John J. Wiens

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. A PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE ON ELEVATIONAL SPECIES RICHNESS PATTERNS IN MIDDLE AMERICAN TREEFROGS: WHY SO FEW SPECIES IN LOWLAND TROPICAL RAINFORESTS?
    Evolution, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1188–1207, 2007
  2. Phylogenetic history underlies elevational biodiversity patterns in tropical salamanders
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 274, no. 1612, pp. 919–928, 2007
  3. LOSS AND RE-EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX LIFE CYCLES IN MARSUPIAL FROGS: DOES ANCESTRAL TRAIT RECONSTRUCTION MISLEAD?
    Evolution, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 1886–1899, 2007
  4. A PHYLOGENETIC HOT SPOT FOR EVOLUTIONARY NOVELTY IN MIDDLE AMERICAN TREEFROGS
    Evolution, vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 2075–2085, 2007
  5. RAPID DIVERSIFICATION, INCOMPLETE ISOLATION, AND THE “SPECIATION CLOCK” IN NORTH AMERICAN SALAMANDERS (GENUS PLETHODON): TESTING THE HYBRID SWARM HYPOTHESIS OF RAPID RADIATION
    Evolution, vol. 60, no. 12, p. 2585, 2006
  6. DOES NICHE CONSERVATISM PROMOTE SPECIATION? A CASE STUDY IN NORTH AMERICAN SALAMANDERS
    Evolution, vol. 60, no. 12, p. 2604, 2006
  7. WHY DOES A TRAIT EVOLVE MULTIPLE TIMES WITHIN A CLADE? REPEATED EVOLUTION OF SNAKELIKE BODY FORM IN SQUAMATE REPTILES
    Evolution, vol. 60, no. 1, p. 123, 2006
  8. Missing data and the design of phylogenetic analyses
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 34–42, 2006
  9. Evolutionary and Ecological Causes of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient in Hylid Frogs: Treefrog Trees Unearth the Roots of High Tropical Diversity
    The American Naturalist, vol. 168, no. 5, pp. 579–596, 2006
  10. Ontogeny Discombobulates Phylogeny: Paedomorphosis and Higher-Level Salamander Relationships
    Systematic Biology, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 91–110, 2005
  11. Hylid Frog Phylogeny and Sampling Strategies for Speciose Clades
    Systematic Biology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 719–748, 2005
  12. Can Incomplete Taxa Rescue Phylogenetic Analyses from Long-Branch Attraction?
    Systematic Biology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 731–742, 2005
  13. NICHE CONSERVATISM: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology
    Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 519–539, 2005
  14. REPLICATE PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS, HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND PHYLOGENY IN HOLARCTIC TREEFROGS
    Evolution, vol. 59, no. 11, p. 2433, 2005
  15. Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 639–644, 2004
  16. DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF BODY FORM AND LIMB REDUCTION IN SQUAMATES: A RESPONSE TO SANGER AND GIBSON-BROWN
    Evolution, vol. 58, no. 9, p. 2107, 2004
  17. PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE FOR A MAJOR REVERSAL OF LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION IN PLETHODONTID SALAMANDERS
    Evolution, vol. 58, no. 12, p. 2809, 2004
  18. Convergence, Divergence, and Homogenization in the Ecological Structure of Emydid Turtle Communities: The Effects of Phylogeny and Dispersal
    The American Naturalist, vol. 164, no. 2, pp. 244–254, 2004
  19. The Role of Morphological Data in Phylogeny Reconstruction
    Systematic Biology, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 653–661, 2004
  20. From the Cover: Recurrent evolution of herbivory in small, cold-climate lizards: Breaking the ecophysiological rules of reptilian herbivory
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, no. 48, pp. 16819–16824, 2004
  21. What Is Speciation and How Should We Study It?
    The American Naturalist, vol. 163, no. 6, pp. 914–923, 2004
  22. SPECIATION AND ECOLOGY REVISITED: PHYLOGENETIC NICHE CONSERVATISM AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
