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John J. Wiens
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 234
Citations - 34419
John J. Wiens is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 221 publications receiving 30372 citations. Previous affiliations of John J. Wiens include University of Texas at Austin & Naturalis.
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Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology
TL;DR: This work describes how niche conservatism in climatic tolerances may limit geographic range expansion and how this one type of niche conservatism may be important in allopatric speciation and the spread of invasive, human-introduced species.
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Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness
TL;DR: The chasm that has developed between ecology and historical biogeography is described, some of the important questions that have fallen into it and how it might be bridged, and a model that can help explain the latitudinal gradient of species richness is expanded.
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Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology.
John J. Wiens,David D. Ackerly,Andrew P. Allen,Brian L. Anacker,Lauren B. Buckley,Howard V. Cornell,Ellen I. Damschen,T. Jonathan Davies,T. Jonathan Davies,John-Arvid Grytnes,Susan Harrison,Bradford A. Hawkins,Robert D. Holt,Christy M. McCain,Patrick R. Stephens +14 more
TL;DR: The mounting evidence for the importance of niche conservatism to major topics in ecology and conservation and other areas where it may be important but has generally been overlooked is described.
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A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes
TL;DR: A new large-scale phylogeny of squamate reptiles is presented that includes new, resurrected, and modified subfamilies within gymnophthalmid and scincid lizards, and boid, colubrid, and lamprophiid snakes.
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A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians
R. Alexander Pyron,John J. Wiens +1 more
TL;DR: This study provides further evidence that the supermatrix approach provides an effective strategy for inferring large-scale phylogenies using the combined results of previous studies, despite many taxa having extensive missing data.