Published in Ecol Lett on October 01, 2010
Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 2.75
Global gradients in vertebrate diversity predicted by historical area-productivity dynamics and contemporary environment. PLoS Biol (2012) 2.17
The niche, biogeography and species interactions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.68
Geographical ecology of the palms (Arecaceae): determinants of diversity and distributions across spatial scales. Ann Bot (2011) 1.53
Does climate limit species richness by limiting individual species' ranges? Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.50
Different effects of invader-native phylogenetic relatedness on invasion success and impact: a meta-analysis of Darwin's naturalization hypothesis. Proc Biol Sci (2016) 1.47
Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.39
Rivaling the world's smallest reptiles: discovery of miniaturized and microendemic new species of leaf chameleons (Brookesia) from northern Madagascar. PLoS One (2012) 1.28
Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.27
Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.26
Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2013) 1.23
The latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.20
Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.15
Temperate mountain forest biodiversity under climate change: compensating negative effects by increasing structural complexity. PLoS One (2014) 1.14
Why are there so many species in the tropics? J Biogeogr (2014) 1.14
Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.12
Rapid evolution of quantitative traits: theoretical perspectives. Evol Appl (2013) 1.10
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of coexisting lineages during a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.07
Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.02
Molecular phylogeny of the bivalve superfamily Galeommatoidea (Heterodonta, Veneroida) reveals dynamic evolution of symbiotic lifestyle and interphylum host switching. BMC Evol Biol (2012) 1.02
Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests. J Biogeogr (2014) 1.01
Thermal niches are more conserved at cold than warm limits in arctic-alpine plant species. Glob Ecol Biogeogr (2013) 1.01
Are species' responses to global change predicted by past niche evolution? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2013) 0.98
Conservatism of lizard thermal tolerances and body temperatures across evolutionary history and geography. Biol Lett (2013) 0.98
Differential niche dynamics among major marine invertebrate clades. Ecol Lett (2013) 0.98
Disentangling the effect of body size and phylogenetic distances on zooplankton top-down control of algae. Proc Biol Sci (2016) 0.96
Contemporary climate change and terrestrial invertebrates: evolutionary versus plastic changes. Evol Appl (2013) 0.96
Phylogeny and niche conservatism in North and Central American triatomine bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), vectors of Chagas' disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2014) 0.96
Evolution of climatic niche specialization: a phylogenetic analysis in amphibians. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.95
Dispersal and niche evolution jointly shape the geographic turnover of phylogenetic clades across continents. Sci Rep (2013) 0.95
A Latitudinal Diversity Gradient in Terrestrial Bacteria of the Genus Streptomyces. MBio (2016) 0.94
Theoretical perspectives on the statics and dynamics of species' borders in patchy environments. Am Nat (2011) 0.94
Global phylogenetic structure of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole reveals the repeated evolution of macroecological patterns. Proc Biol Sci (2015) 0.94
Morphological similarity and ecological overlap in two rotifer species. PLoS One (2013) 0.94
Environment drives high phylogenetic turnover among oceanic bacterial communities. Biol Lett (2012) 0.93
Phylogenetic relatedness as a tool in restoration ecology: a meta-analysis. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 0.93
Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 0.92
The geography and ecology of plant speciation: range overlap and niche divergence in sister species. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.92
Reconstructing the origins of high-alpine niches and cushion life form in the genus Androsace S.L. (Primulaceae). Evolution (2011) 0.91
The ratio and concentration of two monoterpenes mediate fecundity of the pinewood nematode and growth of its associated fungi. PLoS One (2012) 0.91
A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies. Biol J Linn Soc Lond (2015) 0.90
Are we overestimating the niche? Removing marginal localities helps ecological niche models detect environmental barriers. Ecol Evol (2016) 0.90
What story does geographic separation of insular bats tell? A case study on Sardinian rhinolophids. PLoS One (2014) 0.89
