Curriculum Vitae John J. Wiens - Stony Brook University

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Curriculum Vitae
John J. Wiens
Present address:
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245
e-mail: wiensj@life.bio.sunysb.edu
Phone: 631-632-1101
FAX: 631-632-7626
Web-page: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/wienslab/homepage.html
Research interests:
(1) Phylogenetic approaches to evolution and ecology
(2) Systematic theory and methodology
(3) Phylogeny, evolution, and ecology of reptiles and amphibians
23 March 2012
Education:
The University of Kansas, B.S. in Systematics and Ecology, 1991
Senior Honors Thesis: “Phylogenetic position and relationships of the tree
lizards (genus Urosaurus)”
Supervisor: William E. Duellman
The 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:
2006–present, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution,
Stony Brook University
2003–2006, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony
Brook University
2001–2002, Associate Curator, Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie
Museum of Natural History
1995–2001, Assistant Curator, Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie
Museum of Natural History
2000–2002, Supervisor, Molecular Systematics Laboratory, CMNH
1996–2001, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pittsburgh
1991–95, 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 (Bio 348; Undergraduate; “Diversity and evolution of reptiles and
amphibians”), Stony Brook University, spring 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

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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 Brook
University, spring 2007
Graduate seminar on species richness, Stony Brook University, spring 2003
Phylogenetics, University of Pittsburgh, fall 1996, 2000
Herpetology, Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh,
summer 1996
Teaching Assistant for: Herpetology, Comparative Anatomy, Structure and
Function of Organisms (Univ. Texas; 1993-1994)
Graduate student direction:
Shea Lambert (Ph.D. program, Stony Brook, started fall 2011)
Antonin Machac (Ph.D. program, Stony Brook, started fall 2011)
Xia Hua (Ph.D. program, Stony Brook, started fall 2007)
Margaret-Caitlin Fisher-Reid (Ph.D. program, Stony Brook, started fall 2006)
Dan Moen (Ph.D. program, Stony Brook, started fall 2004)
Patrick Stephens (Ph.D., Stony Brook, 2005); currently Research Assistant
Professor at Univ. Georgia
Nathan 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)
Dissertation committee: Charles Welsh, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. 1997; Stony
Brook: Mireya Mayor, Ph.D. 2008 (Dept. Anthropology); Shu-Dan Yeh,
Ph.D. 2009 (Dept. Ecology & Evolution). External: James Austin, Queens
Univ., 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; Daniel
Scantlebury, Rochester Univ.
Postdoctoral direction:
Alex Pyron (2009–2010); currently Assistant Professor, George Washington
University
Windsor Aguirre (2007–2009); currently Assistant Professor, DePaul
University
Kenneth Kozak (June 2005–June 2007); currently Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota
Sarah Smith (January 2004–July 2006); currently living in Australia
Tag Engstrom (2003–2004); currently Assistant Professor, California State
University at Chico
James Fetzner (2001–2002); currently Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology,
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Robert Espinoza (2000–2001); currently Professor, California State University
at Northridge

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Christopher Parkinson (2000–2001); currently Associate Professor, University
of Central Florida
Visiting foreign students (partial list):
Pablo Guerrero (Chile; Fullbright Fellow)--2010
Serkan Gul (Turkey)--2010–2011
Thomas Blankers (Netherlands)--2011
Greta Carrete-Vega (Spain)--2011
Rubi Nelsi Meza-Lazaro (Mexico)--2011
Ignacio Quintero (Colombia)--2011
Field experience:
Approximately 12 months over various trips to Mexico, Ecuador, Peru,
Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Malaysia, India, and Taiwan. Extensive experience
in the U.S.
Professional service:
Editor-in-Chief, Quarterly Review of Biology, 2007–2010
Editor, Quarterly Review of Biology, 2006–2007, 2010–present
Editor (Editorial Board), Ecology Letters, 2009–present
Associate Editor, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011–present
Associate Editor, Ecography, 2007–2009
Associate Editor, American Naturalist, 2005–2009
Associate Editor, Evolution, 2001–2003
Associate Editor, Systematic Biology, 1996–2000
Associate Editor, Herpetologica, 1996–2000
Editorial Board, Systematic Biology, 1995–1996
Editorial Board, Copeia, 1999–2008
Editorial Board, Journal of Herpetology, 2001–present
Editorial Advisory Board, Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2005–present
Guest Editor, Proceedings Natl. Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. (2010)
Ad Hoc Associate Editor, Conservation Biology (2007)
Web-based journals:
Board of Moderators, PLoS Currents: Tree of Life, 2010–present
Editorial Board, Journal of Earth Science and Climate Change, 2010–present
Editorial Board, Open Journal of Genomics, 2011–present
Editorial Board, The International Journal of Ecology, 2008-present
Editorial Board, The Open Conservation Biology Journal, 2008-present
Editorial Board, The Open Medical Informatics Journal, 2008-present
Editorial Board, The Open Evolution Journal, 2007–present
Editorial Board, Research Letters in Ecology, 2007–2009
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)

