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Curriculum VitaeJohn J. Wiens

Present address:Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ 85721Web-page: http://wienslab.com/Home.html

Research interests:(1) Phylogenetic approaches to evolution and ecology(2) Systematic theory and methodology(3) Phylogeny, evolution, and ecology of reptiles and amphibians

Education:The University of Kansas, B.S. in Systematics and Ecology, 1991

Senior Honors Thesis: “Phylogenetic position and relationships of the treelizards (genus Urosaurus)”

Supervisor: William E. DuellmanThe University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. in Zoology, 1995

Dissertation Title: “Phylogeny of the lizard genus Sceloporus: Systematics,evolutionary morphology, and evaluation of phylogenetic approaches.”

Supervisors: David C. Cannatella and David M. Hillis

Professional experience:2013–present, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,

University of Arizona2006–2012, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony

Brook University2003–2006, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony

Brook University2001–2002, Associate Curator, Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie

Museum of Natural History2000–2002, Supervisor, Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Carnegie Museum

of Natural History1996–2001, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of

Pittsburgh1995–2001, Assistant Curator, Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie

Museum of Natural History1991–95, NSF Graduate Fellow, University of Texas at Austin.1993–94, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin.1987–91, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Division of Herpetology,

University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.

Teaching experience:Herpetology (Ecol483), University of Arizona, spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.


Graduate seminar (Ecol586) “Macroecology, macroevoution, and speciation”University of Arizona, fall 2014, 2015, 2016

Herpetology (Bio 348; Undergraduate; “Diversity and evolution of reptiles andamphibians”), Stony Brook University, spring 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

Evolution (BEE 551; Graduate level), Stony Brook University, fall 2004, 2005,2007, 2008, 2009

Evolution (BIO 354; Undergraduate), Stony Brook University, fall 2003, 2005,2007, 2009

Graduate seminar on evolutionary and ecological responses to climate change,Stony Brook University, fall 2011

Graduate seminar on evolution and species interactions, Stony BrookUniversity, spring 2007

Graduate seminar on species richness, Stony Brook University, spring 2003Phylogenetics, University of Pittsburgh, fall 1996, 2000Herpetology, Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh,

summer 1996Teaching Assistant for: Herpetology, Comparative Anatomy, Structure and

Function of Organisms (Univ. Texas; 1993-1994)

Graduate student direction (major advisor):Cristian Roman-Palacios (Ph.D. program, Univ. Arizona, started fall 2016)Elizabeth Miller (Ph.D. program, Univ. Arizona, started fall 2014; NSF

Graduate Fellow)Shea Lambert (Ph.D. program, Univ. Arizona, started fall 2011 at Stony Brook;

NSF Graduate Fellow)Xia Hua (Ph.D., Stony Brook, 2012); currently Postdoctoral Researcher at

Australian National University (with Lindell Bromham)M.-Caitlin Fisher-Reid (Ph.D., Stony Brook, 2012); currently Assistant

Professor, Bridgewater State UniversityDan Moen (Ph.D., Stony Brook, 2012; NSF Graduate Fellow); currently

Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State UniversityPatrick Stephens (Ph.D., Stony Brook, 2005); currently Research Assistant

Professor at Univ. GeorgiaCarl Hutter (M.A., Stony Brook, 2012); currently Ph.D. program at Univ.

KansasAntonin Machac (M.A., Stony Brook, 2012); currently Ph.D. program at Stony

Brook Univ.Scott David (M.A., Stony Brook, 2012)Zachary Chejanovski (M.A., Stony Brook, 2012); currently Ph.D. program at

Univ. Rhode IslandNathan Butler (M.A., Stony Brook, 2011)Allison Onstine (M.A., Stony Brook, 2011)Carolina Ulloa (M.A., Stony Brook, 2011)Christina Wolfe (M.A., Stony Brook, 2004)

Graduate committee:Arizona: Alice Cang: Ph.D., EEB; Joseph Charboneau: Ph.D., EEB; Zheng Li,

Ph.D., EEB. Antonio Gomez (Master’s, Dept. Entomology; 2014); Chris


Gurguis, Master’s, EEB (2014); Tim O’Connor: Master’s, EEB (2015);Samantha Anderson, Master’s, EEB (2016);

Stony Brook: Mireya Mayor, Ph.D. 2008 (Dept. Anthropology); Shu-Dan Yeh,Ph.D. 2009 (Dept. Ecology & Evolution).

Pittsburgh: Charles Welsh, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. 1997External: James Austin, Queens Univ., Ontario, Ph.D. 2003 (now Assistant

Professor, Univ. Florida); Frank Fontanella, City Univ. New York, Ph.D.2009; Alex Pyron, City Univ. New York, Ph.D. 2009; Allyson Fenwick-Modra, Univ. Central Florida, Ph.D. 2012; Daniel Scantlebury, RochesterUniv., Ph.D. 2014

External examiner (Ph.D.): S. P. Vijayakumar, Centre for Ecological Studies,Indian Institute of Science (2013)

External examiner (Ph.D.): Julie-Lee Yaw, University of British Columbia(2013)

External examiner (Master’s): Elkin Tenorio, Universidad de Los Andes,Colombia (2013)

Postdoctoral direction:Daniel Portik (2017): currentZhou Chen (2017): currentTania Hernandez (2015–2017): currenty researcher at LANGEBIO (Laboratorio

Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad) in Irapuato, MexicoTereza Jezkova (2015–2017): currently Assistant Professor at Miami University,

OhioJeff Streicher (2013–2014); currently Assistant Curator at British Museum of

Natural HistoryAlex Pyron (2009–2010); currently Assistant Professor, George Washington

UniversityWindsor Aguirre (2007–2009); currently Associate Professor, DePaul

UniversityKenneth Kozak (2005–2007); currently Associate Professor, University of

MinnesotaSarah Smith (2004–2006); currently living in AustraliaTag Engstrom (2003–2004); currently Associate Professor, California State

University at ChicoJames Fetzner (2001–2002); currently Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology,

Carnegie Museum of Natural HistoryRobert Espinoza (2000–2001); currently Professor, California State University

at NorthridgeChristopher Parkinson (2000–2001); currently Professor, University of Central

Florida

Visiting foreign students and scientists (partial list):Pablo Guerrero (Chile; Fullbright Fellow; Univ. Chile)–2010Serkan Gul (Turkey)–2010–2011Thomas Blankers (Netherlands; Amsterdam Univ.)–2011Greta Carrete-Vega (Spain)–2011Rubi Nelsi Meza-Lazaro (Mexico; Ph.D. student; UNAM)–2011Ignacio Quintero (Colombia; postgraduate: Univ. de los Andes)–2011


Virginia Valcarcel (Spain; postdoctoral researcher)–2012Cendy Zeng (China; undergraduate Fudan Univ.)–2012Nelsy Rocio Pinto Sanchez (Colombia; Univ. de los Andes)–2012Maria Fernanda Bonetti (Brazil: Ph.D. student, Univ. Federal do Paraná)–2013Yuchi Zheng (China; Chengdu Institute Biology; sabbatical visitor)–2014Lucas Barrientos (Colombia: Ph.D. student: Univ. de los Andes)–2014Victoria Souza (Brazil: Ph.D. student: Univ. Federal de Goiás)–2014–2015Uri Omar Garcia (Mexico: Ph.D. student; UNAM)–2015Adrian Nieto Montes de Oca (Mexico: Professor: UNAM)–2015Andreas Meyer (Brazil: Ph.D. student: Univ. Federal do Parana)–2015–2016Longhui Lin (China: Hangzhou University; sabbatical visitor)–2015Melissa Bars-Closel (Brazil; Ph.D. student; Universidade de Sao

Paulo)–2015–2016Yan Haifei (China: South China Botanical Garden; sabbatical

visitor)–2015–2016Tiangang Gao (China: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary

Botany, Beijing; sabbatical visitor)–2016Dongyuan Song (China, Fudan University, undergraduate)–2016Kenji Hayashi (Brown University, undergraduate)–2016Lian Chen (China, Jiangsu Second Normal University; sabbatical

visitor)–2016–2017Hong Li (China, Nanjing Normal University; sabbatical visitor)–2016–2017Weiwei Zhou (China, Kunming Institute of Zoology; visiting scientist)–2017-

2018Peng Li (China, Nanjing Normal University; visiting scientist)–2017–2018Yan-Fu Qu (China, Nanjing Normal University; visiting scientist)–2018–2019

Workshops givenMacroecology and macroevolution winter course (1 week, December 2014;

École Normale Supérieure, Paris; co-taught with Brian Enquist and NeoMartinez)

Phylogenetic and comparative methods (~2 weeks; Santiago, Chile, October2011; with Pablo Guerrero)

Comparative methods in R (1 day; Leiden, The Netherlands, fall 2010)Phylogenetic and comparative methods (2 weeks; Mysore, India, summer

2006; with R. Geeta)

Field experience:Approximately 13 months over various trips to Mexico, Ecuador, Peru,Argentina, and Madagascar, with more limited experience in Brazil, China,France, India, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Panama, Spain, and Taiwan. Extensiveexperience in the U.S.