    Evolution, vol. 58, no. 1, p. 193, 2004
  23. INCOMPLETE TAXA, INCOMPLETE CHARACTERS, AND PHYLOGENETIC ACCURACY: IS THERE A MISSING DATA PROBLEM?
    Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 23, no. 2, p. 297, 2003
  24. PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF HOPLOCERCID LIZARDS: CODING AND COMBINING MERISTIC, MORPHOMETRIC, AND POLYMORPHIC DATA USING STEP MATRICES
    Herpetologica, vol. 59, no. 3, p. 375, 2003
  25. Explaining Species Richness from Continents to Communities: The Time-for-Speciation Effect in Emydid Turtles
    The American Naturalist, vol. 161, no. 1, pp. 112–128, 2003
  26. When Are Phylogenetic Analyses Misled by Convergence? A Case Study in Texas Cave Salamanders
    Systematic Biology, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 501–514, 2003
  27. Ecological diversification and phylogeny of emydid turtles
    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 577–610, 2003
  28. Delimiting Species Using DNA and Morphological Variation and Discordant Species Limits in Spiny Lizards ( Sceloporus )
    Systematic Biology, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 69–91, 2002
  29. Character Analysis in Morphological Phylogenetics: Problems and Solutions
    Systematic Biology, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 689–699, 2001
  30. Widespread loss of sexually selected traits: how the peacock lost its spots
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 517–523, 2001
  31. HOW LIZARDS TURN INTO SNAKES: A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF BODY-FORM EVOLUTION IN ANGUID LIZARDS
    Evolution, vol. 55, no. 11, p. 2303, 2001
  32. Phylogenetic Relationships and Systematic Revision of Central Texas Hemidactyliine Plethodontid Salamanders
    Herpetological Monographs, vol. 14, p. 1, 2000
  33. Reconstructing phylogenies from allozyme data: comparing method performance with congruence
    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 613–632, 2000
  34. Decoupled evolution of display morphology and display behaviour in phrynosomatid lizards
    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 597–612, 2000
  35. War of the Iguanas: Conflicting Molecular and Morphological Phylogenies and Long-Branch Attraction in Iguanid Lizards
    Systematic Biology, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 143–159, 2000
  36. Species delimitation in systematics: inferring diagnostic differences between species
    Proceedings: Biological Sciences, vol. 267, no. 1444, pp. 631–636, 2000
  37. Phylogenetic evidence for multiple losses of a sexually selected character in phrynosomatid lizards
    Proceedings: Biological Sciences, vol. 266, no. 1428, pp. 1529–1529, 1999
  38. POLYMORPHISM IN SYSTEMATICS AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
    Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 327–362, 1999
  39. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution of Sexual Dichromatism among Populations of the Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii)
    Evolution, vol. 53, no. 6, p. 1884, 1999
  40. Phylogenetic Analysis and Intraspecific Variation: Performance of Parsimony, Likelihood, and Distance Methods
    Systematic Biology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 228–253, 1998
  41. Testing Phylogenetic Methods with Tree Congruence: Phylogenetic Analysis of Polymorphic Morphological Characters in Phrynosomatid Lizards
    Systematic Biology, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 427–444, 1998
  42. The Accuracy of Methods for Coding and Sampling Higher-Level Taxa for Phylogenetic Analysis: A Simulation Study
    Systematic Biology, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 397–413, 1998
  43. Does Adding Characters with Missing Data Increase or Decrease Phylogenetic Accuracy?
    Systematic Biology, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 625–640, 1998
  44. Combining Data Sets with Different Phylogenetic Histories
    Systematic Biology, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 568–581, 1998
  45. Phylogeny of the Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus) Based on Molecular and Morphological Evidence
    Herpetological Monographs, vol. 11, p. 1, 1997
  46. Accuracy of Phylogenetic Analysis Including and Excluding Polymorphic Characters
    Systematic Biology, vol. 46, no. 2, p. 332, 1997
  47. Evolution of the Lizard Family Phrynosomatidae as Inferred from Diverse Types of Data
    Herpetological Monographs, vol. 10, p. 43, 1996
  48. Polymorphic Characters in Phylogenetic Systematics
    Systematic Biology, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 482, 1995
  49. Combining Data Sets with Different Numbers of Taxa for Phylogenetic Analysis
    Systematic Biology, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 548, 1995
  50. Weighting, Partitioning, and Combining Characters in Phylogenetic Analysis
    Systematic Biology, vol. 43, no. 2, p. 278, 1994
  51. NEW DIRECTIONS IN THERAPY FOR OCULAR ALLERGY
    International Ophthalmology Clinics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 332–337, 1988