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Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Integrative Biogeography, Spring 2007
Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on the Tree of Life, Spring 2008
Invited Participant, NCEAS workshop on “Niche conservatism and diversity
gradients,” Fall 2008, 2009
NSF Systematic Biology Panel, Fall 2000
NSF Biotic Surveys and Inventory Panel, Spring 2002
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, Spring 2003
NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology Panel, Fall 2004
NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology Panel, Fall 2005
NSF Systematic Biology Panel, Fall 2007
NSF Evolutionary Genetics Panel, Spring 2009
NSF Evolutionary Genetics Pre-proposal Panel, Spring 2012 (scheduled)
Declined (Evolutionary Genetics, Fall 2006; Evolutionary Ecology, Spring
2010)
Symposium organizer (“Morphological data in phylogenetic analysis: Recent
progress and unresolved problems”), Society of Systematic Biologists,
1996
Symposium organizer (“Species delimitation: new approaches for discovering
diversity”), Society of Systematic Biologists, 2006
Reviewer for 82 journals: Acta Biotheoretica, Acta Oecologica, American Naturalist,
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Animal Behavior, Annals of the
Carnegie Museum, Bioinformatics, Biological Conservation, Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society, Biological Reviews (Cambridge Philosophical Society),
Biology Letters, Bioscience, BMC Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Canadian
Journal of Zoology, Cladistics, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology,
Conservation Biology, Copeia, Current Biology, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology
Letters, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Frontiers in Zoology, Gene, Global
Ecology and Biogeography, Herpetologica, Herpetological Journal, Herpetological
Monographs, Herpetological Review, Human Mutation, Integrative and
Comparative Biology, International Journal of Zoology, Journal of Anatomy,
Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Ethology, Journal
of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Herpetology, 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 of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Journal for Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Marine Ecology
Progress Series, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and
Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Nature,
Nature Reviews Genetics, Oecologia, Oikos, The Open Conservation Biology
Journal, The Open Evolution Journal, Organisms Diversity and Evolution,
Paleobiology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, PNAS,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, PLoS Biology, PLoS One,
PLoS Currents: Tree of Life, Quarterly Review of Biology, Science, Scientific
Publications of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Systematic
Biology, Systematic Botany, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Tropical Zoology,
Zoologica Scripta, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, ZooKeys,
Zootaxa

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Reviewer for (book chapters): "Phylogenies and the Comparative Method in
Animal Behavior " (1996; E. Martins, ed.), "Biology of Plethodontid
Salamanders" (2000; Bruce et al., eds.), "Temperature Dependent Sex
Determination 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, Oxford
University 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 in
Environmental Biology, Paleontology, Biotic Survey and Inventory),
National Geographic Society, Austrian Science Fund, Comision Nacional
de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica de Chile, French National
Research Agency, German Research Foundation, Natural Environment
Research Council (United Kingdom), Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research, Portugese Foundation for Science and Technology,
Royal Society of New Zealand, Research Council of Norway, Swiss
National Science Foundation, U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation
Reviewer for (promotion/tenure): American Museum of Natural History, City
University of New York, National Museum of Natural History, Rochester
University, Rutgers University, San Diego State University, University of
California (Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside), University of Colorado,
University of Florida, University of Hawaii, University of Minnesota,
University of Nebraska
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 of
Systematic Biologists), 1999
Judge, Stoye Award (Best Student Paper Competition, American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists), 2000
Judge, Storer Award (Best Student Poster Competition, American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists), 2001
Judge, Award for Graduate Student Research, Society of Systematic Biologists,
2009
Judge, Rosemary Grant Award for Graduate Student Research, Society for the
Study of Evolution, 2010
Departmental Service
Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003–2004
Entering Students Advisory Committee (ESAC), 2004–2006
Departmental Colloquium Coordinator, 2006–2007, 2010–2011
Evolutionary Genomics Search Committee, 2006–2007
Departmental Retreat Coordinator, 2006–2007
Preliminary Exams Committee, 2007, 2010
Undergraduate Program Director, 2009–present
University Service
Student and Faculty Awards Committee, 2008