Professional service:Editor-in-Chief, Quarterly Review of Biology, 2007–2010Editor, Quarterly Review of Biology, 2006–2007, 2010–presentAssociate Editor, Ecology Letters, 2009–presentAssociate Editor, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011–2014Associate Editor, Ecography, 2007–2009


Associate Editor, American Naturalist, 2005–2009Associate Editor, Evolution, 2001–2003Associate Editor, Systematic Biology, 1996–2000Associate Editor, Herpetologica, 1996–2000Editorial Board, Systematic Biology, 1995–1996Editorial Board, Copeia, 1999–2008Editorial Board, Journal of Herpetology, 2001–presentEditorial Advisory Board, Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2005–present

Academic Editor, PLoS Biology (2014)Guest Editor, Proceedings Natl. Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. (2010, 2015, 2017)Ad Hoc Associate Editor, Conservation Biology (2007)

Web-based journals:Editorial Board, The International Journal of Ecology, 2008–2013

Council, Society of Systematic Biologists (2003–2005)Long-Range Planning Committee, Society of Systematic Biologists (2007–2009)Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

(2003-2008)Rosemary Grant Award Committee, Society for the Study of Evolution (2011)Scientific Committee, World Congress of Herpetology, 2016

Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Integrative Biogeography, Spring 2007Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on the Tree of Life, Spring 2008Invited Participant, NCEAS workshop on “Niche conservatism and diversity

gradients,” Fall 2008, 2009Invited Participant, workshop on niche width, University of Toronto,

Scarborough, Summer 2015

German Research Foundation, Grant Review Panel 2017Swedish Research Council, Grant Review Panel 2014, 2015

NSF Systematic Biology Panel, Fall 2000NSF Biotic Surveys and Inventory Panel, Spring 2002NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, Spring 2003NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology Panel, Fall 2004NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology Panel, Fall 2005NSF Systematic Biology Panel, Fall 2007NSF Evolutionary Genetics Panel, Spring 2009NSF Evolutionary Genetics Pre-proposal Panel, Spring 2012Declined (Evolutionary Genetics, Fall 2006; Evolutionary Ecology, Spring 2010,

2016)Symposium organizer (“Morphological data in phylogenetic analysis: Recent

progress and unresolved problems”), Society of Systematic Biologists,1996

Symposium organizer (“Species delimitation: new approaches for discoveringdiversity”), Society of Systematic Biologists, 2006


Symposium co-organizer (“How lizards turn into snakes: combining fossils,phylogeny, function, genetics, development, morphology, and ecology”),co-organized with Agustin Camacho, 8th World Congress of Herpetology,2016

Reviewer for 104 journals: Acta Biotheoretica, Acta Oecologica, AmericanNaturalist, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Animal Behavior, Annalsof the Carnegie Museum, Bioinformatics, Biological Conservation, BiologicalJournal of the Linnean Society, Biological Reviews (Cambridge PhilosophicalSociety), Biology Letters, Bioscience, BMC Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology,BMC Genetics, BMC Genomics, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Cladistics,Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Conservation Biology, ConservationGenetics, Copeia, Current Biology, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology Letters,Ecosphere, Evolution, Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology,Evolutionary Ecology, Frontiers in Zoology, Functional Ecology, Gene, GenomeBiology and Evolution, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography,Heredity, Herpetologica, Herpetological Journal, Herpetological Monographs,Herpetological Review, Human Mutation, Integrative and Comparative Biology,International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, International Journal of Zoology,Journal of Anatomy, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journalof Ethology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Heredity, Journal ofHerpetology, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Molecular Evolution,Journal of Morphology, Journal of Natural History, Journal of Paleontology,Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal ofVertebrate Paleontology, Journal for Zoological Systematics and EvolutionaryResearch, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Methods in Ecology and Evolution,Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Phylogeneticsand Evolution, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications,Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics, Oecologia, Oikos, TheOpen Conservation Biology Journal, The Open Evolution Journal, OrganismsDiversity and Evolution, Paleobiology, PeerJ, Philosophical Transactions of theRoyal Society of London, Population Ecology, PNAS, Proceedings of the RoyalSociety of London Series B, PLoS Biology, PLoS One, PLoS Currents: Tree ofLife, Quarterly Review of Biology, Royal Society Open Science, Science, ScienceAdvances, Scientific Correspondence (Nature), Scientific Reports (Nature),Scientific Publications of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History,Systematic Biology, Systematic Botany, Toxins, Trends in Ecology and Evolution,Trends in Genetics, Tropical Zoology, Zoologica Scripta, Zoological Journal of theLinnean Society, Zoology, ZooKeys, Zootaxa

Reviewer for (book chapters): "Phylogenies and the Comparative Method inAnimal Behavior " (1996; E. Martins, ed.), "Biology of PlethodontidSalamanders" (2000; Bruce et al., eds.), "Temperature Dependent SexDetermination in Vertebrates" (2003; Valenzuela and Lance, eds.),“Evolution since Darwin: the first 150 years” (2010; Bell et al., eds.)

Reviewer for (book proposals): Cambridge University Press, OxfordUniversity Press, Princeton University Press, Roberts and Company,Sinauer, University of Chicago Press

Reviewer for (funding agencies): U.S. National Science Foundation (Programs:Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genetics,


Population Biology, Animal Behavior, Long-Term Research inEnvironmental Biology, Paleontology, Biotic Surveys and Inventory),National Geographic Society, Austrian Science Fund, Comision Nacionalde Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica de Chile, French NationalResearch Agency, German Research Foundation, Leverhulme Trust(United Kingdom), Marie Curie Co-Fund (Belgium), Natural EnvironmentResearch Council (United Kingdom), Netherlands Organisation forScientific Research, Polish National Science Center, Portugese Foundationfor Science and Technology, Royal Society of New Zealand (MarsdenFund, Centre of Research Excellence Fund), Research Committee of theUniversity of Crete (Greece), Research Council of Norway, South Africa’sNational Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation,Swedish Research Council, U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation

Reviewer for (promotion/tenure): American Museum of Natural History,Arizona State University, Boston University, Bucknell University, CityUniversity of New York, Indian Institute for Science, Iowa StateUniversity, National Museum of Natural History, Rochester University,Rutgers University, San Diego State University, Tulane University,University of California (Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside), University ofColorado, University of Connecticut, University of Florida, University ofHawaii, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, University ofNevada (Reno), University of Oklahoma, University of New Orleans,University of Tennessee, University of Texas (Arlington), University ofToronto

Chair, Henri Seibert Award Committee (Best Student Paper Competition),Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1998

Judge, Ernst Mayr Award (Best Student Paper Competition, Society ofSystematic Biologists), 1999

Judge, Stoye Award (Best Student Paper Competition, American Society ofIchthyologists and Herpetologists), 2000

Judge, Storer Award (Best Student Poster Competition, American Society ofIchthyologists and Herpetologists), 2001

Judge, Award for Graduate Student Research, Society of Systematic Biologists,2009

Judge, Rosemary Grant Award for Graduate Student Research, Society for theStudy of Evolution, 2010

Departmental ServiceUniversity of ArizonaGraduate Admissions Committee 2016–2018Monday Seminar Committee, 2016Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2014Peer Review Committee, 2014, 2015Retreat Committee, 2013–2014Stony BrookUndergraduate Program Director, 2009–2012Preliminary Exams Committee, 2007, 2010Departmental Retreat Coordinator, 2006–2007Evolutionary Genomics Search Committee, 2006–2007


Departmental Colloquium Coordinator, 2006–2007, 2010–2011Entering Students Advisory Committee (ESAC), 2004–2006Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003–2004

University Service (Stony Brook)Student and Faculty Awards Committee, 2008Delegate for OTS (Organization for Tropical Studies), 2008–2012Undergraduate Biology Executive Committee, 2010–2012

Professional organizations:American Society of Ichthyologists and HerpetologistsAmerican Society of NaturalistsHerpetologist's LeagueSociety of Systematic BiologistsSociety for the Study of Amphibians and ReptilesSociety for the Study of Evolution

Grants:National Science Foundation, 2017–2020, “Collaborative Research:

Understanding large-scale patterns of ecomorph evolution” ($278,905 toPI Wiens). Collaborative project with fellow PI Dan Moen

Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI) for one-month stay at the Kunming Institute of Botany, summer2017 (49,474 Yuan, ~$7,574 USD)

National Science Foundation, 2011–2012, “Dissertation Research: The role ofhistory in adaptation to novel environments: the role of morphology,performance, and phylogenetic history in frogs” ($12,821; for Dan Moen).

Temminck Fellowship, 2010, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis(4,000 Euros).

National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program, 2004–2008 (no-costextension, 2009), “Collaborative Research: ATOL: The Deep Scaly Project:Resolving squamate phylogeny using genomic and morphologicalapproaches” ($2,426,390 total; $645,700 to PI Wiens). Collaborativeproject with fellow PIs Tod Reeder, Jack Sites, and Maureen Kearney (NSFEF 0334923).

National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program, 2004-2005,“Dissertation Research: A phylogenetic perspective on communityecology and ecological diversification in emydid turtles” ($11,956; forPatrick Stephens).

National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program, 2002–2005,"Collaborative Research: Phylogeny and montane species richness inplethodontid salamanders" ($275,000 total; $125,000 to PI Wiens).Collaborative project with with fellow PI Paul Chippindale.

Netting Fund Grant, Carnegie Museum, 2002, “Phylogenetic relationships ofhylid frogs in Middle America” ($6,695).

Netting Fund Grant, Carnegie Museum, 2001, “A phylogenetic analysis of thecoevolution of ecology, morphology, and locomotor performance inemydid turtles” ($5,879) with Patrick Stephens (PI).


National Geographic Society, 2000–2001, “The evolution of herbivory inliolaemine lizards” ($9,400) co-PI with Robert Espinoza (PI).

Carnegie Institute, 2000–2002, "Establishing a molecular phylogeneticslaboratory at Carnegie Museum of Natural History" ($275,000).

National Science Foundation, Research Collections in Systematics and Ecology,1997, “Renovation of herpetological collections at Carnegie Museum ofNatural History” ($49,727), co-PI with Ellen Censky (PI).

Provost’s Resarch Instrumentation Program (Univerity of Pittsburgh), 1997.“Molecular equipment for novel ecological and evolutionary research”($14,908), with Susan Kalisz (PI) and Tia-Lynn Ashman (Co-PI).

Netting/O”Neill Fund Grants, Carnegie Museum, 1997-1998 “Speciation,phylogeny, and gene flow in the spiny lizards of the Sceloporus jarrovicomplex inferred from mtDNA sequences and morphology” ($12,808).

