Journal of Biogeography

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Biogeography is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Statistical comparison of DEC and DEC+J is identical to comparison of two ClaSSE submodels, and is therefore valid64
Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities63
Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity58
Intraspecific differentiation: Implications for niche and distribution modelling48
Global knowledge gaps in species interaction networks data43
Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities42
Scale dependency of joint species distribution models challenges interpretation of biotic interactions38
Spatial and local environmental factors outweigh geo‐climatic gradients in structuring taxonomically and trait‐based β‐diversity of benthic algae36
Biogeographic mechanisms involved in the colonization of Madagascar by African vertebrates: Rifting, rafting and runways36
Unravelling potential northward migration pathways for tree species under climate change35
Life in the “dead heart” of Australia: The geohistory of the Australian deserts and its impact on genetic diversity of arid zone lizards34
Scale‐dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems34
Biogeography of the neotropical freshwater stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygoninae) reveals effects of continent‐scale paleogeographic change and drainage evolution33
Widespread underfilling of the potential ranges of North American trees33
Species distribution modelling supports the study of past, present and future biogeographies32
Colonizing the Caribbean: New geological data and an updated land‐vertebrate colonization record challenge the GAARlandia land‐bridge hypothesis31
Land use and local environment affect macroinvertebrate metacommunity organization in Neotropical stream networks31
Using ecological networks to answer questions in global biogeography and ecology30
The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide29
Diversity patterns and evolutionary history of Arabian squamates27
Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands27
Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants26
Patterns of phylogenetic beta diversity measured at deep evolutionary histories across geographical and ecological spaces for angiosperms in China25
Global biogeography and diversification of a group of brown seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) driven by clade‐specific evolutionary processes25
Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity24
One of the least disturbed marine coastal ecosystems on Earth: Spatial and temporal persistence of Darwin’s sub‐Antarctic giant kelp forests24
Geographical variation in ant foraging activity and resource use is driven by climate and net primary productivity23
Central European forest–steppe: An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances22
Effects of a major Amazonian river confluence on the distribution of floodplain forest avifauna22
Abiotic stress and biotic factors mediate range dynamics on opposing edges22
Isolation by environment and recurrent gene flow shaped the evolutionary history of a continentally distributed Neotropical treefrog22
Environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest21
Big, flightless, insular and dead: Characterising the extinct birds of the Quaternary21
The unlikely ‘antiquity of Madagascar's grasslands’: Disproportionately forest‐limited endemic fauna support anthropogenic transformation from woodland20
Differential speciation rates, colonization time and niche conservatism affect community assembly across adjacent biogeographical regions20
Linking mode of seed dispersal and climatic niche evolution in flowering plants20
Biogeography of root‐associated fungi in foundation grasses of North American plains19
Mapping the distribution and extent of India's semi‐arid open natural ecosystems19
Origin and diversification of flax and their relationship with heterostyly across the range19
Complex patterns of Gondwanan biogeography revealed in a dispersal‐limited arachnid19
Biogeographical divides delineated by the three‐step landforms of China and the East China Sea: Insights from the phylogeography of Kerria japonica18
Going against the flow: Barriers to gene flow impact patterns of connectivity in cryptic coral reef gobies throughout the western Atlantic18
Not every high‐latitude or high‐elevation forest edge is a treeline18
Mechanisms underlying altitudinal and horizontal range contraction: The western black crested gibbon18
Comparative phylogeography reveals consistently shallow genetic diversity in a mitochondrial marker in Antarctic bdelloid rotifers18
Dietary flexibility promotes range expansion: The case of golden jackals in Eurasia18
Widespread misperception about a major East Asian biogeographic boundary exposed through bibliographic survey and biogeographic meta‐analysis18
Recent divergence and lack of shared phylogeographic history characterize the diversification of neotropical savanna birds18
Traits mediate niches and co‐occurrences of forest beetles in ways that differ among bioclimatic regions18
A meta‐analysis of insularity effects on herbivory and plant defences18