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Delegate for OTS (Organization for Tropical Studies), 2008–present
Undergraduate Biology Executive Committee, 2010–present
Professional organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
American Society of Naturalists
Herpetologist's League
Society of Systematic Biologists
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Society for the Study of Evolution
Grants:
National Science Foundation, 2011–2012, “Dissertation Research: The role of
history 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-cost
extension, 2009), “Collaborative Research: ATOL: The Deep Scaly Project:
Resolving squamate phylogeny using genomic and morphological
approaches” ($2,426,390 total; $645,700 to PI Wiens). Collaborative
project with fellow PIs Tod Reeder, Jack Sites, and Maureen Kearney (NSF
EF 0334923).
National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program, 2004-2005,
“Dissertation Research: A phylogenetic perspective on community
ecology and ecological diversification in emydid turtles” ($11,956; for
Patrick Stephens).
National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Program, 2002–2005,
"Collaborative Research: Phylogeny and montane species richness in
plethodontid 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 of
hylid frogs in Middle America” ($6,695).
Netting Fund Grant, Carnegie Museum, 2001, “A phylogenetic analysis of the
coevolution of ecology, morphology, and locomotor performance in
emydid turtles” ($5,879) with Patrick Stephens (PI).
National Geographic Society, 2000–2001, “The evolution of herbivory in
liolaemine lizards” ($9,400) co-PI with Robert Espinoza (PI).
Carnegie Institute, 2000–2002, "Establishing a molecular phylogenetics
laboratory 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 of Natural 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).

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Netting/O”Neill Fund Grants, Carnegie Museum, 1997-1998 “Speciation,
phylogeny, and gene flow in the spiny lizards of the Sceloporus jarrovi
complex 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:
BIOS Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. Nevada-Las Vegas, April 2009
Kirschner Lecture, Department of Zoology, Washington State University,
March 2008
American Society of Naturalists President's Award 2011 (for outstanding
paper published in the American Naturalist in 2010) for Kozak and Wiens
2010
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 Ecology, Faculty of 1000, July 2010 (Kozak and
Wiens 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 et
al. 2006; Am. Nat.)
“Must Read” paper in Ecology, Faculty of 1000, November 2004 (Espinoza et
al., 2004; PNAS)
“Recommended” paper in Evolution, Faculty of 1000, August 2004 (Wiens,
2004; Am. Nat.)
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 2011
Nominated for Treasurer, American Society of Naturalists, 2002
Honorable Mention for Ernst Mayr Award (Best Student Paper, Society of
Systematic Biologists), 1993.

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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, Ecuador
1992. 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 Alabama
1996. University of Texas at Arlington, Slippery Rock University, Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania
1997. Cornell University, San Diego State University
1998. George Washington University, Drexel University
1999. Ohio University, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(Department of Anatomical Sciences), University of Kansas (Natural
History Museum), University of Nevada at Reno (two talks), University
of 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 History
Museum), IV Congreso Argentino de Herpetologia (plenary lecture)
2002. University of California at Berkeley (two talks), State University of New
York at Stony Brook (Department of Ecology and Evolution), University
of Akron, University of Minnesota (Bell Museum), Brigham Young
University
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 York
Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
2006. Ohio State University, Center for Ecological Studies (Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India), Iowa State University, Harvard University, IX
Reunion Nacional de Herpetologia, Mexico (plenary lecture), Stony
Brook University (Living World public lecture series)
2007. University of Calgary, University of Rochester, University of Minnesota,
Biodiversity Research Center-Academica Sinica (Taiwan), Louisiana
State University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2008. University of Toronto-Mississauga, Washington State University
(Kirschner Lecture; annual student-invited speaker), University of
Montana, University of Oklahoma, Cornell University, American
Museum of Natural History (niche modeling group), Fudan University

