Search Results - "Harmon, Luke J."

Species Diversity Is Dynamic and Unbounded at Local and Continental Scales by Harmon, Luke J., Harrison, Susan

“…We argue that biotas at scales from local communities to entire continents are nearly always open to new species and that their diversities are far from any…”
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A Novel Bayesian Method for Inferring and Interpreting the Dynamics of Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Comparative Data by Uyeda, Josef C., Harmon, Luke J.

“…Our understanding of macroevolutionary patterns of adaptive evolution has greatly increased with the advent of large-scale phylogenetic comparative methods…”
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Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation by Wagner, Catherine E., Harmon, Luke J., Seehausen, Ole

“…Adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in the African Great Lakes is predictable, but only when species traits and environmental factors are jointly considered…”
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An integrative view of phylogenetic comparative methods: connections to population genetics, community ecology, and paleobiology by Pennell, Matthew W., Harmon, Luke J.

“…Recent innovations in phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) have spurred a renaissance of research into the causes and consequences of large‐scale patterns…”
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Evolution in a Community Context: On Integrating Ecological Interactions and Macroevolution by Weber, Marjorie G., Wagner, Catherine E., Best, Rebecca J., Harmon, Luke J., Matthews, Blake

“…Despite a conceptual understanding that evolution and species interactions are inextricably linked, it remains challenging to study ecological and evolutionary…”
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geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees by Pennell, Matthew W, Eastman, Jonathan M, Slater, Graham J, Brown, Joseph W, Uyeda, Josef C, FitzJohn, Richard G, Alfaro, Michael E, Harmon, Luke J

“…Phylogenetic comparative methods are essential for addressing evolutionary hypotheses with interspecific data. The scale and scope of such data have increased…”
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Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation by Nosil, Patrik, Harmon, Luke J., Seehausen, Ole

“…Divergent natural selection has been shown to promote speciation in many taxa. However, although divergent selection often initiates the process of speciation,…”
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Predicting rates of interspecific interaction from phylogenetic trees by Nuismer, Scott L., Harmon, Luke J.

“…Integrating phylogenetic information can potentially improve our ability to explain species' traits, patterns of community assembly, the network structure of…”
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GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations by Harmon, Luke J., Weir, Jason T., Brock, Chad D., Glor, Richard E., Challenger, Wendell

“…GEIGER is a new software package, written in the R language, to describe evolutionary radiations. GEIGER can carry out simulations, parameter estimation and…”
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Nested radiations and the pulse of angiosperm diversification: increased diversification rates often follow whole genome duplications by Tank, David C., Eastman, Jonathan M., Pennell, Matthew W., Soltis, Pamela S., Soltis, Douglas E., Hinchliff, Cody E., Brown, Joseph W., Sessa, Emily B., Harmon, Luke J.

“…Our growing understanding of the plant tree of life provides a novel opportunity to uncover the major drivers of angiosperm diversity. Using a time-calibrated…”
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"SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT": REPLICATED ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION AT WHITE SANDS by Rosenblum, Erica Bree, Harmon, Luke J.

“…Understanding the factors that promote or inhibit species formation remains a central focus in evolutionary biology. It has been difficult to make generalities…”
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Did genome duplication drive the origin of teleosts? A comparative study of diversification in ray-finned fishes by Santini, Francesco, Harmon, Luke J, Carnevale, Giorgio, Alfaro, Michael E

“…One of the main explanations for the stunning diversity of teleost fishes (approximately 29,000 species, nearly half of all vertebrates) is that a…”
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Nine Exceptional Radiations Plus High Turnover Explain Species Diversity in Jawed Vertebrates by Alfaro, Michael E., Santini, Francesco, Brock, Chad, Alamillo, Hugo, Dornburg, Alex, Rabosky, Daniel L., Carnevale, Giorgio, Harmon, Luke J., Hillis, David M.

“…The uneven distribution of species richness is a fundamental and unexplained pattern of vertebrate biodiversity. Although species richness in groups like…”
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A Comprehensive Study of Cyanobacterial Morphological and Ecological Evolutionary Dynamics through Deep Geologic Time by Uyeda, Josef C, Harmon, Luke J, Blank, Carrine E

“…Cyanobacteria have exerted a profound influence on the progressive oxygenation of Earth. As a complementary approach to examining the geologic…”
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A NOVEL COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SHIFTS IN THE RATE OF CHARACTER EVOLUTION ON TREES by Eastman, Jonathan M., Alfaro, Michael E., Joyce, Paul, Hipp, Andrew L., Harmon, Luke J.

“…Evolutionary biologists since Darwin have been fascinated by differences in the rate of trait-evolutionary change across lineages. Despite this continued…”
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Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa by Gillespie, Rosemary G, Bennett, Gordon M, De Meester, Luc, Feder, Jeffrey L, Fleischer, Robert C, Harmon, Luke J, Hendry, Andrew P, Knope, Matthew L, Mallet, James, Martin, Christopher, Parent, Christine E, Patton, Austin H, Pfennig, Karin S, Rubinoff, Daniel, Schluter, Dolph, Seehausen, Ole, Shaw, Kerry L, Stacy, Elizabeth, Stervander, Martin, Stroud, James T, Wagner, Catherine, Wogan, Guinevere O U

“…Abstract Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing…”
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Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution by Nuismer, Scott L, Week, Bob, Harmon, Luke J

“…AbstractStudies of coevolution in the wild have largely focused on reciprocally specialized species pairs with striking and exaggerated phenotypes. Textbook…”
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Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning by Harmon, Luke J., Matthews, Blake, Des Roches, Simone, Chase, Jonathan M., Shurin, Jonathan B., Schluter, Dolph

“…Changing places The evolutionary process of adaptive radiation depends on many ecological factors, but what of the reverse — the effect of adaptive radiation…”
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Mating behavior and reproductive morphology predict macroevolution of sex allocation in hermaphroditic flatworms by Brand, Jeremias N, Harmon, Luke J, Schärer, Lukas

“…Sex allocation is the distribution of resources to male or female reproduction. In hermaphrodites, this concerns an individual's resource allocation to, for…”
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Hybridizing salamanders experience accelerated diversification by Patton, Austin H., Margres, Mark J., Epstein, Brendan, Eastman, Jon, Harmon, Luke J., Storfer, Andrew

“…Whether hybridization generates or erodes species diversity has long been debated, but to date most studies have been conducted at small taxonomic scales…”
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