Journal of Biogeography

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Biogeography is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Late Cenozoic evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient86
Apomixis goes a long way: Genetic evidence of persistence and long‐distance seed dispersal in an ancient landscape78
Population genetic structure of a broadcast‐spawning coral across a tropical–temperate transition zone reveals regional differentiation and high‐latitude reef isolation59
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Host phylogeny and elevation predict infection by avian haemosporidians in a diverse New Guinean bird community47
Risk of plant invasions and management planning in the Tibetan Plateau, China42
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Mangrove distribution and diversity during three Cenozoic thermal maxima in the Northern Hemisphere (pollen records from the Arctic–North Atlantic–Mediterranean regions)38
Sunda–Sahul floristic exchange and pathways into the Southwest Pacific: New insights from wet tropical forest trees37
Alfred R. Wallace's enduring influence on biogeographical studies of theIndo‐Australianarchipelago36
Strong links between plant traits and microbial activities but different abiotic drivers in mountain grasslands29
The nitrogen‐fixing potential of plant communities depends on climate and land management28
Population divergence associated with spatial asynchrony in precipitation in Neotropical frogs27
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Journal of Biogeography Innovation Awards, 202322
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Inverse responses of species richness and niche specialization to human development22
Pseudocongruent phylogeography reflects unique responses to environmental perturbations in a biodiversity hotspot22
Drivers of contemporary lacustrine fish species richness in the glacial Lake Agassiz basin22
High phytoplankton diversity in eutrophic states impedes lake recovery22
A global assessment of the ‘island rule’ in bats based on functionally distinct measures of body size21
Temperature and Moisture Interact to Shape Body Size of Appalachian Salamanders Across Elevation21
Lizard richness in mainland China is more strongly correlated with energy and climatic stability than with diversification rates21
Environmental effects, gene flow and genetic drift: Unequal influences on genetic structure across landscapes20
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High connectivity within restricted distribution range in Pocillopora corals20
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Habitat suitability and centrality—not peripherality—predict demographic performance in a Neotropical lizard19
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Population genetics under the Massenerhebung effect: The influence of topography on the demography of Acer morrisonense18
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Can’t see the wood for the trees? Canopy physiognomy influences the distribution of peninsular Indian flying lizards18
Accounting for inter‐annual variability alters long‐term estimates of climate suitability18
Source pool diversity and proximity shape the compositional uniqueness of insular mammal assemblages worldwide18
Regional and local environment drive biogeographic patterns in intertidal microorganisms18
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Using crowdsourced photographic records to explore geographical variation in colour polymorphism17
Spatio‐temporal evolution of the catuaba clade in the Neotropics: Morphological shifts correlate with habitat transitions17
The role of dispersal limitation in the forest biome shifts of Europe in the last 18,000 years17
Zooplankton body size is filtered by a thermo‐oxygenic niche at the regional scale17
Functional connectivity in sympatric spiny rats reflects different dimensions of Amazonian forest‐association17
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The relationships of plant species occupancy to niches and traits vary with spatial scale17
Larger distribution ranges of seagrasses towards the equator17
Imprints of historical and ecological factors in the phylogenetic structure of Australian Meliphagides assemblages17
Genomic differentiation with gene flow in a widespread Amazonian floodplain‐specialist bird species17
Around the world in 10 million years: Rapid dispersal of a kleptoparasitoid spider wasp (Pompilidae: Ceropales)17
Species evenness‐area relationships in fragmented landscapes16
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Neotropical niche evolution of Otoba trees in the context of global biogeography of the nutmeg family16
The oceanographic isolation of the Ogasawara Islands and genetic divergence in a reef‐building coral16
Global biogeography of ant social parasites: Exploring patterns and mechanisms of an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient16
Historical biogeography of New World passalid beetles (Coleoptera, Passalidae) reveals Mesoamerican tropical forests as a centre of origin and taxonomic diversification16
A new method to explicitly estimate the shift of optimum along gradients in multispecies studies16
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Iberian hares with anciently introgressed mitochondrial DNA express a marginal environmental niche16
Drivers of Interspecific Spatial Segregation in Two Closely‐Related Seabird Species at a Pan‐Atlantic Scale15
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Expansion processes of two emblematic Luehdorfia butterflies across the Japanese archipelago15