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(Shanghai, China; 4 talks), University of Connecticut (annual studentinvited
speaker in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept.)
2009. University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BIOS Distinguished Lecturer; annual
student-invited speaker), Institute of Advanced Studies (Jerusalem,
Israel; Darwin 09 celebration), Instituto de Biologia (Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Darwin 09 celebration); IV Congresso
Brasileiro 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, Colombian
Herpetology Association meeting (Medellin); Universidad Nacional de
Colombia (Bogota)
2011. University of Toronto (Scarborough); City College of New York;
Keynote Lecture, Munich Graduate Programs for Evolution, Ecology
and Systematics Summer School, Chiemsee, Germany; Rice University;
Universidad de Chile; Opening Plenary Lecture, meeting of the Sociedad
de Biología de Chile (Puerto Varas, Chile); McGill University
2012. New York Botanical Garden; Washington University (annual studentinvited
speaker for Ecology and Evolution program); Fudan University
Advanced Ecology Lecture (scheduled); Columbia University
(scheduled)
Invited symposium papers:
(1) “Phylogeny of Sceloporus I: Analysis of diverse data sets.” Symposium
entitled “Sceloporus. A model system.” American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Herpetologist's League, Austin,
TX, May, 1993 (with Tod W. Reeder).
(2) “Phylogeny of Sceloporus II: Corroboration and classification.” Symposium
entitled “Sceloporus. A model system.” American Society of
Ichthyologists 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 and
unresolved 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.” Symposium
entitled “A tropical natural history” (in honor of William E. Duellman).

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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: A
symposium honoring the life work of Richard Etheridge.” American
Society 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 morphological phylogenetics."
Etheridge Symposium, State College, PA, June, 1999 (with Steve Poe).
(7) "War of the iguanas: Conflicting phylogenies, long-branch attraction, and
disparate rates of molecular and morphological evolution in iguanid
lizards." Etheridge Symposium, State College, PA, June, 1999 (wth Brad
Hollingsworth).
(8) "Effects of including incomplete taxa and characters on phylogenetic
analysis" Symposium on missing data and phylogeny reconstruction.
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Mexico City, October 2000.
(9) "Consensus, combination, and supertrees: integrating diverse data to
reconstruct evolutionary trees" DIMACS (Center for Discrete
Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) Tutorial and Workshop
on 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 phylogenetic
signal" ICSEB VI, Sixth International Congress of Systematic and
Evolutionary Biology, Patras, Greece, September, 2002.
(12) “Paedomorphosis and evolutionary morphology of salamanders”
Symposium entitled “Urodele phylogeny and reproduction” sponsored
by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Manaus, Brazil,
June 2003.
(13) “Hidden phylogenetic diversity of Neotropical treefrogs” Symposium
entitled “Diversity and ecology of Amazonian frogs” sponsored by the
Herpetologist’s League, Manaus, Brazil, June 2003.
(14) “The impact of missing data and incomplete taxa on phylogenetic
accuracy” Symposium entitled “Missing data in phylogenetic analysis”
for NSF-funded Deep Time workshop, held at George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., March 2004.

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(15) “A phylogenetic perspective on global biodiversity patterns” Symposim
entitled “Phylogeny and biodiversity science” held at the “First
DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: Integrating biodiversity for
human well-being” in Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2005 (with Michael
Donoghue).
(16) “Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in
amphibians” American Society of Naturalist’s Vice Presidential
Symposium entitled “Merging ecological and evolutionary approaches
to interpreting geographic gradients in species richness.” June 24, 2006,
Stony Brook, New York
(17) “Molecules, morphology, and species delimitation” Introduction for
symposium entitled “Species delimitation: new approaches for
discovering diversity” sponsored by the Society of Systematic Biologists.
June 23, 2006, Stony Brook, New York.
(18) “Paleontology, genomics, and combined-data phylogenetics: can molecular
data improve phylogeny estimation for fossil taxa?” Symposium entitled
“Bringing together the living and dead: integrating extant and fossil
biodiversity in evolutionary studies” sponsored by the Botanical Society
of America. August 1, 2006, Chico, California.
(19) “Combining phylogenies and GIS-based methods to study evolutionary
and ecological patterns” symposium “Evoluionary biology in the 21st
Century–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, Beijing
China.
(20) “Using GIS and biogeographic data to help understand character
evolution” colloquium “Integration of spatial and ecological data in
evolutionary 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 the
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. July 13, 2007, Saint
Louis, Missouri.
(22) “Why are there so many species of tropical bolitoglossine salamanders?”
Symposium honoring David Wake at Fifth Conference on Biology of
Plethodontid Salamanders, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico, August
4, 2007.
(23) “Global biodiversity patterns: evolutionary and ecological causes” Buffon
International Symposium “Natural history museums and institutions in
the 21 st century.” October 18, 2007, Paris, France.

