article

Hidden hotspots of amphibian biodiversity in China

scientific article published in 2024

Higher temperatures lower rates of physiological and niche evolution

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Highly incomplete taxa can rescue phylogenetic analyses from the negative impacts of limited taxon sampling

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness

scientific article (publication date: December 2004)

Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity in Evolution

How Should Genes and Taxa be Sampled for Phylogenomic Analyses with Missing Data? An Empirical Study in Iguanian Lizards

scientific article

How does climate change cause extinction? ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

How does climate influence speciation?

scientific article

How is the rate of climatic-niche evolution related to climatic-niche breadth?

scientific article

How many species will Earth lose to climate change?

scientific article published in January 2024

Hylid frog phylogeny and sampling strategies for speciose clades

scholarly article by John J Wiens et al published 1 October 2005 in Systematic Biology

Inferring introgression using RADseq and DFOIL : Power and pitfalls revealed in a case study of spiny lizards (Sceloporus)

scientific article published on 05 May 2019

Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life

scientific article published in September 2017

Integrated analyses resolve conflicts over squamate reptile phylogeny and reveal unexpected placements for fossil taxa

scientific article published in 2015

Integrating GIS-based environmental data into evolutionary biology

scientific article

Is diversification rate related to climatic niche width?

article

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2013)

Large‐scale evolution of body temperatures in land vertebrates

scientific article published on 13 August 2021

Latitudinal variation in speciation mechanisms in frogs

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Loss and re-evolution of complex life cycles in marsupial frogs: does ancestral trait reconstruction mislead?

scientific article published in August 2007

MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL DICHROMATISM AMONG POPULATIONS OF THE YARROW'S SPINY LIZARD (SCELOPORUS JARROVII).

scientific article

Microhabitat and Climatic Niche Change Explain Patterns of Diversification among Frog Families

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Missing Data, Incomplete Taxa, and Phylogenetic Accuracy

scholarly article by John J. Wiens published 1 August 2003 in Systematic Biology

Missing data and the design of phylogenetic analyses

scientific article

Missing data in phylogenetic analysis: reconciling results from simulations and empirical data

scientific article

Missing data, incomplete taxa, and phylogenetic accuracy

scientific article published in August 2003

Multicellularity Drives the Evolution of Sexual Traits

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology

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Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

scientific article (publication date: October 2010)

Niche conservatism drives elevational diversity patterns in Appalachian salamanders

scientific article

Niche conservatism over deep timescales and diverse niche axes in land vertebrates

scientific article published in 2023

Ontogeny discombobulates phylogeny: paedomorphosis and higher-level salamander relationships

scientific article

Ontogeny of the skeleton of Spea bombifrons (anura: Pelobatidae)

scientific article published on 01 October 1989

Out of the dark: 350 million years of conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL UNEXPECTED PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN FROGS

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Paleontology, genomics, and combined-data phylogenetics: can molecular data improve phylogeny estimation for fossil taxa?

scientific article

Parapatric divergence of sympatric morphs in a salamander: incipient speciation on Long Island?

scientific article

Patterns of Local Community Composition Are Linked to Large-Scale Diversification and Dispersal of Clades

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Patterns, Mechanisms and Genetics of Speciation in Reptiles and Amphibians

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Phylogenetic Relationships and Systematic Revision of Central Texas Hemidactyliine Plethodontid Salamanders

article

Phylogenetic Relationships if Hoplocercid Lizards: Coding and Combining Meristic, Morphometric, and Polymorphic Data Using Step Matrices

scientific article published in September 2003

Phylogenetic Relationships of Phrynosomatid Lizards and Monophyly of the Sceloporus Group

scientific article published on 3 May 1993

Phylogenetic Systematics of the Tree Lizards (Genus Urosaurus)

Phylogenetic evidence for a major reversal of life-history evolution in plethodontid salamanders

scientific article published on December 2004

Phylogenetic evidence for competitively driven divergence: body-size evolution in Caribbean treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteopilus).

scientific article published on 12 November 2008

Phylogenetic evidence for multiple losses of a sexually selected character in phrynosomatid lizards.

scientific article published in August 1999

Phylogenetic history underlies elevational biodiversity patterns in tropical salamanders

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2007)

Phylogenetic origins of local-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonian megadiversity.

scientific article published on 3 May 2011

Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial data, and a revised phylogeny for Sceloporus

scientific article

Phylogenomic analyses of more than 4000 nuclear loci resolve the origin of snakes among lizard families.

scientific article

Phylogenomic analyses reveal novel relationships among snake families

scientific article

Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Phylogeny of the Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus) Based on Molecular and Morphological Evidence

scientific article published in 1997

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2010)

Polymorphism in Systematics and Comparative Biology

article

REPLICATE PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS, HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND PHYLOGENY IN HOLARCTIC TREEFROGS

scientific article published in November 2005

Rapid Diversification and Time Explain Amphibian Richness at Different Scales in the Tropical Andes, Earth's Most Biodiverse Hotspot

scientific article

Rapid development of multiple nuclear loci for phylogenetic analysis using genomic resources: An example from squamate reptiles

