R. Maestri

From Fossils to Living Canids: Two Contrasting Perspectives on Biogeographic Diversification

The paper extends a speciation model to include extinct species in Canidae phylogeny, finding contrasting diversification patterns between extant and complete trees.

Recent evolutionary origin and localized diversity hotspots of mammalian coronaviruses

This study investigates the evolutionary origin and diversification of mammalian coronaviruses, finding recent origination in bats and localized diversity hotspots in East Asia and Europe.

There and Back to the Present: An Evolutionary Tale on Biological Diversity

The paper introduces an individual-based simulation with ABC to study niche evolution and dispersal limitation in Phyllostomidae bats, showing their impact on biodiversity distribution.

The effect of climate change on the distribution of Canidae

This study models the current and future distributions of Canidae species under climate change scenarios and assesses their potential for evolutionary rescue.

Competition and environmental gradients structure assemblages of Canidae across the planet

This study examines how environmental factors and competition shape the phylogenetic structure of Canidae across different regions, finding that habitat filtering is a dominant force.

Explosive diversification following continental colonizations by canids

The paper investigates whether colonization of new continents by canids led to explosive radiations, finding that crossing the Bering Strait and Isthmus of Panama around 11 million years ago triggered rapid speciation.

Evoregions: Mapping Shifts in Phylogenetic Turnover Across Biogeographic Regions

This paper introduces evoregions, a framework to identify biogeographic regions important for evolutionary diversification by using phylogenetic turnover instead of species distribution.