Phylogeographic Syntheses
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2011) | Viewed by 99422
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Population-level molecular datasets now exist for suites of co-distributed insects (and other arthropods) from numerous landscapes settings across the globe. Given that these taxon sets are usually composed of distantly-related species that play different ecological roles, an assessment of some general unifying principals (i.e., ‘phylogeographic consensus‘) is now possible. For this special issue of Insects, authors are invited to contribute original review articles that synthesize ideas and data from several empirical phylogeographic studies conducted in the same landscape system. When considering multiple taxa, review papers could leverage the power of comparative data to identify the recurrent historical processes that had taxonomically far-reaching impacts on the spatial distribution of biodiversity, as well as idiosyncratic (species-specific) inferences. Alternatively, where a series of interrelated studies have focused on the same species or species complex (e.g., genetics, morphology, behavior, ecology, etc), review papers could synthesize the current understanding long-term population history for that particular organismal group.
Dr. Ryan C. Garrick
Guest Editor