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991–95.Ernst Mayr Grant, Harvard University, 1992 ($1,100).Gaige Fund Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists,

1992 ($500).Theodore Roosevelt Award, American Museum of Natural History, 1992

($500).4 Research Fellowships, Department of Zoology, Univ. Texas, 1992-94 ($1,900).Research Fellowship, Texas Memorial Museum, 1994 ($300).Collection Study Grant, American Museum of Natural History, 1994 ($400).Sigma Xi Research Grant, 1992 ($300).Thomas J. Dee Award, Field Museum of Natural History, 1992 ($250).3 Undergraduate Research Awards, Univ. Kansas, 1988-89 ($2,500).Panorama Society Grant, Univ. Kansas Museum of Natural History, 1989

($400).Research Grant, Dept. Systematics and Ecology, Univ. Kansas, 1989 ($500).

Awards and Honors:ISI Highly Cited Researcher, 2014American Society of Naturalists President's Award 2011 (for outstanding

paper published in the American Naturalist in 2010) for Kozak and Wiens2010

BIOS Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. Nevada-Las Vegas, April 2009Kirschner Lecture, Department of Zoology, Washington State University,

March 2008Research Highlight in Nature (for Wiens, 2016; PLoS Biology)Research Highlight in Nature (for Jezkova and Wiens, 2016; Proc. R. Soc. Lond.)Research Highlight in Nature (for Scholl and Wiens, 2016; Proc. R. Soc. Lond.)Research Highlight in Nature Climate Change (for Quintero and Wiens, 2013;

Ecol. Lett.)Research Highlight in Nature (for Carrete-Vega and Wiens, 2012; Proc. R. Soc.

Lond.)Editor’s Choice in Science (for Wiens et al., 2011; Ecol. Lett.)Editor’s Choice in Science (for Wiens and Servedio, 2000; Proc. R. Soc. Lond.)“Recommended” paper in Faculty of 1000 Prime, December 2016 (Wiens, 2016,

PLoS Biology)


“Recommended” paper in Ecology, Faculty of 1000, July 2010 (Kozak andWiens 2010; Am. Nat.)

“Recommended” paper in Ecology, Faculty of 1000, June 2009 (Wiens et al.2009; Evolution)

“Recommended” paper in Ecology, Faculty of 1000, November 2006 (Wiens etal. 2006; Am. Nat.)

“Must Read” paper in Ecology, Faculty of 1000, November 2004 (Espinoza etal., 2004; PNAS)

“Recommended” paper in Evolution, Faculty of 1000, August 2004 (Wiens,2004; Am. Nat.)

Outstanding Paper Award from Journal of Systematics and Evolution (for Wiensand Moen 2008), for 2008–2013

Citation for top cited paper in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2008–2010(for Townsend et al. 2008)—November 2010

Subject of “Inspirations” interview for the Systematics Association Newsletter,2011

“Top Referee” for Proceedings of the Royal Society of London for 2011Nominated for Treasurer, American Society of Naturalists, 2002Honorable Mention for Ernst Mayr Award (Best Student Paper, Society of

Systematic Biologists), 1993.Honorable Mention for Best Student Paper Presentation, Herpetologist's

Leage, 1991.National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991–1995.Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis in Biology, Univ. Kansas, 1991.Graduated Summa Cum Laude, with Honors from Division of Biological

Sciences, Univ. Kansas, 1991.

Invited seminars:1990. Universidad Catolica, Quito, Ecuador1992. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian)1994. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Washington University (St. Louis;

herpetology group)1995. American Museum of Natural History, University of Pittsburgh,

University of Alabama1996. University of Texas at Arlington, Slippery Rock University, Edinboro

University of Pennsylvania1997. Cornell University, San Diego State University1998. George Washington University, Drexel University1999. Ohio University, State University of New York at Stony Brook

(Department of Anatomical Sciences), University of Kansas (NaturalHistory Museum), University of Nevada at Reno (two talks), Universityof Oregon

2000. American Museum of Natural History, Pennsylvania State University-Erie, Field Museum of Natural History (two talks), Rutgers University

2001. University of Nebraska (two talks), University of Texas at Arlington(student-invited speaker), University of Kansas (Natural HistoryMuseum), IV Congreso Argentino de Herpetologia (plenary lecture)

2002. University of California at Berkeley (two talks), State University of NewYork at Stony Brook (Department of Ecology and Evolution), University


of Akron, University of Minnesota (Bell Museum), Brigham YoungUniversity

2003. Queens University (Ontario), Yale University (phylogenetics group)2004. Hofstra University, University of Connecticut (two talks), University of

Iowa (Dept. Geosciences), Yale University (lecture in biogeography)2005. Yale University, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-Panama

(Tupper lecture, Bambi talk), City University of New York–New YorkConsortium in Evolutionary Primatology

2006. Ohio State University, Center for Ecological Studies (Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore, India), Iowa State University, Harvard University, IXReunion Nacional de Herpetologia, Mexico (plenary lecture), StonyBrook University (Living World public lecture series)

2007. University of Calgary, University of Rochester, University of Minnesota,Biodiversity Research Center-Academica Sinica (Taiwan), HangzhouUniversity (China), Louisiana State University, University of NorthCarolina-Chapel Hill

2008. University of Toronto-Mississauga, Washington State University(Kirschner Lecture; annual student-invited speaker), University ofMontana, University of Oklahoma, Cornell University, AmericanMuseum of Natural History (niche modeling group), Fudan University(Shanghai, China; 4 talks), University of Connecticut (annual student-invited speaker in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept.)

2009. University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BIOS Distinguished Lecturer; annualstudent-invited speaker), Institute of Advanced Studies (Jerusalem,Israel; Darwin 09 celebration), Instituto de Biologia (UniversidadNacional Autonoma de Mexico; Darwin 09 celebration); IV CongressoBrasileiro de Herpetologia (2 plenary lectures); Universidade de Goiania(Brazil); Instituto de Ecologia (Xalapa, Mexico; Darwin 09 Colloquium;student-invited plenary speaker); Dona Ana Biological Station (Sevilla,Spain); Berlin Museum (Germany)

2010. University of Chicago; Wageningen University (The Netherlands;student-invited speaker); National Museum of Natural History (Leiden,The Netherlands); Plenary lecture, XV Spanish Herpetological Congress(Sevilla); Plenary lecture, XI Reunion Nacional de Herpetologia, Mexico(Toluca); University of Arizona; Keynote lecture, ColombianHerpetology Association meeting (Medellin); Universidad Nacional deColombia (Bogota)

2011. University of Toronto (Scarborough); City College of New York;Keynote Lecture, Munich Graduate Programs for Evolution, Ecologyand Systematics Summer School, Chiemsee, Germany; Rice University;Universidad de Chile (Santiago); Opening Plenary Lecture, meeting ofthe Sociedad de Biología de Chile (Puerto Varas, Chile); McGillUniversity

2012. New York Botanical Garden; Washington University (annual student-invited speaker for Ecology and Evolution Program); Fudan UniversityAdvanced Ecology Lecture; University of Central Florida; ColumbiaUniversity

2013. Opening Keynote Lecture, BioSystEU (Vienna, Austria); University ofRennes (France); College of France (Paris); Porto Alegre Biological


Evolution Workshop (Brazil); University of South Florida; AmericanMuseum of Natural History

2014. Keynote Lecture, 3rd Network for Neotropical Biogeography Meeting(Bogota, Colombia); U.S. Department of the Interior (webinar);University of Rochester; Qionzhou University (Sanya, China); ColoradoState University; University of Colorado; University of California,Berkeley (Global Change Biology seminar series); École NormaleSupérieure, Paris

2015. University of Zurich2016. Sun-Yat Sen University (Guangzhou, China)2017. State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany (Beijing,

China); South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China); KunmingInstitute of Botany (China); Nanjing Normal University (China);University of Arizona (School of Natural Resources and Environment);Public Keynote lecture: Chiricahua-Peloncillo Heritage Days (Rodeo,New Mexico).

2018. Oklahoma State University (scheduled)

Invited symposium papers:

(1) “Phylogeny of Sceloporus I: Analysis of diverse data sets.” Symposiumentitled “Sceloporus. A model system.” American Society ofIchthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologist's League, Austin,TX, May, 1993 (with Tod W. Reeder).

(2) “Phylogeny of Sceloporus II: Corroboration and classification.” Symposiumentitled “Sceloporus. A model system.” American Society ofIchthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologist's League, Austin,TX, May, 1993 (with Tod W. Reeder).

(3) “Phylogenetic analysis of polymorphic morphological characters:Inferences from empirical and simulated data sets.” Symposium entitled“Morphological data in phylogenetic analysis: Recent progress andunresolved problems.” Society of Systematic Biologists, Saint Louis, MO,June, 1996.

(4) “Evolution of display morphology and display behavior in spiny lizards(genus Sceloporus): A statistical, phylogenetic analysis.” Symposiumentitled “A tropical natural history” (in honor of William E. Duellman).Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, KS,August, 1996.

(5) “Phylogeny and taxonomy of hoplocercid lizards.” Symposium entitled“Lizard systematics and evolutionary biology for the next millenium: Asymposium honoring the life work of Richard Etheridge.” AmericanSociety of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Herpetologists’ League,Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, State College, PA,


June, 1999 (wth Richard Etheridge).

(6) "Character selection and the methodology of morphologicalphylogenetics." Etheridge Symposium, State College, PA, June, 1999(with Steve Poe).

(7) "War of the iguanas: Conflicting phylogenies, long-branch attraction, anddisparate rates of molecular and morphological evolution in iguanidlizards." Etheridge Symposium, State College, PA, June, 1999 (wth BradHollingsworth).

(8) "Effects of including incomplete taxa and characters on phylogeneticanalysis" Symposium on missing data and phylogeny reconstruction.Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Mexico City, October 2000.

(9) "Consensus, combination, and supertrees: integrating diverse data toreconstruct evolutionary trees" DIMACS (Center for DiscreteMathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) Tutorial and Workshopon Bioconsensus II, Rutgers University, NJ, October 2001.

(10) "Phylogeny and paedomorphosis in salamanders" Symposium entitled"Contemporary herpetological research: a tribute to Robert Jaeger"Herpetologists League, Kansas City, MO, July 2002.

(11) "Phylogenetic incongruence, combining data, and large-scale phylogenies"Symposium entitled "Incongruence, data partitions, and phylogeneticsignal" ICSEB VI, Sixth International Congress of Systematic andEvolutionary Biology, Patras, Greece, September, 2002.

