Journal of Biogeography

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Biogeography is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Large‐scale DNA‐based survey of frogs in Amazonia suggests a vast underestimation of species richness and endemism57
Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity51
Statistical comparison of DEC and DEC+J is identical to comparison of two ClaSSE submodels, and is therefore valid48
Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years46
As time goes by: 20 years of changes in the aquatic macroinvertebrate metacommunity of Mediterranean river networks44
Intraspecific differentiation: Implications for niche and distribution modelling43
Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities41
The Habitat Amount Hypothesis implies negative effects of habitat fragmentation on species richness38
Lowest drought sensitivity and decreasing growth synchrony towards the dry distribution margin of European beech38
Climatic refugia boosted allopatric diversification in Western Mediterranean vipers36
Global knowledge gaps in species interaction networks data36
Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants35
Generalist plants are more competitive and more functionally similar to each other than specialist plants: insights from network analyses34
Tree‐to‐tree interactions slow down Himalayan treeline shifts as inferred from tree spatial patterns34
Scale‐dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems32
Life in the “dead heart” of Australia: The geohistory of the Australian deserts and its impact on genetic diversity of arid zone lizards32
Unravelling potential northward migration pathways for tree species under climate change32
Biogeographic mechanisms involved in the colonization of Madagascar by African vertebrates: Rifting, rafting and runways31
Scale dependency of joint species distribution models challenges interpretation of biotic interactions31
Biogeography of the neotropical freshwater stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygoninae) reveals effects of continent‐scale paleogeographic change and drainage evolution30
Widespread underfilling of the potential ranges of North American trees29
Climate controls plant life‐form patterns on a high‐elevation oceanic island29
Unravelling the evolution of Africa’s drainage basins through a widespread freshwater fish, the African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus29
Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae: Allobates)29
Spatial and local environmental factors outweigh geo‐climatic gradients in structuring taxonomically and trait‐based β‐diversity of benthic algae28
Latitudinal patterns of alien plant invasions28
Land use and local environment affect macroinvertebrate metacommunity organization in Neotropical stream networks28
The role of evolutionary time, diversification rates and dispersal in determining the global diversity of a large radiation of passerine birds27
Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities27
Partitioning multiple facets of beta diversity in a tropical stream macroalgal metacommunity26
Latitudinal patterns of species diversity on South American rocky shores: Local processes lead to contrasting trends in regional and local species diversity25
The biogeography of ecoregions: Descriptive power across regions and taxa25
Winter temperature and forest cover have shaped red deer distribution in Europe and the Ural Mountains since the Late Pleistocene25
The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide25
Using ecological networks to answer questions in global biogeography and ecology24
Island area, not isolation, drives taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of ants on land‐bridge islands24
Diversity patterns and evolutionary history of Arabian squamates23
Colonizing the Caribbean: New geological data and an updated land‐vertebrate colonization record challenge the GAARlandia land‐bridge hypothesis23
Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands23
Environmental heterogeneity dynamics drive plant diversity on oceanic islands23
Beta diversity patterns of bats in the Atlantic Forest: How does the scale of analysis affect the importance of spatial and environmental factors?23
Global mycorrhizal fungal range sizes vary within and among mycorrhizal guilds but are not correlated with dispersal traits23
Weak phylogenetic and climatic signals in plant heat tolerance22
Variability in the fundamental versus realized niches of North American mangroves22
Niche‐based processes explaining the distributions of closely related subterranean spiders21
Effects of a major Amazonian river confluence on the distribution of floodplain forest avifauna21
One of the least disturbed marine coastal ecosystems on Earth: Spatial and temporal persistence of Darwin’s sub‐Antarctic giant kelp forests21
Multiple late‐Pleistocene colonisation events of the Antarctic pearlwortColobanthus quitensis(Caryophyllaceae) reveal the recent arrival of native Antarctic vascular flora21
Unravelling the small‐island effect through phylogenetic community ecology20
