Biological diversification generates patterns of genetic diversity, be it driven by neutral biogeographic (variance and dispersal) or populational (demographic fluctuation) or even adaptive processes mediated by natural ...

There are some extremely biodiverse regions in South America such as the Andes, the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest. The historical processes that originated and maintain such diversity are still not fully understood. Our ...

Sexual size dimorphism is widely studied in mammals. Its magnitude and direction present large variation among species, since there are different selective forces acting on each sex. Besides, how altitude and other climatic ...

Macroecology focuses on the relationship between organisms and their environments in broad spatial and temporal scales. One of its approaches is the analysis of geographical patterns in the morphological traits. Several ...