ArticleScience advances2019
Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot.
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- Diversification patterns of the southwest Australian biodiversity hotspot reveal a novel macroevolutionary pathway to plant hyperdiversity.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Contrasting evolutionary trajectories of terrestrial vertebrates in the Hengduan Mountains hotspot.National science review · 2025Article
- Mammalian diversification bursts and biotic turnovers are synchronous with Cenozoic geoclimatic events in Asia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates.Science advances · 2021Article
- Dynamics behind disjunct distribution, hotspot-edge refugia, and discordant RADseq/mtDNA variability: insights from the Emei mustache toad.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- RevisedRoyal Society open science · 2020Article
- Angiosperm speciation cools down in the tropics.Ecology letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
Why is species diversity so unevenly distributed across different regions on Earth? Regional differences in biodiversity may stem from differences in rates of speciation and dispersal and colonization times, but these hypotheses have rarely been tested simultaneously at a global scale. Our study reveals the macroevolutionary routes that have generated hotspots of mammal and bird biodiversity by analyzing the tempo and mode of diversification and dispersal within major biogeographic realms. Hotspots in tropical realms had higher rates of speciation, whereas those in temperate realms received more immigrant species from their surrounding regions. We also found that hotspots had higher spatial complexity and energy availability, providing a link between the environment and macroevolutionary history. Our study highlights how assessing differences in macroevolutionary history can help to explain why biodiversity varies so much worldwide.
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