Global invasion of Lantana camara: has the climatic niche been conserved across continents? PLoS One (2014) 0.88
Phylogenetic fields of species: cross-species patterns of phylogenetic structure and geographical coexistence. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 0.87
Historical distribution of Sundaland's Dipterocarp rainforests at Quaternary glacial maxima. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 0.86
Neutral biogeography and the evolution of climatic niches. Am Nat (2014) 0.86
Trophic specialization influences the rate of environmental niche evolution in damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.86
A taxonomic comparison of local habitat niches of tropical trees. Oecologia (2013) 0.86
Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level. Nat Commun (2016) 0.85
Species matter: the role of competition in the assembly of congeneric bacteria. ISME J (2013) 0.85
The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change. Ecol Lett (2013) 0.85
pH influences the importance of niche-related and neutral processes in lacustrine bacterioplankton assembly. Appl Environ Microbiol (2015) 0.85
Phylogenetic niche conservatism in C4 grasses. Oecologia (2012) 0.85
Can environment predict cryptic diversity? The case of Niphargus inhabiting Western Carpathian groundwater. PLoS One (2013) 0.84
Does land-use intensification decrease plant phylogenetic diversity in local grasslands? PLoS One (2014) 0.84
Chimpanzee population structure in Cameroon and Nigeria is associated with habitat variation that may be lost under climate change. BMC Evol Biol (2015) 0.84
Evolutionary lag times and recent origin of the biota of an ancient desert (Atacama-Sechura). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 0.83
More closely related plants have more distinct mycorrhizal communities. AoB Plants (2014) 0.83
Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 0.82
Phylogenetic patterns of climatic, habitat and trophic niches in a European avian assemblage. Glob Ecol Biogeogr (2014) 0.82
Variation in seed germination of 134 common species on the eastern Tibetan Plateau: phylogenetic, life history and environmental correlates. PLoS One (2014) 0.82
Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes. Nat Commun (2016) 0.82
The evolutionary origins of diadromy inferred from a time-calibrated phylogeny for Clupeiformes (herring and allies). Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.82
Phenotypes in phylogeography: Species' traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2016) 0.82
Species interactions during diversification and community assembly in an island radiation of shrews. PLoS One (2011) 0.81
Niche divergence accelerates evolution in Asian endemic Procapra gazelles. Sci Rep (2015) 0.81
Niche divergence promotes rapid diversification of East African sky island white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae). Mol Ecol (2014) 0.81
Phylogenetic niche conservatism - common pitfalls and ways forward. Funct Ecol (2015) 0.81
Niche tracking and rapid establishment of distributional equilibrium in the house sparrow show potential responsiveness of species to climate change. PLoS One (2012) 0.81
What Can Interaction Webs Tell Us About Species Roles? PLoS Comput Biol (2015) 0.80
Latitudinal diversity gradients in New World bats: are they a consequence of niche conservatism? PLoS One (2013) 0.80
Divergence at the edges: peripatric isolation in the montane spiny throated reed frog complex. BMC Evol Biol (2015) 0.80
Small-scale spatial variability in phylogenetic community structure during early plant succession depends on soil properties. Oecologia (2014) 0.79
Temperate snake community in South America: is diet determined by phylogeny or ecology? PLoS One (2015) 0.79
Strong phylogenetic signals and phylogenetic niche conservatism in ecophysiological traits across divergent lineages of Magnoliaceae. Sci Rep (2015) 0.79
On the processes generating latitudinal richness gradients: identifying diagnostic patterns and predictions. Front Genet (2014) 0.79
Shared ancestry influences community stability by altering competitive interactions: evidence from a laboratory microcosm experiment using freshwater green algae. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 0.79
Phylogenetic conservatism and climate factors shape flowering phenology in alpine meadows. Oecologia (2016) 0.78
Frequent but asymmetric niche shifts in Bulbophyllum orchids support environmental and climatic instability in Madagascar over Quaternary time scales. BMC Evol Biol (2016) 0.78
The building of a biodiversity hotspot across a land-bridge in the Mediterranean. Proc Biol Sci (2015) 0.78
Long-term competitive dynamics of two cryptic rotifer species: diapause and fluctuating conditions. PLoS One (2015) 0.78
Continental scale patterns and predictors of fern richness and phylogenetic diversity. Front Genet (2015) 0.77
Arbuscular mycorrhizal interactions of mycoheterotrophic Thismia are more specialized than in autotrophic plants. New Phytol (2016) 0.77