Island biogeography of mixed‐species bird flocks: A gregarious nuclear species influences island area effects14
Out of the tropics: Macroevolutionary size trends in an old insect order are shaped by temperature and predators14
A joint distribution framework to improve presence‐only species distribution models by exploiting opportunistic surveys14
Biogeography of orchids and their pollination syndromes in small Mediterranean islands14
Ice age land bridges to continental islands: Repeated migration of the forest‐dwelling sable in northeastern Asia14
For neither heat nor water conservation: Body size variation in Atlantic Forest frogs does not follow a general mechanism14
Dispersal sweepstakes: Biotic interchange propelled air‐breathing fishes across the globe14
Should we be concerned about incomplete taxon sampling when assessing the evolutionary history of regional biotas?14
Shifts to open access with high article processing charges hinder research equity and careers14
Elevational range sizes of woody plants increase with climate variability in the Tropical Andes14
A phylogenetically controlled test does not support the prediction of lower putative anti‐herbivore leaf traits for insular woody species14
Island volcanism predicts pheomelanin‐based plumage colouration in a cosmopolitan raptor14
Uncovering the cause of breakup between species' range limits and niche limits under climate warming14
Spatial variation in bioclimatic relationships for a snow‐adapted species along a discontinuous southern range boundary14
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Reshaping biogeography: Perspectives on the past, present and future14
Coordination of bark and wood traits underlies forest‐to‐savanna evolutionary transitions13
Data‐driven bioregionalization: A seascape‐scale study of macrobenthic communities in the Eurasian Arctic13
Do aposematic species have larger range sizes? A case study with neotropical poison frogs13
Reflections of Grinnellian and Eltonian niches on the distribution of phyllostomid bats in the Atlantic Forest13
Influence of elevation on bioregionalisation: A case study of the Sino‐Himalayan flora13
Stronger negative species interactions in the tropics supported by a global analysis of nest predation in songbirds13
Southern hemisphere tectonics in the Cenozoic shaped the pantropical distribution of parrots and passerines13
Recruitment, mortality and growth in semi‐arid conifer‐eucalypt forest: Small trees insure against fire and drought13
Adapting to extremes: Reconstructing evolution in response to changing climate over time and space in the diverse Australian plant genus Acacia13
Why studying the response of trait coordination to insularity matters?13
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Tree functional traits across Caribbean island dry forests are remarkably similar13
Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro‐ and microeukaryotic communities13
Spruce budworm bacterial communities vary among sites and host tree species in a boreal landscape13
Changes in the foliar fungal community between oak leaf flushes along a latitudinal gradient in Europe13
Has long‐distance flight ability been maintained by pigeons in highly insular habitats?13
Species–area relationship and small‐island effect of vascular plant diversity in a young volcanic archipelago13
Near‐shore island lizard fauna shaped by a combination of human‐mediated and natural dispersal12
Biogeography of root‐associated fungi in foundation grasses of North American plains12
A Revision to the Distribution of Plumage Polymorphism in the Red‐Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)12
How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out‐of‐Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews12
Soil chemical variables improve models of understorey plant species distributions12
Linking landscape and genetic variation in the heterogeneous Yungas Andean forest' hotspot: a multi taxa approach12
Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades12
The contemporary distribution of grasses in Australia: A process of immigration, dispersal and shifting dominance12
A passage through India: The biotic ferry model supports the build‐up of Indo‐Australian biodiversity of an ancient soil arthropod clade12
The paradox of island evolution12
Origin and diversification of flax and their relationship with heterostyly across the range12
Avoiding impacts of phylogenetic tip‐state‐errors on dispersal and extirpation rates in alpine plant biogeography12
Global patterns and drivers of beta diversity facets of reef fish faunas12
Herodotools: An R package to integrate macroevolution, biogeography and community ecology12
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Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land‐bridge connections12
Vertical stratification of ant assemblages varies along a latitudinal gradient in Brazilian savanna12
A Multi‐Modelling Approach for Informing the Conservation of a Cold‐Adapted Terrestrial Amphibian in the Face of Climate Change11
Physiological thermal niches, elevational ranges and thermal stress in dendrobatid frogs: An integrated approach11
Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges11
Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in the grasslands of Junín‐Peru11
Past and future climate effects on population structure and diversity of North Pacific surfgrasses11
Around the World in 26 Million Years: Diversification and Biogeography of Pantropical Grass‐Yellow Eurema Butterflies (Pieridae: Coliadinae)11
Persistence Over Millennia Through Extreme Clonal Longevity: Phylogenomic Insight Into History of One of the World's Rarest Plant Species11
