Evolutionary Macroecology and the Geographical Patterns of Neotropical Diversification

摘要: Over the last decades, geographical distribution of species, as well its associated patterns have been at core macroecology research program. Gradients in geographic range size and shape, overlap (species richness), reveal broad-scale that may help to infer underlying ecological processes, mainly related climatic environmental variation. However, it is clear now evolutionary processes are least equally important, demanding inclusion an dimension better understand such patterns. In this review, we discuss recent macroecological approaches study scale, exemplify some these with data from a model group Neotropical birds, Furnariides.