(12) “Paedomorphosis and evolutionary morphology of salamanders”Symposium entitled “Urodele phylogeny and reproduction” sponsoredby the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Manaus, Brazil,June 2003.

(13) “Hidden phylogenetic diversity of Neotropical treefrogs” Symposiumentitled “Diversity and ecology of Amazonian frogs” sponsored by theHerpetologist’s League, Manaus, Brazil, June 2003.

(14) “The impact of missing data and incomplete taxa on phylogeneticaccuracy” Symposium entitled “Missing data in phylogenetic analysis”for NSF-funded Deep Time workshop, held at George WashingtonUniversity, Washington, D.C., March 2004.

(15) “A phylogenetic perspective on global biodiversity patterns” Symposimentitled “Phylogeny and biodiversity science” held at the “FirstDIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: Integrating biodiversity forhuman well-being” in Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2005 (with MichaelDonoghue).


(16) “Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient inamphibians” American Society of Naturalist’s Vice PresidentialSymposium entitled “Merging ecological and evolutionary approachesto interpreting geographic gradients in species richness.” June 24, 2006,Stony Brook, New York

(17) “Molecules, morphology, and species delimitation” Introduction forsymposium entitled “Species delimitation: new approaches fordiscovering diversity” sponsored by the Society of Systematic Biologists.June 23, 2006, Stony Brook, New York.

(18) “Paleontology, genomics, and combined-data phylogenetics: can moleculardata improve phylogeny estimation for fossil taxa?” Symposiumentitled “Bringing together the living and dead: integrating extant andfossil biodiversity in evolutionary studies” sponsored by the BotanicalSociety of America. August 1, 2006, Chico, California.

(19) “Combining phylogenies and GIS-based methods to study evolutionaryand ecological patterns” symposium “Evoluionary biology in the 21stCentury–tracing patterns of evolution through the Tree of Life”sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Chinese Academy of Sciences, and DIVERSITAS. June 6, 2007, BeijingChina.

(20) “Using GIS and biogeographic data to help understand characterevolution” colloquium “Integration of spatial and ecological data inevolutionary studies” sponsored by the Botanical Society of America,July 11, 2007, Chicago, Illinois.

(21) “Empowering herpetological phylogenetics with genomic resources”symposium “Herpetology in the age of genomics“ sponsored by theSociety for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. July 13, 2007, SaintLouis, Missouri.

(22) “Why are there so many species of tropical bolitoglossine salamanders?”Symposium honoring David Wake at Fifth Conference on Biology ofPlethodontid Salamanders, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico, August4, 2007.

(23) “Global biodiversity patterns: evolutionary and ecological causes” BuffonInternational Symposium “Natural history museums and institutions inthe 21st century.” October 18, 2007, Paris, France.

(24) “Phylogenetic perspectives on community assembly and the competition-divergence-coexistence conundrum” Symposium on “Phylogeneticapproaches to community ecology” sponsored by the Ecological Societyof Japan, March 17, 2008. Fukuoka, Japan.


(25) “Evolutionary ecology and the Tree of Life” NSF-sponsored workshop“Where to next with the Tree of Life?” April 8, 2008. Washington D.C.

(26) “The evolution of snake-like body form in squamate reptiles: patterns,rates, and levels of explanation” Symposium entitled: “Evolutionarytransitions of body shape in extant amphibians and reptiles: call forintegrative approaches” sponsored by the 6th World Congress ofHerpetology, August 20, 2008. Manaus, Brazil.

(27) “The unexpected ecology of allopatric speciation” Keynote lecture forsymposium on “Mechanisms of speciation” at XXth InternationalCongress of Zoology, August 29, 2008. Paris, France.

(28) “Phylogenies and paradigm shifts in evolutionary biology” Keynotelecture for symposium “Recent advances in macroevolutionaryapproaches to evolutionary studies” European Society for EvolutionaryBiology, August 24–29, 2009. Torino, Italy.

(29) “Using phylogenies in evolutionary biology and ecology” for workshop“Phylogenetic methods and applications” August 31, 2009. Asti, Italy.

(30) “The niche, large-scale biogeography, and species interactions ” forsymposium “Biogeography and ecology: two lenses in one telescope” atVth International Biogeography Meetings, January 9, 2011. Heraklion,Crete, Greece.

(31) “Using phylogenies to study niche evolution” for symposium on traitevolution at the Willi Hennig Society meetings, June 2012, Riverside,California.

(32) "Niche conservatism, ecology, and speciation" plenary lecture forsymposium "The role of behaviour in non-adaptive and non-ecologicalspeciation" at the International Behavioral Ecology Congress, August2012, Lund, Sweden.

(33) "Speciation, niche conservatism, and niche divergence in theory and inamphibians" for symposium "Speciation in amphibians and reptiles:from patterns to processes and mechanisms" at the 7th World Congressof Herpetology, August 2012, Vancouver, British Colombia.

(34) "Understanding biodiversity patterns by integrating phylogenetic andecological information" plenary lecture for symposium "Mathematics foran evolving biodiversity", September 2013, Montreal, Canada.

(35) "A twisted view of ecology and speciation" for American Society ofNaturalists symposium "Beyond reproductive isolation:microevolutionary controls on macroevolutionary speciation dynamics",June 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina.


(36) “Why morphology-based phylogenies (sometimes) lie, and why it stillmatters” for symposium on heterochrony and phylogenetics at WilliHennig Society meeting, July 2014, Trento, Italy.

(37) “Phylogenies, niche evolution, and the origin and future of tropicalbiodiversity” for symposium “The origin and future of tropicalbiodiversity: an evolutionary perspective”for the 51st meeting of theAssociation for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Cairns, Australia,July 2014.

(38) “The phylogeny of lizard families: resolving relationships, overcomingcontroversy” for symposium “Reproductive biology and phylogeny oflizards” for the Joint Meeting of Herpetologists and Ichthyologists,August 2014, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

(39) “The ecology of speciation: a phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective”Keynote lecture for symposium “Genomics of the speciationcontinuum” in Fribourg, Switzerland, September 2014.

(40) “Using phylogeny to understand the origins and future of biodiversity”for symposium “Frontiers in integrative organismal biology:herpetological horizons” at the annual meetings of the Society for theStudy of Amphibians and Reptiles in Lawrence, Kansas, July 2015.

(41) “Niche evolution versus climate change in diversity hotspots: phylogeneticanalyses in plants and animals” for symposium “Ecological implicationsof endemism hotspots as climate change refugia” at the annual meetingof the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, Maryland, August2015.

(42) “Lizard diversity: origins and future” plenary lecture for “9th Symposiumon the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin” in Limassol, Cyprus, June2016.

(43) “Macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of snake-like reptiles” forsymposium “How lizards turn into snakes: Combining fossils,phylogeny, function, genetics, development, morphology, and ecology”at 8th World Congress of Herpetology, in Hangzhou, China, August2016.

(44) “Using phylogenetic databases for large-scale herpetological research” forsymposium “Herpetological information in a networked world” at 8th

World Congress of Herpetology, in Hangzhou, China, August 2016.

(45) “Climate change and the biogeography of a montane lizard in Arizona’sSky islands” for symposium on the biogeography of southwesternNorth America at Interional Biogeography Meetings, Tucson, Arizona,January 2017.


(46) “The evolution of biodiversity patterns” plenary lecture for the VImeetings of the Colombian Assocation of Evolutionary Biology, Cali,Colombia, August 2017.

(47) “What to do with the new Tree of Life?” at the 59th PhylogeneticSymposium “Phylogeny in the post-genomic era” in Berlin, Germany,19 November 2017.

Publications:

(1) Wiens, J. J. 1989. Ontogeny of the skeleton of Spea bombifrons (Anura:Pelobatidae). Journal of Morphology 202:29–51.

(2) Wiens, J. J., and T. A. Titus. 1991. A phylogenetic analysis of Spea (Anura:Pelobatidae). Herpetologica 47:21–28.

(3) Wiens, J. J., and L. A. Coloma. 1992. A new species of the Eleutherodactylusmyersi (Anura: Leptodactylidae) assembly from Ecuador. Journal ofHerpetology 26:196–207.

(4) Duellman, W. E., and J. J. Wiens. 1992. The status of the hylid frog genusOlolygon and the recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830. Occasional Papers ofthe Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 151:1–23.

(5) Duellman, W. E., and J. J. Wiens. 1993. Hylid frogs of the genus ScinaxWagler 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Occasional Papers of theMuseum of Natural History University of Kansas 153:1–57.

(6) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards andmonophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993:287–299.

(7) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Systematics of the leptodactylid frog genus Telmatobius inthe Andes of northern Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of NaturalHistory University of Kansas 161:1–76.

(8) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Phylogenetic systematics of the tree lizards (genusUrosaurus). Herpetologica 49:399–420.

(9) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Review of "Herpetology" by George Zug. SystematicBiology 42:592–596.

(10) Chippindale, P. T., and J. J. Wiens. 1994. Weighting, partitioning, andcombining characters in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology43:278–287 (order of authorship alphabetical).

(11) Wiens, J. J., and P. T. Chippindale. 1994. Combining and weightingcharacters and the prior agreement approach revisited. SystematicBiology 43:564–566.


(12) Wiens, J. J. 1995. Polymorphic characters in phylogenetic systematics.Systematic Biology 44:482–500.

(13) Wiens, J. J., and T. W. Reeder. 1995. Combining data sets with differentnumbers of taxa for phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 44:548–558.

(14) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Morris. 1996. Character definitions, sexual selection,and the evolution of swordtails. American Naturalist 147:866–869.

(15) Wiens, J. J., and D. M. Hillis. 1996. Accuracy of parsimony analysis usingmorphological data: A reappraisal. Systematic Botany 21:237–243.

(16) Reeder, T. W., and J. J. Wiens. 1996. Evolution of the lizard familyPhrynosomatidae as inferred from diverse types of data. HerpetologicalMonographs 10:43–84.

(17) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 1997. Accuracy of phylogenetic analysisincluding and excluding polymorphic characters. Systematic Biology46:332–345.