Accounting for inter‐annual variability alters long‐term estimates of climate suitability18
Tracking the xeric biomes of South America: The spatiotemporal diversification of Mandacaru cactus17
Historical biogeography shapes functional ecology: Inter‐continental contrasts in responses of savanna ant communities to stress and disturbance17
The evolutionary history of sedges (Cyperaceae) in Madagascar17
Understanding parapatry: How do environment and competitive interactions shape Iberian vipers’ distributions?17
Revisiting a speciation classic: Comparative analyses support sharp but leaky transitions betweenBombinatoads17
The Indo‐European flyway: Opportunities and constraints reflected by Common Rosefinches breeding across Europe17
On the relationship between species diversity and range size17
Stronger negative species interactions in the tropics supported by a global analysis of nest predation in songbirds17
Climate and geological change as drivers of Mauritiinae palm biogeography17
Habitat heterogeneity determines species richness on small habitat islands in a fragmented landscape17
The structure of plant–herbivore interaction networks varies along elevational gradients in the European Alps17
Species–area relationship and small‐island effect of vascular plant diversity in a young volcanic archipelago17
What drives diversification? Range expansion tops climate, life history, habitat and size in lizards and snakes17
Joint effects of environmental filtering and dispersal limitation on the species assemblage of the Tibetan Plateau16
Bio‐Dem, a tool to explore the relationship between biodiversity data availability and socio‐political conditions in time and space16
Phylogenetic regionalization of tree assemblages reveals novel patterns of evolutionary affinities in the Atlantic Forest16
Rio de Janeiro and other palaeodrainages evidenced by the genetic structure of an Atlantic Forest catfish16
Water and energy availability mediate biodiversity patterns along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes16
Community phylogeographic patterns reveal how a barrier filters and structures taxa in North American warm deserts16
Niche divergence among closely related taxa provides insight on evolutionary patterns of ticks16
Towards an understanding of future range shifts in lichens and mosses under climate change16
High thematic resolution land use change models refine biodiversity scenarios: A case study with Belgian bumblebees16
Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro‐ and microeukaryotic communities16
Ocean currents shape the genetic structure of a kelp in southwestern Africa15
What the habitat amount hypothesis does and does not predict: A reply to Saura15
Effects of input data sources on species distribution model predictions across species with different distributional ranges15
The importance of considering the evolutionary history of polyploids when assessing climatic niche evolution15
Madagascar's grassy biomes are ancient and there is much to learn about their ecology and evolution15
Genomic data from the Brazilian sibilator frog reveal contrasting pleistocene dynamics and regionalism in two South American dry biomes15
Elevation drives taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic β‐diversity of phyllostomid bats in the Amazon biome15
Taxonomic uncertainty and the challenge of estimating global species richness15
Contrasting response of native and non‐native plants to disturbance and herbivory in mountain environments15
Niche evolution and historical biogeography of lady slipper orchids in North America and Eurasia14
Multi‐scale biodiversity analyses identify the importance of continental watersheds in shaping lake zooplankton biogeography14
Beyond tracking climate: Niche shifts during native range expansion and their implications for novel invasions14
Arctic chironomids of the northwest North Atlantic reflect environmental and biogeographic gradients14
Spatial phylogenetics14
Ecophysiology of a small ectotherm tracks environmental variation along an elevational cline14
Old origin for an European‐African amphitropical disjunction pattern: New insights from a case study on wingless darkling beetles14
Depth and latitudinal gradients of diversity in seamount benthic communities14
Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna14
Genomic differentiation with gene flow in a widespread Amazonian floodplain‐specialist bird species14
Life‐form diversity across temperate deciduous forests of Western Eurasia: A different story in the understory14
Disentangling the effects of latitudinal and elevational gradients on bee, wasp, and ant diversity in an ancient neotropical mountain range14
Climate‐related geographical variation in performance traits across the invasion front of a widespread non‐native insect14
Global patterns and drivers of beta diversity facets of reef fish faunas14
Phylogeographic history of Japanese macaques14
Urban tolerance of birds changes throughout the full annual cycle13
Mammals on mountainsides revisited: Trait‐based tests of assembly reveal the importance of abiotic filters13
Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles13
Unveiling the drivers of local dung beetle species richness in the Neotropics13
Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges13