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(24) “Phylogenetic perspectives on community assembly and the competitiondivergence-coexistence
conundrum” Symposium on “Phylogenetic
approaches to community ecology” sponsored by the Ecological Society
of 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: “Evolutionary
transitions of body shape in extant amphibians and reptiles: call for
integrative approaches” sponsored by the 6 th World Congress of
Herpetology, August 20, 2008. Manaus, Brazil.
(27) “The unexpected ecology of allopatric speciation” Keynote lecture for
symposium on “Mechanisms of speciation” at XXth International
Congress of Zoology, August 29, 2008. Paris, France.
(28) “Phylogenies and paradigm shifts in evolutionary biology” Keynote
lecture for symposium “Recent advances in macroevolutionary
approaches to evolutionary studies” European Society for Evolutionary
Biology, 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 ” for
symposium “Biogeography and ecology: two lenses in one telescope” at
Vth International Biogeography Meetings, January 9, 2011. Heraklion,
Crete, Greece.
(31) “Using phylogenies to study niche evolution” for symposium on Trait
evolution at the Willi Hennig Society meetings, June 2012 (scheduled),
Riverside, California.
(32) "Niche conservatism and speciation" for symposium "The role of
behaviour in non-adaptive and non-ecological speciation" at the
International Behavioral Ecology Congress, August 2012 (scheduled),
Lund, Sweden.
(33) "Speciation, niche conservatism, and niche divergence in theory and in
amphibians" for symposium "Speciation in amphibians and reptiles:
from patterns to processes and mechanisms" at the 7th World Congress
of Herpetology, August 2012 (scheduled), Vancouver, British Colombia.

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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 Eleutherodactylus
myersi (Anura: Leptodactylidae) assembly from Ecuador. Journal of
Herpetology 26:196–207.
(4) Duellman, W. E., and J. J. Wiens. 1992. The status of the hylid frog genus
Ololygon and the recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830. Occasional Papers of
the Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 151:1–23.
(5) Duellman, W. E., and J. J. Wiens. 1993. Hylid frogs of the genus Scinax
Wagler 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Occasional Papers of the
Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 153:1–57.
(6) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards and
monophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993:287–299.
(7) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Systematics of the leptodactylid frog genus Telmatobius in
the Andes of northern Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural
History University of Kansas 161:1–76.
(8) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Phylogenetic systematics of the tree lizards (genus
Urosaurus). Herpetologica 49:399–420.
(9) Wiens, J. J. 1993. Review of "Herpetology" by George Zug. Systematic
Biology 42:592–596.
(10) Chippindale, P. T., and J. J. Wiens. 1994. Weighting, partitioning, and
combining characters in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology
43:278–287 (order of authorship alphabetical).
(11) Wiens, J. J., and P. T. Chippindale. 1994. Combining and weighting
characters and the prior agreement approach revisited. Systematic
Biology 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 different
numbers of taxa for phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 44:548–558.

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(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 using
morphological data: A reappraisal. Systematic Botany 21:237–243.
(16) Reeder, T. W., and J. J. Wiens. 1996. Evolution of the lizard family
Phrynosomatidae as inferred from diverse types of data. Herpetological
Monographs 10:43–84.
(17) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Servedio. 1997. Accuracy of phylogenetic analysis
including and excluding polymorphic characters. Systematic Biology
46:332–345.
(18) Wiens, J. J. 1997. Review of “Homoplasy. The Recurrence of Similarity in
Evolution.” 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 and
intraspecific variation: Performance of parsimony, likelihood, and
distance methods. Systematic Biology 47:228–253.
(22) Wiens, J. J. 1998. The accuracy of methods for coding and sampling
higher-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 in
phrynosomatid lizards. Systematic Biology 47:411–428.
(24) Wiens, J. J. 1998. Combining data sets with different phylogenetic
histories. Systematic Biology 47:568–581.
(25) Wiens, J. J. 1998. Does adding characters with missing data increase or
decrease phylogenetic accuracy? Systematic Biology 47:625–640.
(26) Wiens, J. J. 1999. Phylogenetic evidence for multiple losses of a sexually
selected character in phrynosomatid lizards. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London, Series B 266:1529–1535.

