2011. Neutral biodiversity theory can explain the imbal- ance of phylogenetic trees but not the tempo of their diversi- fication. Evolution 65: 1841-1850.Davies, T.J., Allen, A.P., Borda-de-A gua, L., Regetz, J. & Melian, C.J. (2011). Neutral biodiversity theory can explain ...
7,12) large, densely sampled phylogenetic trees with robust divergence time estimates have been lacking for insects, the most species-rich terrestrial animal group. Here, we generate the first species-level phylogeny of the brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae), the most diverse butterfly family (...
Other limitations of the study include ignoring reproductive traits like seed mass or fecundity that have proved to be powerful predictors of invasion success in pines and other woody species [54], and failing to account for phylogenetic distances among pairs of species, as well...
Tens of thousands of phylogenetic trees, describing the evolutionary relationships between hundreds of thousands of taxa, are readily obtainable from various databases. From such trees, inferences can be made about the underlying macroevolutionary processes, yet remarkably these processes are still poorly ...