Big, flightless, insular and dead: Characterising the extinct birds of the Quaternary19
Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants19
Global biogeography and diversification of a group of brown seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) driven by clade‐specific evolutionary processes19
Latitudinal patterns of species richness and range size of ferns along elevational gradients at the transition from tropics to subtropics19
A new system to classify global climate zones based on plant physiology and using high temporal resolution climate data19
Patterns of phylogenetic beta diversity measured at deep evolutionary histories across geographical and ecological spaces for angiosperms in China19
Influence of elevation on the species–area relationship19
Macro‐scale variation and environmental predictors of flowering and fruiting phenology in the Chinese angiosperm flora19
Biogeographical divides delineated by the three‐step landforms of China and the East China Sea: Insights from the phylogeography of Kerria japonica18
Biogeographical history of golden orbweavers: Chronology of a global conquest18
Environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest18
Isolation by environment and recurrent gene flow shaped the evolutionary history of a continentally distributed Neotropical treefrog18
How did subterranean amphipods cross the Adriatic Sea? Phylogenetic evidence for dispersal–vicariance interplay mediated by marine regression–transgression cycles18
Scale(s) matter: Deconstructing an area of endemism for Middle American freshwater fishes18
Linking mode of seed dispersal and climatic niche evolution in flowering plants17
Abiotic stress and biotic factors mediate range dynamics on opposing edges17
Farmland bird assemblages exhibit higher functional and phylogenetic diversity than forest assemblages in France17
Population dynamics and range shifts of moose (Alces alces) during the Late Quaternary17
The unlikely ‘antiquity of Madagascar's grasslands’: Disproportionately forest‐limited endemic fauna support anthropogenic transformation from woodland17
A meta‐analysis of insularity effects on herbivory and plant defences16
Central European forest–steppe: An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances16
Accounting for inter‐annual variability alters long‐term estimates of climate suitability16
Going against the flow: Barriers to gene flow impact patterns of connectivity in cryptic coral reef gobies throughout the western Atlantic16
Geographical variation in ant foraging activity and resource use is driven by climate and net primary productivity16
Species distribution modelling supports the study of past, present and future biogeographies16
Community phylogeographic patterns reveal how a barrier filters and structures taxa in North American warm deserts16
The geography of speciation in dasyurid marsupials16
Traits mediate niches and co‐occurrences of forest beetles in ways that differ among bioclimatic regions16
Revisiting a speciation classic: Comparative analyses support sharp but leaky transitions between Bombina toads16
Differential speciation rates, colonization time and niche conservatism affect community assembly across adjacent biogeographical regions16
Biogeography of root‐associated fungi in foundation grasses of North American plains16
Origin and diversification of flax and their relationship with heterostyly across the range16
Comparative phylogeography reveals consistently shallow genetic diversity in a mitochondrial marker in Antarctic bdelloid rotifers16
Great journey of Great Tits (Parus major group): Origin, diversification and historical demographics of a broadly distributed bird lineage15
Bio‐Dem, a tool to explore the relationship between biodiversity data availability and socio‐political conditions in time and space15
The Indo‐European flyway: Opportunities and constraints reflected by Common Rosefinches breeding across Europe15
Understanding parapatry: How do environment and competitive interactions shape Iberian vipers’ distributions?15
A closer examination of the ‘abundant centre’ hypothesis for reef fishes15
Complex patterns of Gondwanan biogeography revealed in a dispersal‐limited arachnid15
On the relationship between species diversity and range size15
East Asian origin of the widespread alpine snow‐bed herb, Primula cuneifolia (Primulaceae), in the northern Pacific region15
Generalized evidence for Bergmann’s rule: body size variation in a cosmopolitan owl genus15
The structure of plant–herbivore interaction networks varies along elevational gradients in the European Alps15
The evolutionary history of sedges (Cyperaceae) in Madagascar15
Widespread misperception about a major East Asian biogeographic boundary exposed through bibliographic survey and biogeographic meta‐analysis14
Contrasting response of native and non‐native plants to disturbance and herbivory in mountain environments14
Joint effects of environmental filtering and dispersal limitation on the species assemblage of the Tibetan Plateau14
Niche divergence among closely related taxa provides insight on evolutionary patterns of ticks14
