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Contemporary Biogeography

6/12/2020

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Richard Stevens, Marcelo M. Weber, and Fabricio Villalobos

Focus on Neotropical bats, especially Phyllostomidae, has provided many rich insights into contemporary biogeography of the Earth’s biota, in particular from perspectives of describing patterns and searching for mechanisms underlying broadscale gradients of biodiversity. Here we review this large body of research. We begin by reviewing more classical approaches to describe and explain secondary gradients of diversity related to area, latitude, and elevation but also review more contemporary analyses involving primary gradients related to climate and history. Indeed, phyllostomid bats exhibit arguably some of the strongest biodiversity gradients in the world. Moreover, gradients of phyllostomid diversity reflect responses to a complex tapestry of climatic conditions such as precipitation, temperature and their seasonality combined with historical drivers of diversification such as spatially variable speciation rates and tropical niche conservatism. We end by making explicit some of the methodological challenges that limit our understanding of phyllostomid biodiversity gradients as well as highlight some of the more exciting novel approaches that promise much in terms of improving our understanding of the vast complexity of biodiversity gradients of Phyllostomidae as well as the mechanistic basis to these patterns.
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    Adaptation
    Adaptive Radiation
    Aerodynamics
    Agribusiness
    Andes
    Animalivorous
    Basal Metabolic Rate
    Bat Conservation
    Bat Ecology
    Bat Pollination
    Behavioral Ecology
    Biodiversity
    BioGeoBEARS
    Biogeography
    Biological Diversity
    Biomechanics
    Body Size
    Brain Evolution
    Brazil
    Canines
    Cave Protection
    Chiropterophily
    Classification
    Climatic Changes
    Coevolution
    Community Ecology
    Community Structure
    Conservation
    Continuous Character Optimization
    Cooperation
    Desmodus
    Diaemus
    Diet
    Dietary Shifts
    Dietary Specialization
    Diet Selection
    Digestive Physiology
    Diphylla
    Dispersal
    Diversification
    Diversity Gradients
    Drift
    Echolocation
    Ecological Networks
    Ecological Niche Modeling
    Ecological Theory Of Adaptive Radiation
    Education
    Elastin
    Emerging Diseases
    Emerging Threats
    Evolutionary Mechanisms
    Excretory Physiology
    Extrinsic Threats
    Female Choice
    Flight
    Foraging Ecology
    Foraging Strategy
    Forest Loss
    Fossils
    Frugivory
    Generalist
    Geological Changes
    Gleaning Insectivory
    Gondwana
    Great American Interchange
    Habitat Loss
    Interaction Networks
    Intestinal Enzymes
    Kidney Structure
    Life History Theory
    Lonchorhina
    Longevity
    Male Competition
    Metabolic Physiology
    Micronycterinae
    Monestrus
    Morphology
    Movement Ecology
    Musculoskeletal
    Nectarivory
    Neotropics
    Network Science
    Neuroanatomy
    New World
    Noctilionoidea
    Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Models
    Oxidative Metabolism
    Past Character Displacement
    Phyletic Trends
    Phyllostomidae
    Phyllostominae
    Phylogenetic Constraints
    Phylogeny
    Polyestrus
    Predator
    Roost Disturbance
    Roosting Behavior
    Roosts
    Sanguinivory
    Sensory
    Sensory Systems
    Sexual Selection
    Size At Birth
    Skin
    Specialization
    Speciation
    Species Description
    Species Interactions
    Sperm Competition
    Taxonomic Discovery
    Trophic Level
    Wing Morphology
    Wings

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