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(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. Molecular
phylogenetics and evolution of sexual dichromatism among populations
of the Yarrow’s spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii ). Evolution 53:1884–1897.
(29) Wiens, J. J., and B. D. Hollingsworth. 2000. War of the iguanas: conflicting
molecular and morphological phylogenies and long-branch attraction in
iguanid 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 Royal
Society 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
display behaviour in phrynosomatid lizards. Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 70:597–612.
(32) Wiens, J. J. 2000. Reconstructing phylogenies from allozyme data: testing
method performance with congruence. Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society 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 Texas
hemidactyliine plethodontid salamanders. Herpetological Monographs
14:1–80.
(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 morphological
systematics: Conflicts, artifacts, and misconceptions. Pages 1–19 in
Phylogenetic 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 of
morphological phylogenetics. Pages 20–36 in Phylogenetic analysis of
morphological data (J. J. Wiens, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press,
Washington, D.C.
(37) Wiens, J. J. 2000. Coding morphological variation for phylogenetic
analysis: 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 the
peacock lost its spots. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:517–523.

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**Cover article
(39) Wiens, J. J. 2001. Shape shifters. Time after time, lizards have dropped
their 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: a
phylogenetic 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
and morphological 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 from
continents to communities: the time-for-speciation effect in emydid
turtles. American Naturalist 161:112–128.
(45) Wiens, J. J., and M. R. Morris. 2003. Review of "Sexual Selections" by
Marlene Zuk. Quarterly Review of Biology 78:127.
(46) Wiens, J. J. 2003. Incomplete taxa, incomplete characters, and
phylogenetic accuracy: what is the missing data problem? Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 23:297–310.
**Invited symposium paper
(47) Wiens, J. J., P. T. Chippindale, and D. M. Hillis. 2003. When are
phylogenetic analyses misled by convergence? A case study in Texas
cave salamanders. Systematic Biology 52:501–514.
**Cover article
(48) Wiens, J. J. 2003. Missing data, incomplete taxa, and phylogenetic
accuracy. Systematic Biology 52:528–538.
(49) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2003. Ecological diversification and
phylogeny of emydid turtles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
79:577–610.
(50) Wiens, J. J., and R. E. Etheridge. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of
hoplocercid lizards: coding and combining meristic, morphometric, and
polymorphic data using step matrices. Herpetologica 59:375–398.
(51) Wiens, J. J. 2004. Speciation and ecology revisited: phylogenetic niche
conservatism and the origin of species. Evolution 58:193–197.

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(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, and
homogenization in the ecological structure of emydid turtle
communities: the effects of phylogeny and dispersal. American
Naturalist 64:244–254.
(54) Wiens, J. J. 2004. The role of morphological data in phylogeny
reconstruction. Systematic Biology 53:653–661.
(55) Wiens, J. J. 2004. Development and evolution of body form and limb
reduction 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 of
herbivory in small, cold-climate lizards: breaking the ecophysiological
rules of reptilian herbivory. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 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 in
plethodontid salamanders. Evolution 58:2809–2822.
(59) Wiens, J. J., R. M. Bonett, and P. T. Chippindale. 2005. Ontogeny
discombobulates phylogeny: paedomorphosis and higher-level
salamander phylogeny. Systematic Biology 54:91–110.
(60) Chippindale, P. T., and J. J. Wiens. 2005. Re-evolution of the larval stage
in the plethodontid salamander genus Desmognathus. Herpetological
Review 36:113–117.
(61) Wiens, J. J. and C. H. Graham. 2005. Niche conservatism: integrating
evolution, 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 from
long-branch attraction? Systematic Biology 54:731–742.