Plio‐Pleistocene sea‐level changes drive speciation of freshwater fishes in north‐western Australia14
High thematic resolution land use change models refine biodiversity scenarios: A case study with Belgian bumblebees14
What drives diversification? Range expansion tops climate, life history, habitat and size in lizards and snakes14
Rio de Janeiro and other palaeodrainages evidenced by the genetic structure of an Atlantic Forest catfish14
Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity14
Mechanisms underlying altitudinal and horizontal range contraction: The western black crested gibbon14
Did long‐term fire control the coniferous boreal forest composition of the northern Ural region (Komi Republic, Russia)?14
The biogeography of diet diversity of barn owls on Mediterranean islands14
Urban tolerance of birds changes throughout the full annual cycle13
Habitat suitability modelling to predict the spatial distribution of cold‐water coral communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill13
Taxonomic uncertainty and the challenge of estimating global species richness13
What the habitat amount hypothesis does and does not predict: A reply to Saura13
Species–area relationship and small‐island effect of vascular plant diversity in a young volcanic archipelago13
Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro‐ and microeukaryotic communities13
Recent divergence and lack of shared phylogeographic history characterize the diversification of neotropical savanna birds13
Effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on genetic diversity and population structure of Antarctic lichens13
Multi‐scale biodiversity analyses identify the importance of continental watersheds in shaping lake zooplankton biogeography13
Latitudinal decline in stand biomass and productivity at the elevational treeline in the Ural mountains despite a common thermal growth limit13
Stronger negative species interactions in the tropics supported by a global analysis of nest predation in songbirds13
Spatial phylogenetics13
Phylogeographic history of Japanese macaques13
Climate and geological change as drivers of Mauritiinae palm biogeography13
Dimensions of amphibian alpha diversity in the New World13
Leaf functional traits and insular colonization: Subtropical islands as a melting pot of trait diversity in a widespread plant lineage13
Vertical stratification collapses under seasonal shifts in climate13
An interpolated biogeographical framework for tropical Africa using plant species distributions and the physical environment13
Genomic differentiation with gene flow in a widespread Amazonian floodplain‐specialist bird species13
Using different body size measures can lead to different conclusions about the effects of climate change12
Madagascar's grassy biomes are ancient and there is much to learn about their ecology and evolution12
Phylogenomics resolves the invasion history of Acacia auriculiformis in Florida12
Arctic chironomids of the northwest North Atlantic reflect environmental and biogeographic gradients12
Water and energy availability mediate biodiversity patterns along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes12
Historical biogeography shapes functional ecology: Inter‐continental contrasts in responses of savanna ant communities to stress and disturbance12
Global patterns and drivers of beta diversity facets of reef fish faunas12
High connectivity within restricted distribution range in Pocillopora corals12
Ecophysiology of a small ectotherm tracks environmental variation along an elevational cline12
Climate‐related geographical variation in performance traits across the invasion front of a widespread non‐native insect12
Phylogenetic regionalization of tree assemblages reveals novel patterns of evolutionary affinities in the Atlantic Forest12
Genomic data from the Brazilian sibilator frog reveal contrasting pleistocene dynamics and regionalism in two South American dry biomes12
Spatial variation in bioclimatic relationships for a snow‐adapted species along a discontinuous southern range boundary12
Taxon pulse dynamics, episodic dispersal and host colonization across Beringia drive diversification of a Holarctic tapeworm assemblage12
A hairy situation: Plant species in warm, sunny places are more likely to have pubescent leaves12
Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna12
Insights into the aridification history of Central Asian Mountains and international conservation strategy from the endangered wild apple tree11
The challenges and potential of geogenomics for biogeography and conservation in Amazonia11
Reconstructing historical shifts in suitable habitat of Sceloporus lineages using phylogenetic niche modelling11
Life‐form diversity across temperate deciduous forests of Western Eurasia: A different story in the understory11
Disentangling the effects of latitudinal and elevational gradients on bee, wasp, and ant diversity in an ancient neotropical mountain range11
Big in the tropics: Ecogeographical clines in peccary size reveal the converse of Bergmann’s rule11
Species richness and patterns of overdispersion, clustering and randomness shape phylogenetic and functional diversity–area relationships in habitat islands11
