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A quantitative framework to infer the effect of traits, diversity and environme...
Silvestro, Daniele
Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research
Antonelli, Alexandre; Ariza, María A.; Albert, James Spurling; Andermann, Tobias; Azevedo, Josué A.R.; Bacon, Christine D.; Faurby, SørenThe unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our understanding of the origin and diversification of many Neotropical taxa and biotic regions, many questions remain to be answered. Additional biological and geological data are still needed, as well as methodological advances that ar...
Estimating age-dependent extinction: contrasting evidence from fossils and phyl...
Silvestro, Daniele
Building up biogeography: Pattern to process
Pearse, William D.; Barbosa, A. Márcia; Fritz, Susanne A.; Keith, Sally A.; Harmon, Luke J.; Harte, John; Silvestro, Daniele; Xiao, XiaoLinking pattern to process across spatial and temporal scales has been a key goal of the field of biogeography. In January 2017, the 8th biennial conference of the International Biogeography Society sponsored a symposium on Building up biogeography—process to pattern that aimed to review progress towards this goal. Here we present a summary of the symposium, in which we identified promising areas of current res...