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(63) Wiens, J. J., J. W. Fetzner, C. L. Parkinson, and T. W. Reeder. 2005. Hylid
frog phylogeny and sampling strategies for speciose clades. Systematic
Biology 54:778–807.
(64) Smith, S. A., P. R. Stephens, and J. J. Wiens. 2005. Replicate patterns of
species richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctic
treefrogs. Evolution 59:2433–2450.
(65) Wiens, J. J., M. C. Brandley, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Why does a trait
evolve multiple times within a clade? Repeated evolution of snake-like
body 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 diversity
gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical
diversity. 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 “The
making of the fittest” by Sean Carroll). Bioscience 56:1014–1015.
(69) Wiens, J. J., T. N. Engstrom, and P. T. Chippindale. 2006. Rapid
diversification, incomplete isolation, and the “speciation clock” in North
American salamanders (genus Plethodon): testing the hybrid swarm
hypothesis of rapid radiation. Evolution 60:2585–2603.
(70) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2006. Does niche conservatism drive
speciation? A case study in North American salamanders. Evolution
60:2604–2621.
**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 in
tropical salamanders. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 274:919–
928.
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(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 in
Middle American treefrogs: why so few species in lowland tropical
rainforests? Evolution 61:1188–1207.
(74) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Pissing away the eons. Review of “Phylogeny and
conservation” by Purvis et al. 2005. Evolution 61:1788–1790.
(75) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Global patterns of species richness and diversification in
amphibians. American Naturalist 170:S86–S106.
(76) Wiens, J. J., C. Kuczynski, W. E. Duellman, and T. W. Reeder. 2007. Loss
and re-evolution of complex life cycles in marsupial frogs: can ancestral
trait reconstruction mislead? Evolution 61:1886–1899.
**Cover article.
(77) Smith, S. A., S. Arif, A. Nieto Montes de Oca, and J. J. Wiens. 2007. A
phylogenetic hotspot for evolutionary novelty in Middle American
treefrogs. Evolution 61:2075–2085.
(78) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2007. Climatic zonation drives latitudinal
variation in speciation mechanisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London 274:2995–3003.
(79) Wiens, J. J. 2007. Species delimitation: new approaches for discovering
diversity. Systematic Biology 56:875–878.
(80) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Testing for evolutionary trade-offs
in a phylogenetic context: ecological diversification and locomotor
performance in emydid turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:77–87.
(81) Kozak, K. H., C. H. Graham, and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Integrating GIS data
into 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 phylogenetic
analysis using genomic resources. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
47:129–142
(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 of
adaptive plasticity: risk-sensitive hatching in Neotropical leaf-breeding
treefrogs (Agalychnis: Hylidae). Ecological Monographs 78:205–224.

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(85) Wiens, J. J., and D. S. Moen. 2008. Missing data and the accuracy of
Bayesian phylogenetics. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46:307–314.
**Invited symposium paper
(86) Wiens, J. J., and J. T. Hoverman. 2008. Digit reduction, body size, and
paedomorphosis 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, and
congruence: testing the phylogenomic approach with 20 nuclear loci in
snakes. Systematic Biology 57:420–431.
(88) Brandley, M. C., J. P. Huelsenbeck, and J. J. Wiens. 2008. Rates and
patterns in the evolution of snake-like body form in squamate reptiles:
evidence for repeated re-evolution of lost digits and long-term
persistence of intermediate body forms. Evolution 62:2042–2064.
(89) Wiens, J. J. 2008. Commentary on Losos (2008): niche conservatism déjà
vu. Ecology Letters 11:1004–1005.
(90) Moen, D. S., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Phylogenetic evidence for
competitively-driven divergence: body-size evolution in Caribbean
treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteopilus). Evolution 63:195–214.
(91) Wiens, J. J. 2009. Estimating rates and patterns of morphological
evolution from phylogenies: lessons in limb lability from Australian
Lerista lizards. Journal of Biology 8:19.
**Invited review
(92) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Evolution of sexual size
dimorphisms 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 Old
World 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 parallel
diversification occur in sympatry? Repeated patterns of body-size
evolution in co-existing clades of North American salamanders.
Evolution 63:1769–1784.
(95) Wiens, J. J. 2009. Paleontology, genomics, and combined-data
phylogenetics: can molecular data improve phylogeny estimation for
fossil taxa? Systematic Biology 58:87–99.