A tale of two conifers: Migration across a dispersal barrier outpaced regional expansion from refugia11
Old origin for an European‐African amphitropical disjunction pattern: New insights from a case study on wingless darkling beetles11
Lake expansion elevates equilibrium diversity via increasing colonization11
Unveiling the drivers of local dung beetle species richness in the Neotropics11
Not every high‐latitude or high‐elevation forest edge is a treeline11
Mammals on mountainsides revisited: Trait‐based tests of assembly reveal the importance of abiotic filters11
Niche and neutral assembly mechanisms contribute to latitudinal diversity gradients in reef fishes11
Dietary flexibility promotes range expansion: The case of golden jackals in Eurasia11
The origin of the endemic African grasshopper family Lentulidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) and its climate‐induced diversification11
Plastid introgression and evolution of African miombo woodlands: New insights from the plastome‐based phylogeny of Brachystegia trees11
Elements of metacommunity structure of diatoms and macroinvertebrates within stream networks differing in environmental heterogeneity11
Regional drivers of diversification in the late Quaternary in a widely distributed generalist species, the common pheasant Phasianus colchicus10
What drives diversification in a pantropical plant lineage with extraordinary capacity for long‐distance dispersal and colonization?10
Mapping the distribution and extent of India's semi‐arid open natural ecosystems10
Species distribution models and a 60‐year‐old transplant experiment reveal inhibited forest plant range shifts under climate change10
Modern pollen assemblages of the Neotropics10
Moths and butterflies on alien shores: Global biogeography of non‐native Lepidoptera10
Tracking the xeric biomes of South America: The spatiotemporal diversification of Mandacaru cactus10
Montane forest expansion at high elevations drives rapid reduction in non‐forest area, despite no change in mean forest elevation10
Reduced host‐plant specialization is associated with the rapid range expansion of a Mediterranean butterfly10
Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges10
Riddle on the riffle: Miocene diversification and biogeography of endemic mountain loaches in the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot10
The Amazon‐Orinoco Barrier as a driver of reef‐fish speciation in the Western Atlantic through time10
Three dispersal routes out of Africa: A puzzling biogeographical history in freshwater planarians10
Using RADseq to understand the circum‐Antarctic distribution of a lichenized fungus, Pseudocyphellaria glabra10
Towards an understanding of future range shifts in lichens and mosses under climate change10
Montane regions shape patterns of diversification in small mammals and reptiles from Madagascar’s moist evergreen forest10
Historical legacies and contemporary processes shape beta diversity in Neotropical montane streams10
Plant height and lifespan predict range size in southern African grasses10
Plant dispersal characteristics shape the relationship of diversity with area and isolation10
Blow to the Northeast? Intraspecific differentiation of Populus davidiana suggests a north‐eastward skew of a phylogeographic break in East Asia10
Phylogenetic diversity of two geographically overlapping lichens: isolation by distance, environment, or fragmentation?10
Molecular phylogeography reveals two geographically and temporally separated floristic exchange tracks between Southeast Asia and northern Australia10
Phylogenomic dating and Bayesian biogeography illuminate an antitropical pattern for eucerine bees10
High plant species richness and stable climate lead to richer but phylogenetically and functionally clustered avifaunas10
Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles10
Impact of Quaternary climatic oscillations on phylogeographic patterns of three habitat‐segregated Cerastium taxa endemic to the Dinaric Alps10
Depth and latitudinal gradients of diversity in seamount benthic communities10
Oceanographic heterogeneity influences an ecological radiation in elasmobranchs10
Correlates of geoxyle diversity in Afrotropical grasslands10
Evidence for niche conservatism in alpine beetles under a climate‐driven species pump model9
Ocean currents shape the genetic structure of a kelp in southwestern Africa9
Speciation of a subterranean amphipod on the glacier margins in South Eastern Alps, Europe9
The influence of climate and palaeoclimate on distributions of global conifer clades depends on geographical range size9
A database of the morphology, ecology and literature of the world's limb‐reduced skinks9
Historical biogeography of New World passalid beetles (Coleoptera, Passalidae) reveals Mesoamerican tropical forests as a centre of origin and taxonomic diversification9
Linking seascape with landscape genetics: Oceanic currents favour colonization across the Galápagos Islands by a coastal plant9
Holocene plant diversity dynamics show a distinct biogeographical pattern in temperate Europe9
