![]() ![]() Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7. Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. The global diversity of birds in space and time. A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies. Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics. Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models. Colloquium paper: are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians. Temperate extinction in squamate reptiles and the roots of latitudinal diversity gradients. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity. Phylogenetic patterns in the geographic distributions of birds support the tropical conservatism hypothesis. The impact of Cenozoic cooling on assemblage diversity in planktonic foraminifera. ![]() Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments. Dispersal is a major driver of the latitudinal diversity gradient of Carnivora. Evolutionary history of lagomorphs in response to global environmental change. Evolutionary consequences of changes in species’ geographical distributions driven by Milankovitch climate oscillations. A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals. How variation between individuals affects species coexistence. The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology. Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology. Compilation and time-series analysis of a marine carbonate δ 18O, δ 13C, 87Sr/ 86Sr and δ 34S database through Earth history. Ocean overturning since the Late Cretaceous: inferences from a new benthic foraminiferal isotope compilation. An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Niche width impacts vertebrate diversification. Thermal Adaptation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. Parental care: the key to understanding endothermy and other convergent features in birds and mammals. Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude. Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Rates of change in climatic niches in plant and animal populations are much slower than projected climate change. Linking life-history traits, ecology, and niche breadth evolution in North American eriogonoids (Polygonaceae). Tectonic-driven climate change and the diversification of angiosperms. Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species. Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness. Could the tree diversity pattern in Europe be generated by postglacial dispersal limitation? Ecol. The niche of higher plants: evidence for phylogenetic conservatism. Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale. Niche conservatism: integrating evolution, ecology, and conservation biology. We further demonstrate that the diversity patterns of the four clades are directly affected by the rate of niche evolution, with fewer latitudinal shifts in ectotherms. ![]() By reconstructing historical shifts in geographical ranges and climatic niches, we show that niche shifts are significantly faster in endotherms (birds and mammals) than in ectotherms (squamates and amphibians). Here, we compare the evolution of climatic niches in four main groups of terrestrial vertebrates using a modelling approach integrating both palaeontological and neontological data, and large-scale datasets that contain information on the current distributions, phylogenetic relationships and fossil records for a total of 11,465 species. Although reconstructing past niches has always been a major concern for palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists, only a few recent studies have successfully determined the factors that affect niche evolution. Niche evolution is poorly understood at both the macroecological and macroevolutionary scales, as niches can shift over short periods of time but appear to change more slowly over longer timescales. Understanding the mechanisms by which the abiotic and biotic requirements of species, or ecological niches, change over time is a central issue in evolutionary biology. ![]()
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