(18) Wiens, J. J. 1997. Review of “Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity inEvolution.” Copeia 1997:472–474.

(19) Wiens, J. J., and T. W. Reeder. 1997. Phylogeny of the spiny lizards(Sceloporus) based on molecular and morphological evidence.Herpetological Monographs 11:1–101.

**Cover article

(20) Pianka, E. R., D. M. Hillis, M. R. Ryan, D. C. Cannatella, and J. J. Wiens.1998. Teaching herpetology. Herpetologica 54:S3–S5.

(21) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 1998. Phylogenetic analysis andintraspecific variation: Performance of parsimony, likelihood, anddistance methods. Systematic Biology 47:228–253.

(22) Wiens, J. J. 1998. The accuracy of methods for coding and samplinghigher-level taxa for phylogenetic analysis: A simulation study.Systematic Biology 47:381–397.

(23) Wiens, J. J. 1998. Testing phylogenetic methods with tree-congruence:Phylogenetic analysis of polymorphic morphological characters inphrynosomatid lizards. Systematic Biology 47:411–428.

(24) Wiens, J. J. 1998. Combining data sets with different phylogenetichistories. Systematic Biology 47:568–581.

(25) Wiens, J. J. 1998. Does adding characters with missing data increase ordecrease phylogenetic accuracy? Systematic Biology 47:625–640.


(26) Wiens, J. J. 1999. Phylogenetic evidence for multiple losses of a sexuallyselected character in phrynosomatid lizards. Proceedings of the RoyalSociety of London, Series B 266:1529–1535.

(27) Wiens, J. J. 1999. Polymorphism in systematics and comparative biology.Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30:327–362.

(28) Wiens, J. J., T. W. Reeder, and A. Nieto Montes de Oca. 1999. Molecularphylogenetics and evolution of sexual dichromatism among populationsof the Yarrow’s spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii ). Evolution 53:1884–1897.

(29) Wiens, J. J., and B. D. Hollingsworth. 2000. War of the iguanas: conflictingmolecular and morphological phylogenies and long-branch attraction iniguanid lizards. Systematic Biology 49:143–159.

(30) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 2000. Species delimitation in systematics:inferring diagnostic differences between species. Proceedings of the RoyalSociety of London, Series B 267:631–636.

**Featured in "Editor's Choice" in Science (Vol. 288; p. 577)

(31) Wiens, J. J. 2000. Decoupled evolution of display morphology and displaybehaviour in phrynosomatid lizards. Biological Journal of the LinneanSociety 70:597–612.

(32) Wiens, J. J. 2000. Reconstructing phylogenies from allozyme data: testingmethod performance with congruence. Biological Journal of the LinneanSociety 70:613–632.

(33) Chippindale, P. T., A. H. Price, J. J. Wiens, and D. M. Hillis. 2000.Phylogenetic relationships and systematic revision of central Texashemidactyliine plethodontid salamanders. Herpetological Monographs14:1–80.

(34) Wiens, J. J. (Editor). 2000. Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data.Smithsonian Institution Press, Comparative Evolutionary Biology Series.

(35) Hillis, D. M., and J. J. Wiens. 2000. Molecular versus morphologicalsystematics: Conflicts, artifacts, and misconceptions. Pages 1–19 inPhylogenetic analysis of morphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.).Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

(36) Poe, S., and J. J. Wiens. 2000. Character selection and the methodology ofmorphological phylogenetics. Pages 20–36 in Phylogenetic analysis ofmorphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press,Washington, D.C.

(37) Wiens, J. J. 2000. Coding morphological variation for phylogeneticanalysis: polymorphism and interspecific variation in higher taxa. Pages


115–145 in Phylogenetic analysis of morphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.).Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

(38) Wiens, J. J. 2001. Widespread loss of sexually-selected traits: how thepeacock lost its spots. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:517–523.

**Cover article

(39) Wiens, J. J. 2001. Shape shifters. Time after time, lizards have droppedtheir legs in favor of a snakelike body form. Natural History 110:70–75.

(40) Wiens, J. J. 2001. Character analysis in morphological phylogenetics:problems and solutions. Systematic Biology 50:689–699.

(41) Wiens, J. J., and J. L. Slingluff. 2001. How lizards turn into snakes: aphylogenetic analysis of body-form evolution in anguid lizards.Evolution 55:2303–2318.

(42) Wiens, J. J., and T. L. Penkrot. 2002. Delimiting species based on DNA andmorphological variation and discordant species limits in spiny lizards(Sceloporus). Systematic Biology 51:69–91.

(43) Wiens, J. J. 2002. Review of “Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians”edited by William E. Duellman. Systematic Biology 51:980–981.

(44) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2003. Explaining species richness fromcontinents to communities: the time-for-speciation effect in emydidturtles. American Naturalist 161:112–128.

(45) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Morris. 2003. Review of "Sexual Selections" byMarlene Zuk. Quarterly Review of Biology 78:127.

(46) Wiens, J. J. 2003. Incomplete taxa, incomplete characters, andphylogenetic accuracy: what is the missing data problem? Journal ofVertebrate Paleontology 23:297–310.

**Invited symposium paper

(47) Wiens, J. J., P. T. Chippindale, and D. M. Hillis. 2003. When arephylogenetic analyses misled by convergence? A case study in Texascave salamanders. Systematic Biology 52:501–514.

**Cover article

(48) Wiens, J. J. 2003. Missing data, incomplete taxa, and phylogeneticaccuracy. Systematic Biology 52:528–538.

(49) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2003. Ecological diversification andphylogeny of emydid turtles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society79:577–610.


(50) Wiens, J. J., and R. E. Etheridge. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships ofhoplocercid lizards: coding and combining meristic, morphometric, andpolymorphic data using step matrices. Herpetologica 59:375–398.

(51) Wiens, J. J. 2004. Speciation and ecology revisited: phylogenetic nicheconservatism and the origin of species. Evolution 58:193–197.

(52) Wiens, J. J. 2004. What is speciation and how should we study it?American Naturalist 163:914–923.

**”Recommended” article in Evolution, Faculty of 1000

(53) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2004. Convergence, divergence, andhomogenization in the ecological structure of emydid turtlecommunities: the effects of phylogeny and dispersal. AmericanNaturalist 64:244–254.

(54) Wiens, J. J. 2004. The role of morphological data in phylogenyreconstruction. Systematic Biology 53:653–661.

(55) Wiens, J. J. 2004. Development and evolution of body form and limbreduction in squamate reptiles: a response to Sanger and Gibson-Brown.Evolution 58:2107–2108.

(56) Wiens, J. J., and M. J. Donoghue. 2004. Historical biogeography, ecology,and species richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:639–644.

**Featured on cover

(57) Espinoza, R. E., J. J. Wiens, and C. R. Tracy. 2004. Recurrent evolution ofherbivory in small, cold-climate lizards: breaking the ecophysiologicalrules of reptilian herbivory. Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences, U.S.A. 101:16819–16824.

**Featured on cover, with accompanying commentary article by Laurie Vitt(“Shifting paradigms: Herbivory and body size in lizards,” PNAS,101:16713–16714)

**”Must Read”article in Ecology, Faculty of 1000

(58) Chippindale, P. T., R. M. Bonett, A. S. Baldwin, and J. J. Wiens. 2004.Phylogenetic evidence for a major reversal in life history evolution inplethodontid salamanders. Evolution 58:2809–2822.

(59) Wiens, J. J., R. M. Bonett, and P. T. Chippindale. 2005. Ontogenydiscombobulates phylogeny: paedomorphosis and higher-levelsalamander phylogeny. Systematic Biology 54:91–110.

(60) Chippindale, P. T., and J. J. Wiens. 2005. Re-evolution of the larval stagein the plethodontid salamander genus Desmognathus. HerpetologicalReview 36:113–117.


(61) Wiens, J. J. and C. H. Graham. 2005. Niche conservatism: integratingevolution, ecology, and conservation biology. Annual Review of Ecology,Evolution, and Systematics 36:519–539.

(62) Wiens, J. J. 2005. Can incomplete taxa rescue phylogenetic analyses fromlong-branch attraction? Systematic Biology 54:731–742.

(63) Wiens, J. J., J. W. Fetzner, C. L. Parkinson, and T. W. Reeder. 2005. Hylidfrog phylogeny and sampling strategies for speciose clades. SystematicBiology 54:778–807.

(64) Smith, S. A., P. R. Stephens, and J. J. Wiens. 2005. Replicate patterns ofspecies richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctictreefrogs. Evolution 59:2433–2450.

(65) Wiens, J. J., M. C. Brandley, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Why does a traitevolve multiple times within a clade? Repeated evolution of snake-likebody form in squamate reptiles. Evolution 61:123–141.

(66) Wiens, J. J. 2006. Missing data and the design of phylogenetic analyses.Journal of Biomedical Informatics 39:34–42.

**Invited review

(67) Wiens, J. J., C. H. Graham, D. S. Moen, S. A. Smith, and T. W. Reeder.2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversitygradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropicaldiversity. American Naturalist 168:579-596.

**Featured in “Science News” October 21, 2006**Featured in “EurekAlert!” November 1, 2006**Featured article for November 2006 on the American Naturalist web-site**Featured in “ScienceDaily” November 6, 2006**Recommended article in Ecology, Faculty of 1000, November 9, 2006**Featured (with illustration) in textbook “Evolution” by D. J. Futuyma (2009)

(68) Wiens, J. J. 2006. Molecular evolution for the masses (review of “Themaking of the fittest” by Sean Carroll). Bioscience 56:1014–1015.

(69) Wiens, J. J., T. N. Engstrom, and P. T. Chippindale. 2006. Rapiddiversification, incomplete isolation, and the “speciation clock” in NorthAmerican salamanders (genus Plethodon): testing the hybrid swarmhypothesis of rapid radiation. Evolution 60:2585–2603.

(70) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2006. Does niche conservatism drivespeciation? A case study in North American salamanders. Evolution60:2604–2621.