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(96) Adams, D. C., C. M. Berns, K.H. Kozak, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Are rates of
species 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 assembly
through evolutionary diversification and dispersal in Middle American
treefrogs. Evolution 63:3228–3247.
(98) Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Bridging the gap between
biogeography and community ecology: niche conservatism and
community 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. A
revised phylogeny of Holarctic treefrogs (genus Hyla) based on nuclear
and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Herpetologica 65:246–259.
(100) Wiens, J. J., and M. C. Brandley. 2009. The evolution of limblessness. The
Grzimek 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 nuclear
and 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 speciation
mechanisms in frogs. Evolution 64:429–443.
(103) Wiens, J. J., C. A. Kuczynski, and P. R. Stephens. 2010. Discordant
mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles:
implications for speciation and conservation. Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 99:445–461.
(104) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Niche conservatism drives elevational
diversity patterns in Appalachian salamanders. American Naturalist
176:40–54.
**”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 expanded
phylogeny of treefrogs (Hylidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial
sequence 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, niche
conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 277:2131–2138.

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(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. Niche
conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation
biology. Ecology Letters 13:1310–1324.
**Invited review
(108) Kozak, K. H., and J. J. Wiens. 2010. Accelerated rates of climatic niche
evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378–
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 higher
level squamate reptile phylogeny: molecular data change the placement
of 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 advanced
snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and
comparison of support methods for likelihood trees. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 58:329–342.
(111) Wiens, J. J. 2011. Re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs after
more than 200 million years, and re-evaluating of Dollo’s law. Evolution
65:1283–1296.
**Featured in The New York Times, BBC News, National Geographic News,
EarthSky, The Scientist (under Naturally Selected, “Biology’s Personal Best”),
and in 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 of
local-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonian
megadiversity. 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 and
OurAmazingPlanet
(113) Wiens, J. J. 2011. The causes of species richness patterns across space,
time, and clades and the role of “ecological limits.” Quarterly Review of
Biology 86:75–96.
(114) Wiens, J. J., and M. C. Morrill. 2011. Missing data in phylogenetic
analysis: reconciling results from simulations and empirical data.
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(115) Wiens, J. J. 2011. The niche, biogeography, and species interactions.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 366:2336–
2350.
***Invited paper for symposium on "Ecology and Biogeography"
(116) Wiens, J. J., M. Sparreboom, and J. W. Arntzen. 2011. Crest evolution in
newts: implications for reconstruction methods, sexual selection,
phenotypic plasticity, and the origin of novelties. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology 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 29
nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree
approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution 61:363–380.
(118) Pyron, R. A., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia
including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs,
salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
61:543–583.
(119) Fisher-Reid, M. C., and J. J. Wiens. 2011. What are the consequences of
combining 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 insights
on evolutionary novelties in lizards and snakes: sex, birth, bodies,
niches, and venom. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
42:227–244.
**Invited review
(121) Carrete-Vega, G., and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Why are there so few fish in the
sea? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (published on line 8 Feb.)
***Featured as “Research Highlight” in Nature, 16 Feb. 2012
***Featured on many news web sites including CBS News, msnbc.com, EarthSky,
LiveScience, NewScientist, DailyMail, Huffington Post, World News Australia,
TheNewsWorld, WebIndia123, TopNews (India), SkyNews (Australia),
NewsTrackIndia, LeFigaro (France), Spiegel Online (Germany), News Pano,
PhysOrg.com, WorldNews.com, Yahoo News, Dallas Morning News, Australian
Geographic, United Press International, Press Association, OnePakistan,
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ExpressoAmbiental (Brazil), TechMoney (Poland), Polska Agencja Prasowa
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Mysterious Earth (China), and others for a total of 17 countries (U.S., U.K.,

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Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Netherlands, Croatia, Lithuania,
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Brazil, China, India, Pakistan)
***Phone interviews on CBS News Radio, Deutschlandfunk Radio (Germany),
EarthSky
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climate-richness relationships. Ecology (in press).
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(123) Blankers, T., D. C. Adams, and J. J. Wiens. 2012. Ecological radiation with
limited morphological diversification in salamanders. Journal of
Evolutionary Biology (in press).