Insect herbivores should follow plants escaping their relatives. Oecologia (2014) 0.77
Phylogenetic plant community structure along elevation is lineage specific. Ecol Evol (2013) 0.77
Evaluating community-environment relationships along fine to broad taxonomic resolutions reveals evolutionary forces underlying community assembly. ISME J (2016) 0.77
Habitat partitioning and morphological differentiation: the Southeast Asian Draco lizards and Caribbean Anolis lizards compared. Oecologia (2014) 0.76
Transitions between Andean and Amazonian centers of endemism in the radiation of some arboreal rodents. BMC Evol Biol (2013) 0.76
Historical and current introgression in a Mesoamerican hummingbird species complex: a biogeographic perspective. PeerJ (2016) 0.76
Shedding light on the 'dark side' of phylogenetic comparative methods. Methods Ecol Evol (2016) 0.76
The Effect of Host-Plant Phylogenetic Isolation on Species Richness, Composition and Specialization of Insect Herbivores: A Comparison between Native and Exotic Hosts. PLoS One (2015) 0.76
Comparative analysis of Japanese three-spined stickleback clades reveals the Pacific Ocean lineage has adapted to freshwater environments while the Japan Sea has not. PLoS One (2014) 0.76
Did southern Western Ghats of peninsular India serve as refugia for its endemic biota during the Cretaceous volcanism? Ecol Evol (2013) 0.76
Ecological determinants of mean family age of angiosperm trees in forest communities in China. Sci Rep (2016) 0.75
Can Recent Global Changes Explain the Dramatic Range Contraction of an Endangered Semi-Aquatic Mammal Species in the French Pyrenees? PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Phenotypic disparity in Iberian short-horned grasshoppers (Acrididae): the role of ecology and phylogeny. BMC Evol Biol (2017) 0.75
Phylogenetic niche conservatism explains an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in freshwater arthropods. Sci Rep (2016) 0.75
Opposing Patterns of Seasonal Change in Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Tadpole Assemblages. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Climatic niche evolution in New World monkeys (Platyrrhini). PLoS One (2013) 0.75
The worldwide leaf economics spectrum. Nature (2004) 20.42
Trophic downgrading of planet Earth. Science (2011) 14.39
Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology. Bioinformatics (2010) 9.84
Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution. Bioinformatics (2008) 7.91
The velocity of climate change. Nature (2009) 6.79
Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. Nature (2010) 6.55
Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecol Lett (2010) 6.36
Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography. Ecol Lett (2007) 5.46
The pace of shifting climate in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Science (2011) 4.97
A brief history of seed size. Science (2005) 4.87
Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science (2011) 4.21
Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science (2008) 4.13
Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science (2011) 3.85
Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends Ecol Evol (2007) 3.71
The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 3.62
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2012) 3.49
The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2012) 3.40
Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora. PLoS One (2008) 3.28
A framework for community interactions under climate change. Trends Ecol Evol (2010) 3.27
Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems. Nature (2003) 3.26
A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume. Ecology (2006) 3.19
Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data. Evolution (2010) 2.97
Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. Am Nat (2007) 2.79
Trophic cascades across ecosystems. Nature (2005) 2.69
The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science (2010) 2.53
Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 2.40
Dinosaur fossils predict body temperatures. PLoS Biol (2006) 2.21
A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 2.20
Invasion in a heterogeneous world: resistance, coexistence or hostile takeover? Ecol Lett (2007) 2.18
Opposing rainfall and plant nutritional gradients best explain the wildebeest migration in the Serengeti. Am Nat (2009) 2.17
Factors that shape seed mass evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.09
Road will ruin Serengeti. Nature (2010) 2.07
Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history. Ecol Lett (2009) 2.02
A disease-mediated trophic cascade in the Serengeti and its implications for ecosystem C. PLoS Biol (2009) 2.00
Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types. Nature (2012) 1.94
Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests. Ann Bot (2006) 1.91
Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.83
Herbivore responses to plant secondary compounds: a test of phytochemical coevolution theory. Am Nat (2003) 1.80
Plant-pollinator interactions and the assembly of plant communities. Trends Ecol Evol (2008) 1.74
Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade? Trends Ecol Evol (2008) 1.69
Grazers, browsers, and fire influence the extent and spatial pattern of tree cover in the Serengeti. Ecol Appl (2009) 1.67
Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.67
Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecol Lett (2009) 1.67
Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule? Nature (2007) 1.67
The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.61
The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.58
Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals. Ecology (2011) 1.54
Sacred cows and sympathetic squirrels: the importance of biological diversity to human health. PLoS Med (2006) 1.53
Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 1.50
Temperature-dependence of biomass accumulation rates during secondary succession. Ecol Lett (2006) 1.44
Assessing the role of cladogenesis in macroevolution by integrating fossil and molecular evidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.40
Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles. Ecol Lett (2011) 1.39
Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.39
Evolutionary consequences of asymmetric dispersal rates. Am Nat (2002) 1.37
Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity. Am J Bot (2010) 1.37
Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Glob Chang Biol (2013) 1.34
The inflationary effects of environmental fluctuations in source-sink systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 1.33
Phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary rescue experiments. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2013) 1.30
Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature (2004) 1.29
Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe. Glob Chang Biol (2013) 1.28
Species' traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies. Ecology (2011) 1.26
Energetics of life on the deep seafloor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.25
Predicted impact of barriers to migration on the Serengeti wildebeest population. PLoS One (2011) 1.24
Spatial flows and the regulation of ecosystems. Am Nat (2004) 1.19
Vaccine-induced pathogen strain replacement: what are the mechanisms? J R Soc Interface (2008) 1.18
Coevolution drives temporal changes in fitness and diversity across environments in a bacteria-bacteriophage interaction. Evolution (2008) 1.16
The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. X. Variation versus uncertainty. Ecol Evol (2012) 1.16
Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.15
Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world's oceans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.15
Landscape connectivity promotes plant biodiversity spillover into non-target habitats. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.15
Complex life cycles and the responses of insects to climate change. Integr Comp Biol (2011) 1.15
Linking community size structure and ecosystem functioning using metabolic theory. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2012) 1.14
Dynamics and responses to mortality rates of competing predators undergoing predator-prey cycles. Theor Popul Biol (2003) 1.14
Predation on mutualists can reduce the strength of trophic cascades. Ecol Lett (2006) 1.11
Hydraulic architecture and the evolution of shoot allometry in contrasting climates. Am J Bot (2003) 1.10
Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California. Glob Chang Biol (2014) 1.10
Refuge-mediated apparent competition in plant-consumer interactions. Ecol Lett (2009) 1.09
Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease? Comment. Ecology (2016) 1.09
Adult and larval traits as determinants of geographic range size among tropical reef fishes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.08
The relation of density regulation to habitat specialization, evolution of a species' range, and the dynamics of biological invasions. Am Nat (2008) 1.08
Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution. Nat Commun (2013) 1.07
Alternative stable states and regional community structure. J Theor Biol (2004) 1.07
Replicate patterns of species richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctic treefrogs. Evolution (2005) 1.06
The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography of modern mammal diversity. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.06
Temporal autocorrelation can enhance the persistence and abundance of metapopulations comprised of coupled sinks. Am Nat (2005) 1.05
Linking global patterns in biodiversity to evolutionary dynamics using metabolic theory. Ecology (2007) 1.04