**Featured (with illustration) in textbook “Evolution” by D. J. Futuyma (2009)

(71) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Review of “The amphibian tree of life” by Frost et al.Quarterly Review of Biology 82:55–56.


(72) Wiens, J. J., G. Parra-Olea, M. Garcia-Paris, and D. B. Wake. 2007.Phylogenetic history underlies elevational patterns of biodiversity intropical salamanders. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London274:919–928.

**Cover article

(73) Smith, S. A., A. Nieto Montes de Oca, T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2007.A phylogenetic perspective on elevational species richness patterns inMiddle American treefrogs: why so few species in lowland tropicalrainforests? Evolution 61:1188–1207.

(74) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Pissing away the eons. Review of “Phylogeny andconservation” by Purvis et al. 2005. Evolution 61:1788–1790.

(75) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Global patterns of species richness and diversification inamphibians. American Naturalist 170:S86–S106.

(76) Wiens, J. J., C. Kuczynski, W. E. Duellman, and T. W. Reeder. 2007. Lossand re-evolution of complex life cycles in marsupial frogs: can ancestraltrait reconstruction mislead? Evolution 61:1886–1899.

**Cover article.

(77) Smith, S. A., S. Arif, A. Nieto Montes de Oca, and J. J. Wiens. 2007. Aphylogenetic hotspot for evolutionary novelty in Middle Americantreefrogs. Evolution 61:2075–2085.

(78) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2007. Climatic zonation drives latitudinalvariation in speciation mechanisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society ofLondon 274:2995–3003.

(79) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Species delimitation: new approaches for discoveringdiversity. Systematic Biology 56:875–878.

(80) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Testing for evolutionary trade-offsin a phylogenetic context: ecological diversification and locomotorperformance in emydid turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:77–87.

(81) Kozak, K. H., C. H. Graham, and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Integrating GIS datainto evolutionary studies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:141–148.

**Invited review**Featured on cover

(82) Townsend, T. M., E. R. Alegre, S. T. Kelley, J. J. Wiens, and T. W. Reeder.2008. Rapid development of multiple nuclear loci for phylogeneticanalysis using genomic resources. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution47:129–142


(83) Wiens, J. J. 2008. Systematics and herpetology in the age of genomics.Bioscience 58:297–307.

**Invited review**Cover article

(84) Gomez-Mestre, I., J. J. Wiens, and K. M. Warkentin. 2008. Evolution ofadaptive plasticity: risk-sensitive hatching in Neotropical leaf-breedingtreefrogs (Agalychnis: Hylidae). Ecological Monographs 78:205–224.

(85) Wiens, J. J., and D. S. Moen. 2008. Missing data and the accuracy ofBayesian phylogenetics. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46:307–314.

**Invited symposium paper**Award from journal for “Outstanding Paper” for 2008–2013

(86) Wiens, J. J., and J. T. Hoverman. 2008. Digit reduction, body size, andpaedomorphosis in salamanders. Evolution and Development 10:449–463.

(87) Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, S. A. Smith, D. Mulcahy, J. W. Sites, Jr., T. M.Townsend, and T. W. Reeder. 2008. Branch lengths, support, andcongruence: testing the phylogenomic approach with 20 nuclear loci insnakes. Systematic Biology 57:420–431.

(88) Brandley, M. C., J. P. Huelsenbeck, and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Rates andpatterns in the evolution of snake-like body form in squamate reptiles:evidence for repeated re-evolution of lost digits and long-termpersistence of intermediate body forms. Evolution 62:2042–2064.

(89) Wiens, J. J. 2008. Commentary on Losos (2008): niche conservatism déjàvu. Ecology Letters 11:1004–1005.

(90) Moen, D. S., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Phylogenetic evidence forcompetitively-driven divergence: body-size evolution in Caribbeantreefrogs (Hylidae: Osteopilus). Evolution 63:195–214.

(91) Wiens, J. J. 2009. Estimating rates and patterns of morphologicalevolution from phylogenies: lessons in limb lability from AustralianLerista lizards. Journal of Biology 8:19.

**Invited review

(92) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Evolution of sexual sizedimorphisms in emydid turtles: ecological dimorphism, Rensch's rule,and sympatric divergence. Evolution 63:910–925.

(93) Wiens, J. J., J. Sukumaran, R. A. Pyron, and R. M. Brown. 2009.Evolutionary and biogeographic origins of high tropical diversity in OldWorld frogs (Ranidae). Evolution 63:1217–1231.

**”Recommended” article in Ecology, Faculty of 1000**Featured on cover


(94) Kozak, K. H., R. W. Mendyk, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Can paralleldiversification occur in sympatry? Repeated patterns of body-sizeevolution in co-existing clades of North American salamanders.Evolution 63:1769–1784.

(95) Wiens, J. J. 2009. Paleontology, genomics, and combined-dataphylogenetics: can molecular data improve phylogeny estimation forfossil taxa? Systematic Biology 58:87–99.

(96) Adams, D. C., C. M. Berns, K.H. Kozak, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Are rates ofspecies diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276:2729–2738.

(97) Moen, D. S., S. A. Smith, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Community assemblythrough evolutionary diversification and dispersal in Middle Americantreefrogs. Evolution 63:3228–3247.

(98) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Bridging the gap betweenbiogeography and community ecology: niche conservatism andcommunity structure in emydid turtles. Molecular Ecology 65:246–259.

(99) Hua, X., C. Fu, J. Li, A. Nieto-Montes de Oca, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Arevised phylogeny of Holarctic treefrogs (genus Hyla) based on nuclearand mitochondrial DNA sequences. Herpetologica 65:246–259.

(100) Wiens, J. J., and M. C. Brandley. 2009. The evolution of limblessness. TheGrzimek Encyclopedia of Animal Evolution.

(101) Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, S. Arif, and T. W. Reeder. 2010.Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards based on nuclearand mitochondrial data, and a revised phylogeny for Sceloporus.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:150–161.

(102) Hua, X., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Latitutudinal variation in speciationmechanisms in frogs. Evolution 64:429–443.

(103) Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, and P. R. Stephens. 2010. Discordantmitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles:implications for speciation and conservation. Biological Journal of theLinnean Society 99:445–461.

(104) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Niche conservatism drives elevationaldiversity patterns in Appalachian salamanders. American Naturalist176:40–54.

**”Recommended” article in Ecology, Faculty of 1000**Winner of the 2011 President's Award by the American Society of Naturalists

(for an outstanding paper published in the American Naturalist in 2010).


(105) Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski,X. Hua, and D. S. Moen. 2010. An expandedphylogeny of treefrogs (Hylidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrialsequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:871–882.

(106) Buckley, L. B., T. J. Davies, D. D. Ackerly, N. J. B. Kraft, S. P. Harrison, B.L. Anacker, H. V. Cornell, E. I. Damschen, J. A. Grytnes, B. A. Hawkins,C. M. McCain, P. R. Stephens, and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Phylogeny, nicheconservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 277:2131–2138.

(107) Wiens, J. J., D. D. Ackerly, A. P. Allen, B. L. Anacker, L. B. Buckley, H. V.Cornell, E. I. Damschen, T. J. Davies, J. A. Grytnes, S. P. Harrison, B. A.Hawkins, R. D. Holt, C. M. McCain, and P. R. Stephens. 2010. Nicheconservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservationbiology. Ecology Letters 13:1310–1324.

**Invited review

(108) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Accelerated rates of climatic nicheevolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters13:1378–1389.

(109) Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski,T. Townsend, T. W. Reeder, D. G. Mulcahy,and J. W. Sites, Jr. 2010. Combining phylogenomics and fossils in higherlevel squamate reptile phylogeny: molecular data change the placementof fossil taxa. Systematic Biology 59:674–688.

(110) Pyron, R. A., F. T. Burbrink, G. R. Colli, A. Nieto Montes de Oca, L. J. Vitt,C. A. Kuczynski, and J. J. Wiens. 2011. The phylogeny of advancedsnakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily andcomparison of support methods for likelihood trees. MolecularPhylogenetics and Evolution 58:329–342.

(111) Wiens, J. J. 2011. Re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs aftermore than 200 million years, and re-evaluating of Dollo’s law. Evolution65:1283–1296.

**Featured in The New York Times, BBC News, National Geographic News,EarthSky, The Scientist (under Naturally Selected, “Biology’s Personal Best”), andin news outlets from 23 countries including the U.S., U.K., Turkey, Iran, Russia,Netherlands, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Colombia, Cuba,Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Thailand

(112) Wiens, J. J., R. A. Pyron, and D. S. Moen. 2011. Phylogenetic origins oflocal-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonianmegadiversity. Ecology Letters 14:643–652.

**Editor's Choice in Science (May 2011)**Featured on msnbc.com, TODAY.com, BBC news, Yahoo News, LiveScience,ScienceDaily, Top Science News, and others, with interviews on EarthSky andOurAmazingPlanet


(113) Wiens, J. J. 2011. The causes of species richness patterns across space,time, and clades and the role of “ecological limits.” Quarterly Review ofBiology 86:75–96.

(114) Wiens, J. J., and M. C. Morrill. 2011. Missing data in phylogeneticanalysis: reconciling results from simulations and empirical data.Systematic Biology 60:719–731.

(115) Wiens, J. J. 2011. The niche, biogeography, and species interactions.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B366:2336–2350.

***Invited paper for symposium on "Ecology and Biogeography"

(116) Wiens, J. J., M. Sparreboom, and J. W. Arntzen. 2011. Crest evolution innewts: implications for reconstruction methods, sexual selection,phenotypic plasticity, and the origin of novelties. Journal of EvolutionaryBiology 24:2073–2086.

***Cover article.

(117) Townsend, T., D. G. Mulcahy, J. W. Sites Jr., C. A. Kuczynski, J. J. Wiens,and T. W. Reeder. 2011. Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-treeapproaches for an ancient, rapid radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics andEvolution 61:363–380.

(118) Pyron, R. A., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibiaincluding over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs,salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution61:543–583.

