ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Radiation of tropical island bees and the role of phylogenetic niche conservatism as an important driver of biodiversity.
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- Genomics Reveal Population Crash and Range Contraction in Elusive FijianEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Temperature and precipitation explain variation in metabolic rate but not frequency of gas exchange in Fijian bees.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Network Assemblages of Elevational Niche-Associated Diversity in Fijian Native Bees.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Disentangling evolutionary, geometric and ecological components of the elevational gradient of diversity.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Isotopic niches do not follow the expectations of niche conservatism in the bird genus Cinclodes.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Article
- Phylogenetic climatic niche conservatism in sandflies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) and their relatives.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Island biogeography explores how biodiversity in island ecosystems arises and is maintained. The topographical complexity of islands can drive speciation by providing a diversity of niches that promote adaptive radiation and speciation. However, recent studies have argued that phylogenetic niche conservatism, combined with topographical complexity and climate change, could also promote speciation if populations are episodically fragmented into climate refugia that enable allopatric speciation. Adaptive radiation and phylogenetic niche conservatism therefore both predict that topographical complexity should encourage speciation, but they differ strongly in their inferred mechanisms. Using genetic (mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)) and morphological data, we show high species diversity (22 species) in an endemic clade of Fijian
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