Estimating rates of speciation and extinction, and understanding how and why they vary over
evolutionary time, geographical space and species groups, is a key to understanding how …

Historical patterns of species diversity inferred from phylogenies typically contradict the direct
evidence found in the fossil record. According to the fossil record, species frequently go …

The study of islands as model systems has played an important role in the development of
evolutionary and ecological theory. The 50th anniversary of MacArthur and Wilson's (…

Studies of phylogenetic diversification often show evidence for slowdowns in diversification
rates over the history of clades. Recent studies seeking biological explanations for this …

Growing concern about biodiversity loss underscores the need to quantify and understand
temporal change. Here, we review the opportunities presented by biodiversity time series, …

The increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics, referred to as the latitudinal
diversity gradient, is one of the most ubiquitous biodiversity patterns in the natural world. …

Predicting how biodiversity will be affected and will respond to human‐induced environmental
changes is one of the most critical challenges facing ecologists today. Here, we put …

Diversification rates vary over time, yet the factors driving these variations remain unclear.
Temporal declines in speciation rates have often been interpreted as the effect of ecological …

Species spatial turnover, or β‐diversity, induces a decay of community similarity with geographic
distance known as the distance–decay relationship. Although this relationship is central …

Eukaryotic plankton are a core component of marine ecosystems with exceptional taxonomic
and ecological diversity, yet how their ecology interacts with the environment to drive global …