(119) Fisher-Reid, M. C., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. What are the consequences ofcombining nuclear and mitochondrial data for phylogenetic analysis?Lessons from Plethodon salamanders and 13 other vertebrate clades.BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:300

***Highly accessed

(120) Sites, J. W., Jr., T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2011. Phylogenetic insightson evolutionary novelties in lizards and snakes: sex, birth, bodies,niches, and venom. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics42:227–244.

**Invited review

(121) Carrete-Vega, G., and J. J. Wiens*. 2012. Why are there so few fish in thesea? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 279:2323–2329. (publishedon line 8 Feb.)

*Corresponding author***Featured as “Research Highlight” in Nature, 16 Feb. 2012***Phone interviews on CBS News Radio, Deutschlandfunk Radio (Germany),EarthSky


***Featured on many news web sites including CBS News, msnbc.com,EarthSky, LiveScience, NewScientist, DailyMail, Huffington Post, World NewsAustralia, TheNewsWorld, WebIndia123, TopNews (India), SkyNews (Australia),NewsTrackIndia, LeFigaro (France), Spiegel Online (Germany), News Pano,PhysOrg.com, WorldNews.com, Yahoo News, Dallas Morning News, AustralianGeographic, United Press International, Press Association, OnePakistan,IndiaVision, Zanost.com (Croatia), Dalje.com (Croatia), JornalCiencia (Brazil),ExpressoAmbiental (Brazil), TechMoney (Poland), Polska Agencja Prasowa(Poland), Technologijos (Lithuania), aePiot (Romania), Seasons (France), Stop(Hungary), Nu (Netherlands), News Center (China), China Daily (China),Mysterious Earth (China), and others for a total of 17 countries (U.S., U.K.,Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Netherlands, Croatia, Lithuania,Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Brazil, China, India, Pakistan)

(122) Blankers, T., D. C. Adams, and J. J. Wiens*. 2012. Ecological radiation withlimited morphological diversification in salamanders. Journal ofEvolutionary Biology 25:634–646.

*Corresponding author

(123) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Phylogeny, ecology, and the origins ofclimate-richness relationships. Ecology 93:S167–S181.

**Invited paper for special issue on phylogeny and ecology.

(124) Wiens, J.J., and J. Tiu. 2012. Highly incomplete taxa can rescuephylogenetic analyses from the negative impacts of limited taxonsampling. PLoS One 7:42925.

(125) Gomez-Mestre, I., R. A. Pyron, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Phylogeneticanalyses reveal unexpected patterns in the evolution of reproductivemodes in frogs. Evolution 66:3687–3700.

***Featured on cover***Featured in ScienceDaily, daily-news.eu, innovations report (Germany), Sci

Guru-Science News, TendenciasCientificas (Spain), and other websites

(126) Fisher-Reid, M.C., K. H. Kozak, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. How is the rate ofclimatic-niche evolution related to climatic-niche breadth? Evolution66:3836–3851.

(127) Wiens, J. J., C. R. Hutter, D. G. Mulcahy, B. P. Noonan, T. M. Townsend, J.W. Sites, Jr., and T. W. Reeder. 2012. Resolving the phylogeny of lizardsand snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species.Biology Letters 6:1043–1046. (published on-line 18 September 2012)

***Featured in ScienceNow, ScienceDaily, EarthTimes, United PressInternational (upi.com), PhysOrg.com, and others

***Featured in Science magazine (14 Dec. 2012)

(128) Wiens, J.J. 2012. Why biogeography matters: historical biogeographyversus phylogeography and community phylogenetics for inferring


evolutionary and ecological processes. Frontiers of Biogeography(published online).

***Invited perspectives piece

(129) Mulcahy, D. G., B. P. Noonan, T. Moss, T. M. Townsend, T. W. Reeder, J.W. Sites, Jr., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Estimating divergence dates andevaluating dating methods using phylogenomic and mitochondrial datain squamate reptiles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65:974–991.

(130) Cahill, A.E., M. E. Aiello-Lammens, M. C. Fisher-Reid, X. Hua, C. J.Karanewsky, H. Y. Ryu, G. C. Sbeglia, F. Spagnolo, J. B. Waldron, O.Warsi, and J. J. Wiens*. 2013. How does climate change cause extinction?Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 280: 20121890.

*Corresponding author***Cover article***Most cited paper published in PRSL in 2013***Featured on many news websites (including The Guardian (UK), DailyMail(UK), MSN News (UK), YahooNews (UK), Business Insider), science websites(including ScienceDaily, physorg, Royal Society Website, io9, EarthTimes, andSciTechDaily), and environmental websites and blogs (including ConservationMagazine and SimpleClimate)

(131) Blankers, T., T. M. Townsend, K. Pepe, T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2013.Contrasting global-scale evolutionary radiations: phylogeny,diversification, and morphological evolution in the major clades ofiguanian lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108:127–143.


(132) Quintero, I., and J. J. Wiens*. 2013. What determines the climatic nichewidth of species? The role of spatial and temporal climatic variation inthree vertebrate clades. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:422–432.


(133) Wiens, J. J., K. H. Kozak, and N. Silva. 2013. Diversity and niche evolutionalong aridity gradients in North American lizards (Phrynosomatidae).Evolution 67:1715–1728.

(134) Hua, X., and J. J. Wiens. 2013. How does climate influence speciation?American Naturalist 182:1–12.

(135) Pyron, R.A., F. T. Burbrink, and J. J. Wiens. 2013. A phylogeny andrevised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards andsnakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:93

(136) Guerrero, P. C., M. Rosas, M. T. K. Arroyo, and J. J. Wiens. 2013.Evolutionary lag times and recent origin of the biota of an ancient desert(Atacama-Sechura). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.110:11469–11474.

***Featured in newspaper “El Mercurio” (Chile) and on website “Climate News


Network” (UK)

(137) Quintero, I., and J. J. Wiens*. 2013. Rates of projected climate changedramatically exceed past rates of climatic-niche evolution amongvertebrate species. Ecology Letters 16:1095–1103.

*Corresponding author**Featured as “Research Highlight” in Nature Climate Change**TV interview: CNN-International (July 20, 2013)**Radio interview on: Minnesota Public Radio (July 31, 2013)**Interviews for: ScienceNOW, DiscoveryNews, MotherJones, UAnews,ArizonaDailyStar**Coverage on the web at many news, science, and environmental web sites,including: RollingStone (US), Huffington Post (US), The Guardian (UK), TheConversation (Australia), MotherJones (US), Examiner (UK), wired (UK),weather.com, ScienceNOW, DiscoveryNews, TheScientist, Science News,Smithsonian.com, futurity.org, Science Daily, upi.com, phys.org, io9,e!ScienceNews (Eureka), digitaljournal, dailytech.com, redorbit,natureworldnews, vr-zone, scitechdaily, silobreaker, worldnewsviews,newsvine, sciencenewsline, scinewsnetwork, inhabitat, ArsTechnica, policymic,OracleTalk, MotherNatureNetwork, envirobeat, thinkprogress, WorldNews.org,climateark, globalactionnow.org, earthaction, forests.org, molecularecologist,Kaleton, pollutionsolutions, insideclimatenews, televisa (Spanish), wiadmosci(Poland), Mongabay (Indonesia), Taipei Times (Taiwan), Cromo (Uruguay), ElOnce (Argentina), ZeeNews (India), TruthDive (India), YahooNews (India),sify.com (India), NewKerala (India), NeoFronteras, LaFlecha, Globedia, Taringa,diarioecologia (Spanish), acclimate, HypeScience (Portugese), Posta (Turkey),Vatan (Turkey), insanhaber (Turkey), Atlantico (France), Corriere (Italy),NotizarioItaliono (Italy), meteo (Italy), China Daily (China), Zimbabwe Star(Zimbabwe), Mail&Guardian (South Africa), SverigeRadio (Sweden), star.com(Toronto Star; Canada), stuff.org (New Zealand), uanews, ArizonaDailyStar

(138) Hutter, C. R., J. M. Guayasamin, and J. J. Wiens. 2013. Explaining Andeanmegadiversity: the evolutionary and ecological causes of glassfrogelevational richness patterns. Ecology Letters 16:1135–1144.

(139) Machac, A., D. Storch, and J. J. Wiens. 2013. Ecological causes ofdecelerating diversification in carnivoran mammals. Evolution67:2423–2433.

(140) Lambert, S. M., and J. J. Wiens. !2013. Evolution of viviparity: aphylogenetic test of the cold-climate hypothesis in phrynosomatidlizards. Evolution 67:2614–2630.

***Featured on ScienceNOW***Cover article

(141) Fisher-Reid, M. C., T. N. Engstrom, C. A. Kuczynski, P. R. Stephens, and J.J. Wiens. 2013. Parapatric divergence of sympatric morphs in asalamander: incipient speciation on Long Island? Molecular Ecology22:4681–4694.


(142) Pyron, R.A., and J. J. Wiens. 2013. Large-scale phylogenetic analysesreveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity. Proceedings of theRoyal Society of London 280: 20131622

(143) Moen, D., D. J. Irschick, and J. J. Wiens. 2013. Evolutionary conservatismand convergence both lead to striking similarity in ecology,morphology, and performance across continents in frogs. Proceedings ofthe Royal Society of London 280:20132156.

(144) Bonett, R., M. Steffen, S. Lambert, J. J. Wiens, and P. T. Chippindale. 2014.!Evolution of paedomorphosis in plethodontid salamanders: ecologicalcorrelates and re-evolution of metamorphosis. Evolution 68:466–482.

(145) Cahill, A.E., M. E. Aiello-Lammens, M. C. Fisher-Reid, X. Hua, C. J.Karanewsky, H. Y. Ryu, G. C. Sbeglia, F. Spagnolo, J. B. Waldron, and J.J. Wiens*. 2014. Causes of warm-edge range limits: systematic review,proximate factors and implications for climate change. Journal ofBiogeography 41:429–442.


(146) Zeng, C., I. Gomez-Mestre, and J. J. Wiens*. 2014. Evolution of rapiddevelopment in spadefoot toads is unrelated to arid environments. PLoSOne 9:e96673.