A treasure from the past: Former sperm whale distribution in Indonesian waters unveiled using distribution models and historical whaling data9
The importance of considering the evolutionary history of polyploids when assessing climatic niche evolution9
Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions9
Habitat heterogeneity determines species richness on small habitat islands in a fragmented landscape9
Effects of input data sources on species distribution model predictions across species with different distributional ranges9
Environment and space drive the community assembly of Atlantic European grasslands: Insights from multiple facets9
The origin of an extreme case of sister‐species sympatry in a palm‐pollinator mutualistic system9
Niche evolution and historical biogeography of lady slipper orchids in North America and Eurasia9
Habitat association constrains population history in two sympatric ovenbirds along Amazonian floodplains9
Individual migration strategy fidelity but no habitat specialization in two congeneric seabirds9
Deconstructing species richness–environment relationships in Neotropical lianas8
The North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States and Mexico8
Improving predictions of range expansion for invasive species using joint species distribution models and surrogate co‐occurring species8
The importance of seawater tolerance and native status in mediating the distribution of inland fishes8
Vicariance and regionalization patterns in snakes of the South American Atlantic Forest megadiverse hotspot8
Beyond tracking climate: Niche shifts during native range expansion and their implications for novel invasions8
Phylogeography at the crossroad: Pleistocene range expansion throughout the Mediterranean and back‐colonization from the Canary Islands in the legume Bituminaria bituminosa8
Functional connectivity in sympatric spiny rats reflects different dimensions of Amazonian forest‐association8
Long‐term monitoring in endangered woodlands shows effects of multi‐scale drivers on bird occupancy8
Holocene heathland development in temperate oceanic Southern Hemisphere: Key drivers in a global context8
Do mayflies (Ephemeroptera) support a biogeographic transition zone in South America?8
ETIB‐T: An Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography for plant traits8
Patterns of genotype variation and demographic history in Lindera glauca (Lauraceae), an apomict‐containing dioecious forest tree8
Are tree plantations promoting homogenization of mammal assemblages between regions with contrasting environments?8
Interglacials are driving speciation and intraspecific differentiation in the cold‐adapted butterfly species group Boloria pales / napaea (Nymphalidae)8
Shifting roles of the East China Sea in the phylogeography of red nanmu in East Asia8
Geographic and taxonomic biases in the vertebrate tree of life8
Urbanization buffers seasonal change in composition of bird communities: A multi‐continental meta‐analysis8
Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land‐bridge connections8
Avian developmental rates are constrained by latitude and migratoriness – A global analysis8
Genetic impacts of physical disturbance processes in coastal marine ecosystems8
Spatiotemporal modelling of abundance from multiple data sources in an integrated spatial distribution model8
Environmental heterogeneity explains contrasting plant species richness between the South African Cape and southwestern Australia8
Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation8
The role of Sahara highlands in the diversification and desert colonization of the Bosc's fringe‐toed lizard8
Whole‐genome resequencing reveals persistence of forest‐associated mammals in Late Pleistocene refugia along North America’s North Pacific Coast8
Copepod functional traits and groups show divergent biogeographies in the global ocean8
Seven snail species hidden in one: Biogeographic diversity in an apparently widespread periwinkle in the Southern Ocean8
Evolution of wing length and melanin‐based coloration in insular populations of a cosmopolitan raptor8
Limited dispersal and in situ diversification drive the evolutionary history of Rasborinae fishes in Sundaland8
Global patterns and drivers of herbivorous eriophyoid mite species diversity8
Mangrove distribution and diversity during three Cenozoic thermal maxima in the Northern Hemisphere (pollen records from the Arctic–North Atlantic–Mediterranean regions)8
Causal explanations for the evolution of ‘low gear’ locomotion in insular ruminants8
Drivers of genetic differentiation and recent evolutionary history of an Eurasian wild pea8
Hidden island endemic species and their implications for cryptic speciation within soil arthropods8
The colonization of the Puna and Atacama Biogeographic Province by sister clades of Psectrascelis (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Synchronous expansion without spatial overlap8
The interacting effect of habitat amount, habitat diversity and fragmentation on insect diversity along elevational gradients8
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