Insights into the aridification history of Central Asian Mountains and international conservation strategy from the endangered wild apple tree13
Implications of barrier ephemerality in geogenomic research13
Niche and neutral assembly mechanisms contribute to latitudinal diversity gradients in reef fishes13
Geographic and taxonomic biases in the vertebrate tree of life13
Ecological and evolutionary processes shape below‐ground springtail communities along an elevational gradient13
High connectivity within restricted distribution range in Pocillopora corals13
The Amazon‐Orinoco Barrier as a driver of reef‐fish speciation in the Western Atlantic through time13
Effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on genetic diversity and population structure of Antarctic lichens13
Improving predictions of range expansion for invasive species using joint species distribution models and surrogate co‐occurring species13
Seven snail species hidden in one: Biogeographic diversity in an apparently widespread periwinkle in the Southern Ocean13
Plant height and lifespan predict range size in southern African grasses13
Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation12
A global analysis of mosses reveals low phylogenetic endemism and highlights the importance of long‐distance dispersal12
Reduced host‐plant specialization is associated with the rapid range expansion of a Mediterranean butterfly12
Plant dispersal characteristics shape the relationship of diversity with area and isolation12
Shifts to open access with high article processing charges hinder research equity and careers12
A landscape‐level analysis of bird taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic β‐diversity in habitat island systems12
Hidden island endemic species and their implications for cryptic speciation within soil arthropods12
Impact of Quaternary climatic oscillations on phylogeographic patterns of three habitat‐segregated Cerastium taxa endemic to the Dinaric Alps12
The North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States and Mexico12
Plastid introgression and evolution of African miombo woodlands: New insights from the plastome‐based phylogeny of Brachystegia trees12
Spatial variation in bioclimatic relationships for a snow‐adapted species along a discontinuous southern range boundary12
Molecular phylogeography reveals two geographically and temporally separated floristic exchange tracks between Southeast Asia and northern Australia12
A tale of two conifers: Migration across a dispersal barrier outpaced regional expansion from refugia12
Moths and butterflies on alien shores: Global biogeography of non‐native Lepidoptera12
Pleistocene glacial cycles as drivers of allopatric differentiation in Arctic shorebirds12
Big in the tropics: Ecogeographical clines in peccary size reveal the converse of Bergmann’s rule12
Evidence for niche conservatism in alpine beetles under a climate‐driven species pump model12
Phylogenomics resolves the invasion history of Acacia auriculiformis in Florida12
The challenges and potential of geogenomics for biogeography and conservation in Amazonia12
The origin of an extreme case of sister‐species sympatry in a palm‐pollinator mutualistic system11
Genotyping‐by‐sequencing for biogeography11
Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions11
Geographic and climatic constraints on bioregionalization of European ants11
A database of the morphology, ecology and literature of the world's limb‐reduced skinks11
Historical biogeography of New World passalid beetles (Coleoptera, Passalidae) reveals Mesoamerican tropical forests as a centre of origin and taxonomic diversification11
Urbanization buffers seasonal change in composition of bird communities: A multi‐continental meta‐analysis11
Three dispersal routes out of Africa: A puzzling biogeographical history in freshwater planarians11
Contrasting biogeographical patterns of threatened vertebrates on islands emerge from disparities between expert‐derived maps and Global Biodiversity Information Facility data11
Species distribution models and a 60‐year‐old transplant experiment reveal inhibited forest plant range shifts under climate change11
Whole‐genome resequencing reveals persistence of forest‐associated mammals in Late Pleistocene refugia along North America’s North Pacific Coast11
Unravelling the factors affecting multiple facets of macroinvertebrate beta diversity in the World's Third Pole11
Phylogenetic diversity of two geographically overlapping lichens: isolation by distance, environment, or fragmentation?11
Phylogenomic dating and Bayesian biogeography illuminate an antitropical pattern for eucerine bees11
Genetic impacts of physical disturbance processes in coastal marine ecosystems11
Out of the temperate zone: A phylogenomic test of the biogeographical conservatism hypothesis in a contrarian clade of ants11
Wildfire catalyzes upward range expansion of trembling aspen in southern Rocky Mountain beetle‐killed forests11
Projected climatic changes lead to biome changes in areas of previously constant biome11
Correlates of geoxyle diversity in Afrotropical grasslands11
The importance of seawater tolerance and native status in mediating the distribution of inland fishes10
Island plant functional syndromes and competition with invasive species10