(147) Pinto-Sánchez, N. R., A. J. Crawford, and J. J. Wiens*. 2014. Usinghistorical biogeography to test for community saturation. Ecology Letters17:1077–1085.

*Corresponding author**Featured on cover

(148) Jiang, W., S.-Y. Chen, H. Wang, and J. J. Wiens. 2014. Should genes withmissing data be excluded from phylogenetic analyses? MolecularPhylogenetics and Evolution 80:308–318.

(149) Bonetti, M. F., and J. J. Wiens*. 2014. Evolution of climatic nichespecialization: a phylogenetic analysis in amphibians. Proceedings of theRoyal Society of London 281:2013229.


(150) Chejanovski, Z., and J. J. Wiens. 2014. Climatic niche breadth and speciesrichness in temperate treefrogs. Journal of Biogeography 10:1936–1946.

(151) Lambert, S. M., T. W. Reeder, and J. J. Wiens. 2015. When do species-treeand concatenated estimates disagree? An empirical analysis with higher-level scincid phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82:146–155.


(152) Reeder, T.W., T. M. Townsend, D. G. Mulcahy, B. P. Noonan, P. L. Wood,Jr., J. W. Sites, Jr. and J. J. Wiens*. 2015. Integrated analyses resolveconflicts over squamate reptile phylogeny and reveal unexpectedplacements for fossil taxa. PLoS One 10:e0118199.


(153) Qian, H., J. J. Wiens, J. Zhang, and Y. Zhang. 2015. !Evolutionary andecological causes of species richness patterns in North Americanangiosperm trees. Ecography 38:241–250

(154) Gomez-Rodriguez, C., A. Baselga, and J. J. Wiens. 2015. Is diversificationrate related to climatic niche width? Global Ecology and Biogeography24:383–395.

(155) Zheng, Y., and J. J. Wiens*. 2015. Do missing data influence the accuracyof divergence-time estimation with BEAST? Molecular Phylogenetics andEvolution 85:41–49.


(156) Fisher-Reid, M. C., and J. J. Wiens. 2015. Is geographic variation withinspecies related to macroevolutionary patterns between species? Journalof Evolutionary Biology 28:1502–1515.

(157) Wiens, J. J. 2015. Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity.Biology Letters 11:20150506.

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(158) Wiens, J. J., R. T. Lapoint, and N. K. Whiteman. 2015. Herbivory increasesdiversification across insect clades. Nature Communications 6:8370.

(159) Wiens, J. J. 2015. Faster diversification on land than sea helps explainglobal biodiversity patterns among habitats and animal phyla. EcologyLetters 18:1234–1241.

(160) Streicher, J. W., J. A. Schulte, and J. J. Wiens. 2016. How should genes andtaxa be sampled for phylogenomic analyses with missing data? Anempirical study in iguanian lizards. Systematic Biology 65:128–145.

(161) Moen, D. S., H. Morlon, and J. J. Wiens. 2016. Testing convergence versushistory: convergence dominates phenotypic evolution for over 150million years in frogs. Systematic Biology 65:146–160.

(162) Zheng, Y., and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. Combining phylogenomic andsupermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamatereptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4,162 species.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94:537–547.



(163) Streicher, J. W., and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. Phylogenomic analyses revealnovel relationships among snake families. Molecular Phylogenetics andEvolution 100:160–169.


(164) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. Testing the relationships betweendiversification, species richness, and trait evolution. Systematic Biology65:975–988.


(165) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. What explains patterns of speciesrichness?! The relative importance of climatic niche evolution,morphological evolution, and ecological limits in salamanders. Ecologyand Evolution 6:5940–5949.


(166) Scholl, J.P., and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. Diversification rates and speciesrichness across the Tree of Life. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London283: 20161335.

*Corresponding author**Featured in Nature’s “Research Highlights”

(167) Cang, F.A., A. A. Wilson, and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. Climate change isprojected to outpace rates of niche change in grasses. Biology Letters12:20160368.

*Corresponding author**Featured on news and science websites including BBC News (with interview),

MSN News (1 of 5 “Science Stories of the Week” U.S., South Africa), TheIndependent, Irish Examiner, New Zealand Herald, SBS (Australia),BreakingNews (Ireland), ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, NewScientist,phys.org, and others

(168) Jezkova, T., and J. J. Wiens*. 2016. Rates of change in climatic niches inplant and animal populations are much slower than projected climatechange. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 283:20162104.

*Corresponding author**Featured in Nature’s “Research Highlights”**Featured in on various news, science, and environmental websites, including

BBC News (with interview), MSN, The Independent (UK), Gizmodo(Australia, Brasil), ScienceWorldReport, MarketBusinessNews, ElCiudadano (Chile), CDNews (Taiwan), Baomoi (Vietnam), Skanaa(Indonesia), GontorNews (Indonesia), Epoch News (China), BCharts(Brasil), Dunya (Turkey), Umhuriyet (Turkey), Aktualne-Spravy(Slovakia), Webnovinsky (Slovakia), Chronmy Klimat (Poland), IranDaily, Pravo (Czech Republic)

(169) Wiens, J. J. 2016. Climate-related local extinctions are already widespreadamong plant and animal species. PLoS Biology 11, e2001104.

**Featured in Nature’s “Research Highlights”


**Recommended by Faculty1000 Prime**Featured in on various news, science, and environmental websites and

magazines, including interviews with Los Angeles Times, CBC News,BBC Focus Magazine, Popular Science, Pacific Standard Magazine, InsideClimate News, The Independent, Seeker.com, Mongabay, and reportedon at TIME, The Guardian (UK), National Geographic, Deutsche Welle(Germany), Science Daily, Phys.org, Iran Daily, El Ciudadano (Chile),AccuWeather, FoxNews

**Radio interview on Ireland’s “The Moncrief Show” on NewsTalk Radio**Radio interview on “The Show about Science”

(170) Jezkova, T., and J. J. Wiens*. 2017. What explains patterns ofdiversification and richness among animal phyla? American Naturalist189:201–212.

*Corresponding author**Featured on various science-related websites, including ScienceDaily,

futurity.org, phys.org, earth.com, scienmag, Astrobiology Magazine,ScienceSprings, Hail Science, latesttechnology, technology.org, Emag,The Exception, LifeSciencesWorld, GaiaNews (Italy)

**Featured on some news sites, including Express (UK), Pacific StandardMagazine (with interview), Novinky.cz (Czech Republic), Sozcu(Turkey)

**Radio interview on BYU News

(171) Wiens, J. J. 2017. What explains patterns of biodiversity across the Tree ofLife? BioEssays 39:1600128.

*Invited review

(172) Pontarp, M., and J. J. Wiens. 2017. The origin of species richness patternsalong environmental gradients: uniting explanations based on time,diversification rate, and carrying capacity. Journal of Biogeography44:722–735.

*Designated as “Special Paper”

(173) Moen, D. S., and J. J. Wiens. 2017. Microhabitat and climatic-niche changeexplain patterns of diversification among frog families. AmericanNaturalist 190:29–44.

(174) Miller, E. C., and J. J. Wiens. 2017. Extinction and time help drive themarine-terrestrial biodiversity gradient: is the ocean a deathtrap? EcologyLetters 20:911–921.

(175) Anderson, S. R., and J. J. Wiens*. 2017. Out of the dark: 350 million yearsof conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates.Evolution 71:1944–1959.



(176) Lin, L., and J. J. Wiens*. 2017. Comparing macroecological patterns acrosscontinents: evolution of climatic niche breadth in varanid lizards.Ecography 40:960–970.


(177) Larsen, B. B., E. C. Miller, M. K. Rhodes, and J. J. Wiens*. 2017. Inordinatefondness multiplied and redistributed: the number of species on Earthand the new Pie of Life. Quarterly Review of Biology 92:229–265.

*Corresponding author***Featured on some science news websites, including Science Newsline,

phys.org, Ensia.com

(178) Bars-Closel, M., T. Kohlsdorf, D. S. Moen, and J. J. Wiens*. 2017.Diversification rates are more strongly related to microhabitat thanclimate in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). Evolution 71:2243–2261.


(179) Streicher, J. W., and J. J. Wiens. 2017. Phylogenomic analyses of more than4,000 nuclear loci resolve the origin of snakes among lizard families.Biology Letters 13:20170393.

(180) Hutter, C. R., S. M. Lambert, and J. J. Wiens. 2017. Rapid diversificationand time explain amphibian species richness at different scales in theTropical Andes, Earth's most biodiverse hotspot. American Naturalist190:828–843.

(181) Meyer, A.L.S., and J. J. Wiens*. 2018. Estimating diversification rates forhigher taxa: BAMM can give problematic estimates of rates and rateshifts. Evolution 72:39–53.


(182) Streicher, J. W., E. C. Miller, P. C. Guerrero, C. Correa, J. C. Ortiz, A. J.Crawford, M. R. Pie, and J. J. Wiens. 2018. Evaluating methods forphylogenomic analyses, and a new phylogeny for a major frog clade(Hyloidea) based on 2,214 loci. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution119:128–143.

(183) Hanschen, E.R., M.D. Herron, J. J. Wiens, H. Nozaki, and R. E. Michod.2018. Repeated evolution and reversibility of self-fertilization in thevolvocine green algae. Evolution 72:386–398.

(184) Wiens, J. J. 2018. Patterns of local community composition are linked tolarge-scale diversification and dispersal of clades. American Naturalist191:184–196.

(185) Yan, H.-F., C.-Y. Zhang, A. A. Anderberg, G. Hao, X.-J. Ge, J. J. Wiens*.2018. What explains high plant richness in East Asia? Time anddiversification in the tribe Lysimachieae (Primulaceae). New Phytologist(in press).



(186) Hanschen, E.R., M.D. Herron, J. J. Wiens, P. J. Ferris, H. Nozaki, and R. E.Michod. 2018. Multicellularity drives the evolution of sexual traits.American Naturalist (in press).

(187) Miller, E. C., and J. J. Wiens. 2018. Demystifying the marine-terrestrialbiodiversity gradient: Response to Vermeij et al. Ecology Letters (inpress).

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