Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occ...
Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, fr...
Model selection is a topic of special relevance in molecular phylogenetics that affects many, if not all, stages of phylogenetic inference. Here we discuss some fundamental conc...
Probabilistic tests of topology offer a powerful means of evaluating competing phylogenetic hypotheses. The performance of the nonparametric Shimodaira-Hasegawa (SH) test, the p...
In their Review “Environmental change and Antarctic seabird populations,” (Special Issue on Polar Science, 30 Aug., p. [1510][1]), J. P. Croxall et al. describe paradoxes, many ...