Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 16 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00128-8Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems around the world. This Review describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era; it also explores biogeographic patterns and conservation efforts for threatened species.

Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed meth...

Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed meth...

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This study examined the phylogenetic conservatism of flowering and fruiting in 78 climbing plant species relative to environmental gradients in a South Brazilian forest. Although species-level analys...

Human-made habitat modifications drive biodiversity loss, especially through land use changes. These modifications impact the structure and diversity of local assemblages, primarily through habitat lo...

Abstract. Assessing the geographic dimension of diversification is paramount to integrate macroecology and macroevolution. Estimating ancestral ranges of s

Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

Scientific Data - InsectGUILD: feeding guilds of lepidopteran and hymenopteran larvae consuming Northern Hemisphere woody plants

The Importance of the Regional Species Pool The regional species pool—the set of species capable of entering a local community—is a foundational concept for understanding ecological processes that o.....

The extent to which the sequence and timing of important events on Earth have influenced biological evolution through geological time is a matter of o…

In a new study published in Science we analyze our current level of knowledge about Antarctic biodiversity, characterizing both advances in research and the gaps that still exist, thereby identifying ...

Abstract. I examine the spatial processes that shape species formation in adaptive radiation, and patterns that emerge from the different processes. I firs

Despite the increasingly available phylogenetic hypotheses for multiple taxonomic groups, most of them do not include all species. In phylogenetic ecology, there is still a strong demand to have phyl...