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Michael J. Donoghue

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Diversification in evolutionary arenas - assessment and synthesis

2019

Abstract Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a central issue in evolutionary biology and ecology. The concept of adaptive radiation has attracted much interest, but is metaphorical and verbal in nature, making it difficult to quantitatively compare different evolutionary lineages or geographic regions. In addition, the causes of evolutionary stasis are relatively neglected. Here we review the central concepts in the evolutionary diversification literature and bring these together by proposing a general framework for estimating rates of diversification and quantifying their underlying dynamics, which can be applied across clades and regions and across spat…

trait disparification570EvolutionEcology (disciplines)media_common.quotation_subjectNicheContext (language use)Diversification (marketing strategy)580 Plants (Botany)2309 Nature and Landscape ConservationBehavior and SystematicsAdaptive radiationmacroevolutionary theory10211 Zurich-Basel Plant Science CenterTemporal scalesmedia_commonNature and Landscape Conservation580Ecological nicheEcology10121 Department of Systematic and Evolutionary BotanyGeography1105 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematicsconifer phylogenyEvolutionary biologyphylogenetic comparative methodsspecies diversificationConceptual modeladaptive radiation2303 Ecology
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Walter Zimmermann and the Growth of Phylogenetic Theory

1992

seminal theoretical paper, "Arbeitsweise der botanischen Phylogenetik und anderer Gruppierungswissenschaften" ("Methods of botanical phylogenetics and other grouping sciences"), first published in 1931. In this paper, Zimmermann clearly ex? pressed many of the underlying principles of phylogenetic systematics?ideas that were later taken up by Hennig and formed the core of his theory. Zimmermann also focused attention on several basic meth?

Phylogenetic treePhylogeneticsEvolutionary biologyCore (graph theory)GeneticsPhylogenetic systematicsBiologyEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsSystematic Biology
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Diversification in evolutionary arenas – assessment and synthesis

2020

Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a central issue in evolutionary biology, ecology and biogeography. The concept of adaptive radiation has attracted much interest, but is metaphorical and verbal in nature, making it difficult to quantitatively compare different evolutionary lineages or geographic regions. In addition, the causes of evolutionary stasis are relatively neglected. Here we review the central concepts in the evolutionary diversification literature and bring these together by proposing a general framework for studying rates of diversification and quantifying their underlying dynamics, which can be applied across clades and regions and across s…

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