Ophiuroidea Gray, 1840 potential species richness across the eastern Pacific: An approach using species distribution modelling11
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Large contribution of woody plant expansion to recent vegetative greening of the Northern Great Plains11
Vacant niches help predict invasion risk by birds10
Landscape Effects on Local Species Richness of Woody Specialists in Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest of Taiwan10
Predicted Pleistocene–Holocene range and connectivity declines of the vulnerable fishing cat and insights for current conservation10
The tangled biogeographic history of tarantulas: An African centre of origin rules out the centrifugal model of speciation10
Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates10
Plant dispersal characteristics shape the relationship of diversity with area and isolation10
Climate‐Driven Vegetation Characteristics Shape Phytophagous and Carnivorous Insect Diversity in South African Savannahs10
The diversity of mycorrhiza‐associated fungi and trees shapes subtropical mountain forest ecosystem functioning10
Quantifying patch size distributions of forest disturbances in protected areas across the European Alps10
The origin and spread of the southern black ant, a widely distributed leaf‐cutting ant10
Diversity, divergence and density: How habitat and hybrid zone dynamics maintain a genomic cline in an intertidal barnacle10
Rampant Dispersal Without Gene‐Flow: Reproductively and Geographically Isolated Lineages of the Supertramp Lizard Lamprolepis smaragdina Permeate the Lesser Sunda Archipelago10
Effects of input data sources on species distribution model predictions across species with different distributional ranges10
Why did the Hornbill not cross the river? Upland habitats rather than a physical barrier limit the distribution of the Brown Hornbill10
Body size and the urban heat island effect modulate the temperature–size relationship in ground beetles10
Spatial phylogenetics10
A range‐wide postglacial history of Swiss stone pine based on molecular markers and palaeoecological evidence9
The evolution of latitudinal ranges in reef‐associated fishes: Heritability, limits and inverse Rapoport's rule9
Disentangling the effects of environmental and geographic distances on lizard assemblages in Amazonian forests9
Geographic Variation in Acoustic Signals in Wildlife: A Systematic Review9
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Women in biogeography9
Individual‐level biotic interactions and species distribution models9
Rear‐edge daylily populations show legacies of habitat fragmentation due to the Holocene climate warming9
Reconstructing mechanisms of extinctions to guide mammal conservation biogeography9
Niche position accounts for the positive occupancy–abundance relationship of lake fishes9
From southern Africa and beyond: Historical biogeography of a monocotyledonous bulbous geophyte9
Systematic and highly resolved modelling of biodiversity in inherently rare groundwater amphipods9
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Uncertainties in Modelling Hawaii's Future Precipitation and What It Means for Endangered Forest Birds: A Review9
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Evidence for niche conservatism in alpine beetles under a climate‐driven species pump model9
Global patterns of the species richness and distribution of eriophyoid mites: a response to Li et al. 20239
Madagascar's grassy biomes are ancient and there is much to learn about their ecology and evolution9
Interplay of diet and sympatry in the morphological evolution of noctilionoid bats9
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Three‐Dimensional Morphometrics Reveal Patterns of Unionid Shell Variation Along River Gradients9
Revealing genetic patterns across ecoregions in the northeastern Pacific of California and Baja California9
Water and energy availability mediate biodiversity patterns along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes8
Climate shapes community flowering periods across biomes8
Vegetation change on Mt. Teide, the Atlantic's highest volcano, inferred by incorporating the data underlying Humboldt'sTableau Physique des Iles Canaries8
Connecting Amazonian historical biogeography and local assemblages of understorey birds: Recurrent guild proportionality within areas of endemism8
Systematic headwater sampling of white‐spotted charr reveals stream capture events across dynamic topography8
Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success8
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Limited dispersal and in situ diversification drive the evolutionary history of Rasborinae fishes in Sundaland8
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How tectonic, volcanic and climatic processes in Andean ‘sky islands’ shaped the diversification of endemic ground beetles8
Abundance patterns of mammals across Russia explained by remotely sensed vegetation productivity and snow indices8
Widespread misperception about a major East Asian biogeographic boundary exposed through bibliographic survey and biogeographic meta‐analysis8
Temperature dissimilarity drives flower–visitor interaction turnover across elevation in the Mexican Transition Zone8
Central European forest–steppe: An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances8
Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna8
Sea dispersal potential and colonization of the Galápagos littoral flora8
Seasonal variation in patterns of anuran diversity along a subtropical elevational gradient8
Shared patterns of spatial accumulation of lineages across terrestrial vertebrates8
Pantropical diversification of padauk trees and relatives was influenced by biome‐switching and long‐distance dispersal8
