Authors

David W. Bapst

chap 22

Affiliation

South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, USA
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Research interest

  • Graptoloid evolution
  • Macroevolution in the fossil record

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Comparative methods to fossil records
  • Preparing paleontological phylogenies
  • Accounting for uncertainties associated with fossil taxa

Jeremy M. Beaulieu

chaps 15 and 16

Affiliation

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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Michael Charleston

chap 20
Affiliation University of Sydney, Sidney, Australia
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Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds

chap 3
Affiliation Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Simon P. Blomberg

chap 5
Affiliation The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
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Jeannine Cavender-Bares

chap 19
Affiliation University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA
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Research interest

  • Community ecology
  • Trait evolution

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Community phylogenetic metrics
  • Trait evolution

Thomas Currie

chap 10
Affiliation University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Pierre de Villemereuil

chap 11
Affiliation Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Research interest

  • Evolutionary Ecology
  • Statistical genetics
  • Bayesian statistics

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Phylogenetic Generalised Least Square (PGLS)
  • Phylogenetic uncertainty
  • Phylogenetic Generalised Linear Mixed Model (PGLMM)

László Zsolt Garamszegi

editor, chaps 2, 7 and 12
Affiliation Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Seville, Spain
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Research interest

  • Behavioral ecology
  • Cultural evolution
  • Evolution of behavior
  • Host-parasite interactions

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Correlated trait evolution
  • Information Theoretic approaches to phylogenetic data
  • Models accounting for within-species variance
  • Phylogenetic Least Square Models
  • Phylogenetic Generalised Linear Mixed Model

Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer

chaps 2 and 8
Affiliation Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Seville, Spain
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Research interests

  • Macroevolution
  • Speciation
  • Trait evolution

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares
  • Phylogenetic Path Analysis
  • Continuous trait evolution

Theodore Garland Jr.

chap 9
Affiliation University of California, Riverside, USA
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Thomas F. Hansen

chap 14
Affiliation University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Research interests

  • Evolutionary theory
  • Theoretical biology
  • Macroevolution
  • Evolutionary quantitative genetics
  • Evolutionary developmental biology
  • Measurement theory

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Development and application of phylogenetic comparative methods
  • Process-based model and methods development
  • Incorporation of measurement error

Matthew R. Helmus

chap 19
Affiliation Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Research interest

  • Community ecology
  • Biogeography
  • Aquatic ecology

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Community phylogenetic metrics and models
  • Trait evolution

Travis Ingram

chap 18
Affiliation University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Hideki Innan

chap 17
Affiliation The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan
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Research interests

  • Population genetics
  • Molecular evolution
  • Genomic evolution

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Population genetics

Anthony R. Ives

chap 9
Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
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Nobuyuki Kutsukake

chap 17
Affiliation The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan
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Research interests

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Behavioural Ecology

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Heterogeneous evolutionary rates and modes
  • Application of Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)

Ran Libeskind-Hadas

chap 20
Affiliation Harvey Mudd College, Claremount, USA
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Luke Mahler

chap 18
Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, USA
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Research interests

  • Adaptive radiation
  • Macroevolution
  • Phylogenetic comparative methods
  • Herpetology

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Continuous trait evolution
  • Convergent evolution

Andrew Meade

chap 10
Affiliation University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Roger Mundry

chaps 6 and 12
Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Shinichi Nakagawa

chap 11
Affiliation University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Research interest

  • Research interest
  • Behavioural Ecology
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Gerontology
  • Comparative analysis & meta-analysis

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Phylogenetic generalised linear mixed modeling
  • Phylogenetic meta-analysis
  • Phylogenetic analysis of variation

Charles L. Nunn

chap 21
Affiliation Duke University, Duke, USA
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Research interest

  • Disease Ecology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Expertise in Phylogenetic Methods
  • Correlated trait evolution

Brian O’Meara

chaps 15 and 16
Affiliation University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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Emmanuel Paradis

chaps 1 and 13
Affiliation Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution
Université Montpellier 2 – CNRS – IRD
Place Eugène Bataillon — CC 065
34095 Montpellier cédex 05
France
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Research interest

  • Evolution and ecology of felids
  • Speciation-extinction models
  • Theory of evolution
  • Interactions between evolution and ecosystem dynamics

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Development of software for phylogenetic analyses
  • Analysis of traits with generalised estimation equations
  • Ancestral state reconstructionInteractions between evolution and ecosystem dynamics

William D. Pearse

chap 19
Affiliation University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA
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Research interest

  • Community ecology
  • Trait evolution
  • Evolutionary dynamics

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Community phylogenetic metrics and models
  • Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares Models
  • Phylogenetic construction

Andy Purvis

chap 19
Affiliation Natural History Museum, London, UK
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Research interest

  • Adaptation
  • Macroevolution
  • Extinction
  • Community ecology
  • Trait evolution

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Phylogenetic Generalized Least Square Models
  • Independent contrasts
  • CAIC
  • Phylogenetic construction, comparative methods
  • Developing phylogenetic comparative methods to study adaptation, macroevolution, extinction and community ecology

Liam J. Revell

chap 4
Affiliation University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA
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Research interest

  • Phylogenetic methods
  • Computational biology
  • Evolutionary ecology

Matthew Symonds

chap 5
Affiliation Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
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Research interest

  • The evolution of ecological, morphological, signal and chemical diversity

Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Information Theoretic approaches to phylogenetic data
  • Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares

Achaz von Hardenberg

chap 8
Affiliation Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta, Italy
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Expertise in phylogenetic methods

  • Causal inference
  • Phylogenetic Path Analysis
  • Structural equation models

Li Zhu

chap 21
Affiliation Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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