Nicolai’s paper investigating the biogeography and diversification dynamics of Hypericum came out today. Along with diversification rate analyses in BAMM and MEDUSA, we used bayou to investigate rates of climatic niche evolution associated with biogeographic movements and shifts in global climate.

Nürk, NM, S Uribe-Convers, B Gehrke, DC Tank, and FR Blattner. 2015. Oligocene niche shift, Miocene diversification–cold tolerance and accelerated speciation rates in the St. John’s Worts (Hypericum, Hypericaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 80.