Mangrove distribution and diversity during three Cenozoic thermal maxima in the Northern Hemisphere (pollen records from the Arctic–North Atlantic–Mediterranean regions)10
Environment and space drive the community assembly of Atlantic European grasslands: Insights from multiple facets10
Assessing the nonlinear decay of community similarity: Permutation and site‐block resampling significance tests10
Global warming leads to habitat loss and genetic erosion of alpine biodiversity10
Habitat association constrains population history in two sympatric ovenbirds along Amazonian floodplains10
Copepod functional traits and groups show divergent biogeographies in the global ocean10
Metabarcoding reveals high‐resolution biogeographical and metaphylogeographical patterns through marine barriers10
Population genomics indicates micro‐refuges and riverine barriers for a southern South American grassland nightshade10
Vicariance and regionalization patterns in snakes of the South American Atlantic Forest megadiverse hotspot10
Spatiotemporal modelling of abundance from multiple data sources in an integrated spatial distribution model10
Speciation of a subterranean amphipod on the glacier margins in South Eastern Alps, Europe10
The influence of climate and palaeoclimate on distributions of global conifer clades depends on geographical range size10
Mountains exhibit a stronger latitudinal diversity gradient than lowland regions10
Diversity, divergence and density: How habitat and hybrid zone dynamics maintain a genomic cline in an intertidal barnacle10
Phylogeography at the crossroad: Pleistocene range expansion throughout the Mediterranean and back‐colonization from the Canary Islands in the legume Bituminaria bituminosa10
Long‐term continuity of steppe grasslands in eastern Central Europe: Evidence from species distribution patterns and chloroplast haplotypes10
Long‐term monitoring in endangered woodlands shows effects of multi‐scale drivers on bird occupancy10
European bee diversity: Taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns10
Area threshold and trait–environment associations of butterfly assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China9
Limited dispersal and in situ diversification drive the evolutionary history of Rasborinae fishes in Sundaland9
Country‐level checklists and occurrences for the world's Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)9
Soil chemical variables improve models of understorey plant species distributions9
Similar yet distinct distributional patterns characterize native and exotic plant species richness across northern New Zealand islands9
Strong links between plant traits and microbial activities but different abiotic drivers in mountain grasslands9
Global patterns and drivers of herbivorous eriophyoid mite species diversity9
Niche evolution reveals disparate signatures of speciation in the ‘great speciator’ (white‐eyes, Aves: Zosterops)9
Biodiversity and elevation gradients: Insights on sampling biases across worldwide mountains9
Environmental heterogeneity explains contrasting plant species richness between the South African Cape and southwestern Australia9
Influence of past and current factors on the beta diversity of coastal lagoon fish communities in South America9
Let it snow? Spring snowpack and microsite characterize the regeneration niche of high‐elevation pines9
The diversity of mycorrhiza‐associated fungi and trees shapes subtropical mountain forest ecosystem functioning9
Fire, climate and biotic interactions shape diversity patterns along an Afrotropical elevation gradient9
Evolution of wing length and melanin‐based coloration in insular populations of a cosmopolitan raptor9
First evidence of post‐glacial contraction of Alpine endemics: Insights from Berardia subacaulis in the European Alps9
Allopatric speciation, niche conservatism and gradual phenotypic change in the evolution of European green lizards9
ETIB‐T: An Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography for plant traits9
Shifting roles of the East China Sea in the phylogeography of red nanmu in East Asia9
Spatio‐temporal variation of macroinvertebrate metacommunity organization in a monsoon‐climate region9
Functional connectivity in sympatric spiny rats reflects different dimensions of Amazonian forest‐association9
Holocene plant diversity dynamics show a distinct biogeographical pattern in temperate Europe9
The biogeography of warming tolerance in lizards9
Drivers of genetic differentiation and recent evolutionary history of an Eurasian wild pea9
The role of Sahara highlands in the diversification and desert colonization of the Bosc's fringe‐toed lizard9
Climatic adaptation explains responses to Pleistocene oscillations and diversification in European vipers8
The colonization of the Puna and Atacama Biogeographic Province by sister clades of Psectrascelis (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Synchronous expansion without spatial overlap8
Evaluating species origins within tropical sky‐islands arthropod communities8
Spatial phylogenetic patterns in the North American moss flora are shaped by history and climate8
Functional diversity and trait filtering of insectivorous bats relate to forest biogeography and fragmentation in South Africa8
Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land‐bridge connections8
Patterns and drivers of leaf‐litter ant diversity along a tropical elevational gradient in Mexico8
Holocene heathland development in temperate oceanic Southern Hemisphere: Key drivers in a global context8
The missing link in biogeographic reconstruction: Accounting for lineage extinction rewrites history8
Migratory geese allow plants to disperse to cooler latitudes across the ocean8
Forest‐permafrost feedbacks and glacial refugia help explain the unequal distribution of larch across continents8
Colonization rather than fragmentation explains the geographical distribution and diversification of treefrogs endemic to Brazilian shield sky islands8
Different dung beetle diversity patterns emerge from overlapping biotas in a large mountain range of the Mexican Transition Zone8
The influence of natural fire and cultural practices on island ecosystems: Insights from a 4,800 year record from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands8
Pleistocene climatic fluctuations promoted alternative evolutionary histories in Phytelephas aequatorialis, an endemic palm from western Ecuador8
Multiple dimensions of bird beta diversity support that mountains are higher in the tropics8
Neither historical climate nor contemporary range fully explain the extant patterns of molecular diversity in marine species8
The story of endurance: Biogeography and the evolutionary history of four Holarctic butterflies with different habitat requirements8
Are tree plantations promoting homogenization of mammal assemblages between regions with contrasting environments?8
Ancient DNA reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period8
Connecting Amazonian historical biogeography and local assemblages of understorey birds: Recurrent guild proportionality within areas of endemism8
Habitat change and its consequences on reef fish specialization in biogeographic transition zones8
Neotropical niche evolution of Otoba trees in the context of global biogeography of the nutmeg family8
Millennial land use explains modern high‐elevation vegetation in the submediterranean mountains of Southern Europe8
Influence of habitat availability and fire disturbance on a northern range boundary8
Integrating presence‐only and presence–absence data to model changes in species geographic ranges: An example in the Neotropics7
Effect of topographic complexity on species richness in the Galápagos Islands7
Biogeographic drivers of distribution and abundance in an alien ecosystem engineer: Transboundary range expansion, barriers to spread, and spatial structure7
The ‘island syndrome’ is an alternative state7
Ancestral area analyses reveal Pleistocene‐influenced evolution in a clade of coastal plain endemic plants7
The paradox of island evolution7
Southern hemisphere tectonics in the Cenozoic shaped the pantropical distribution of parrots and passerines7
A phylogenetically controlled test does not support the prediction of lower putative anti‐herbivore leaf traits for insular woody species7
A range‐wide postglacial history of Swiss stone pine based on molecular markers and palaeoecological evidence7
Riverine barrier and aridity effects on taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversities of lizard assemblages from a semi‐arid region7
Evaluating compositional changes in the avian communities of eastern North America using temperature and precipitation indices7
Factors that shape large‐scale gradients in clonality7
Slow demography and limited dispersal constrain the expansion of north‐eastern temperate forests under climate change7
Environmental change during the last glacial on an ancient land bridge of southeast Australia7
Geogenomics: Toward synthesis7
Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades7
Adapting to extremes: Reconstructing evolution in response to changing climate over time and space in the diverse Australian plant genus Acacia7
Should we be concerned about incomplete taxon sampling when assessing the evolutionary history of regional biotas?7
Choosing presence‐only species distribution models7
Regional climates shape the biogeographic history of a broadly distributed freshwater crab species complex7
Genomic footprints of Quaternary colonization and population expansion in the Patagonian‐Fuegian region rules out a separate southern refugium in Tierra del Fuego7
Spatial phylogenomics of acrobat ants in Madagascar—Mountains function as cradles for recent diversity and endemism7
Why have Madagascar's mammals, despite being closely‐related to African open‐habitat specialists, failed to radiate into open grasslands?7
Landscape genetics outperforms habitat suitability in predicting landscape resistance for congeneric cat species7
Body size and the urban heat island effect modulate the temperature–size relationship in ground beetles7
Epigean and hypogean drivers of Neotropical subterranean communities7
Can’t see the wood for the trees? Canopy physiognomy influences the distribution of peninsular Indian flying lizards7
Do host‐associated microbes show a contrarian latitudinal diversity gradient? Insights from Mytilus californianus, an intertidal foundation host7
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