Unlocking the history of a trans‐Atlantic invader: Did the human slave trade impact Brown mussel dispersal?8
Trait filtering in island floras: A conceptual framework8
Differential speciation rates, colonization time and niche conservatism affect community assembly across adjacent biogeographical regions8
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Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants8
Why have Madagascar's mammals, despite being closely‐related to African open‐habitat specialists, failed to radiate into open grasslands?8
Abiotic stress and biotic factors mediate range dynamics on opposing edges8
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The Composition and Diversity of Soil Microbial Communities Associated With the Invasive Plant Solidago canadensis Vary Across Locations and Time Since Invasion7
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Towards causal relationships for modelling species distribution7
Evidence that species richness begets species richness7
The origins of marine fishes endemic to subtropical islands of the Southwest Pacific7
An Updated Environmental Resistance Model for Predicting the Spread of Invasive Species7
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Paleoenvironmental models for Australia and the impact of aridification on blindsnake diversification7
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Environmental change during the last glacial on an ancient land bridge of southeast Australia7
Fire–climate–human dynamics over the last 1800 years in the mesic Araucaria‐Nothofagus forests7
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Zoogeographical regions in the Atlantic Forest: patterns and potential drivers7
Species richness responds to buffer effectiveness and competitive priorities in simulations of alpine microrefugia7
Arthropod diversity in constructed wetlands is affected strongly by shoreline properties but only weakly by grazing7
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Dispersal syndromes are poorly associated with climatic niche differences in the Azorean seed plants7
Null model analyses are not adequate to summarize strong associations: Rebuttal to Ulrich et al. (2022)7
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An Ecoinformatic Model Using Rényi's Entropy Predicts Soil Chemistry Effect on Tree Species Abundance Distributions7
Journal of biogeography innovation awards7
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A new method based on surface‐sample pollen data for reconstructing palaeovegetation patterns7
Overlooked species diversity in the hyper‐arid Sahara Desert unveiled by dryland‐adapted lizards7
Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Beta Diversity of Upland Forest Birds in the Amazon: The Relative Importance of Biogeographic Regions, Climate and Geographic Distance7
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Holocene Climate Change Promoted Allopatric Divergence and Disjunct Geographic Distribution in a Bee Orchid Species7
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Ecological and Evolutionary Factors Contribute to the Uneven Diversification of Firs in the Northern Hemisphere7
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Soil toxicity and species dominance rather than nutrient availability drive plant species richness in swamp forests of Central Europe7
Circular genetic structure of the Abies nephrolepis species complex shaped by the circular landform of Northeast Asia7
Simple null model analysis subsumes a new species co‐occurrence index: A comment on Mainali et al. (2022)7
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Phylogeography and population genetics reveal ring species patterns in a highly polymorphic California lily7
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Geogenomics: Toward synthesis7
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Ecological marginality and recruitment loss in the globally endangered freshwater pearl mussel7
Corrigendum for ‘Biogeographic drivers of community assembly on oceanic islands: The importance of archipelago structure and history’7
Gulls contribute to olive seed dispersal within and among islands in a Mediterranean coastal area7
Concordance and drivers of marine spatial structure determined using genogeographic clustering7
Using a Nested Sampling Design Across Spatial Scales to Gain Insights Into Distribution Patterns of Fishes, Mussels and Macroinvertebrates in a Riverine System7
Incorporating Climatic Extremes Using the GEV Distribution Improves SDM Range Edge Performance6
Metabarcoding reveals high‐resolution biogeographical and metaphylogeographical patterns through marine barriers6
Let it snow? Spring snowpack and microsite characterize the regeneration niche of high‐elevation pines6
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Climate Change Effects on the Only Western Palearctic Plethodontids: Range Changes and Possible Depletion of Intraspecific Genetic Diversity6
Biogeographical Origins of Caatinga Squamata Fauna6
Not every high‐latitude or high‐elevation forest edge is a treeline6
The ‘island syndrome’ is an alternative state6
Habitat Suitability of the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) at Its Distribution Limit—An Analysis Based on Citizen Science Data and Machine Learning6
Similar, but Not the Same: Time and Mode of Climatic Niche Evolution in a Highly Endemic Lineage6
Amazonian pollen assemblages reflect biogeographic gradients and forest cover6
Spatial phylogenomics of acrobat ants in Madagascar—Mountains function as cradles for recent diversity and endemism6
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