EcologybioRxiv
The latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae): conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories.
N. Chazot, F. Condamine, G. Dudas…·N. Wahlberg
This study evaluates hypotheses for the latitudinal diversity gradient in Nymphalidae butterflies, finding that low extinction rates and historical dispersal patterns, rather than speciation rates, explain diversity patterns.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-25906-8