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Rapid diversification, incomplete isolation, and the "speciation clock" in North American salamanders (Genus Plethodon): testing the hybrid swarm hypothesis of rapid radiation

scientific article published in December 2006

Rapid niche shifts in introduced species can be a million times faster than changes among native species and ten times faster than climate change

scientific article published on 06 July 2019

Rates and patterns in the evolution of snake-like body form in squamate reptiles: evidence for repeated re-evolution of lost digits and long-term persistence of intermediate body forms

scientific article

Rates of change in climatic niches in plant and animal populations are much slower than projected climate change

scientific article published in November 2016

Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species ⬇️

scientific article published on June 26, 2013

Re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs after more than 200 million years, and re-evaluating Dollo's law ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: May 2011)

Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Recurrent evolution of herbivory in small, cold-climate lizards: breaking the ecophysiological rules of reptilian herbivory

scientific article

Redefining Possible: Combining Phylogenomic and Supersparse Data in Frogs

scientific article published in 2023

Repeated evolution and reversibility of self-fertilization in the volvocine green algae

scientific article

Replicate patterns of species richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctic treefrogs

scientific article published in November 2005

Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2012)

SPECIATION AND ECOLOGY REVISITED: PHYLOGENETIC NICHE CONSERVATISM AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

article

Should genes with missing data be excluded from phylogenetic analyses?

scientific article

Songs versus colours versus horns: what explains the diversity of sexually selected traits?

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Speciation and ecology revisited: phylogenetic niche conservatism and the origin of species

scientific article published in January 2004

Species delimitation: new approaches for discovering diversity

scientific article

Species interactions have predictable impacts on diversification

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Systematics and Herpetology in the Age of Genomics

Testing Convergence Versus History: Convergence Dominates Phenotypic Evolution for over 150 Million Years in Frogs

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Testing for adaptive radiation: A new approach applied to Madagascar frogs*

scientific article published in 2021

Testing for evolutionary trade-offs in a phylogenetic context: ecological diversification and evolution of locomotor performance in emydid turtles

scientific article published on 22 November 2007

Testing the Relationships between Diversification, Species Richness, and Trait Evolution

scientific article

Testing the causes of richness patterns in the paleotropics: time and diversification in cycads (Cycadaceae)

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

Testing the role of climate in speciation: New methods and applications to squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

The Causes Of Species Richness Patterns Across Space, Time, And Clades And The Role Of “Ecological Limits” ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

The Tortoise and the Finch: Testing for island effects on diversification using two iconic Galápagos radiations

The niche, biogeography and species interactions ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2011)

The origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

The origins of global biodiversity on land, sea and freshwater

scientific article published in 2022

The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees

scientific article

The role of morphological data in phylogeny reconstruction

scientific article

Time Explains Regional Richness Patterns within Clades More Often than Diversification Rates or Area

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Trait‐based species richness: ecology and macroevolution

scientific article published on 4 April 2023

Using historical biogeography to test for community saturation

scientific article

Weapon performance drives weapon evolution

scientific article published in 2021

What Explains Patterns of Diversification and Richness among Animal Phyla?

scientific article published on 3 January 2017

What are the consequences of combining nuclear and mitochondrial data for phylogenetic analysis? Lessons from Plethodon salamanders and 13 other vertebrate clades

scientific article

What determines the climatic niche width of species? The role of spatial and temporal climatic variation in three vertebrate clades

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What drives diversification? Range expansion tops climate, life history, habitat and size in lizards and snakes

scientific article published in 2022

What explains high plant richness in East Asia? Time and diversification in the tribe Lysimachieae (Primulaceae).

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

What explains patterns of biodiversity across the Tree of Life?: New research is revealing the causes of the dramatic variation in species numbers across branches of the Tree of Life

scientific article

What explains patterns of species richness? The relative importance of climatic-niche evolution, morphological evolution, and ecological limits in salamanders

scientific article

When Are Phylogenetic Analyses Misled by Convergence? A Case Study in Texas Cave Salamanders

scholarly article by John J. Wiens et al published 1 August 2003 in Systematic Biology

When are phylogenetic analyses misled by convergence? A case study in Texas cave salamanders

scientific article published on August 2003

When do species-tree and concatenated estimates disagree? An empirical analysis with higher-level scincid lizard phylogeny

scientific article published on 12 October 2014

Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Why are there so few fish in the sea?

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2012)

Why does a trait evolve multiple times within a clade? Repeated evolution of snakelike body form in squamate reptiles

scientific article published in January 2006

Why is fruit colour so variable? Phylogenetic analyses reveal relationships between fruit‐colour evolution, biogeography and diversification

scientific article published in 2019

Widespread loss of sexually selected traits: how the peacock lost its spots

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