Heterogeneity across lineages

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Table of contents

Introduction
1 Tools for studying diversification from reconstructed phylogenies
1.1 Phylogenies of extant species
1.2 Phylogenetic tree shape
1.3 Estimating diversification rates from phylogenies
1.4 Models of cladogenesis below the species level
2 Incorporating heterogeneity in diversification models
2.1 Heterogeneity through time
2.2 Heterogeneity across lineages
3 Effects of species interspecific interactions on diversification
3.1 Biotic drivers of species diversity
3.2 Bipartite interactions
4 Thesis outline
Chapter 1 : A new index for the clade age-richness relationship
Chapter 2 : Quantifying diversification rate heterogeneity in empirical phylogenies
Chapter 3 : On bipartite ecological interactions and their impact on species richness 
General discussion
1 Various modeling approaches to study biodiversity evolution
2 Limitations and perspectives
2.1 Goodness of fit
2.2 Incomplete sampling
2.3 Molecular phylogenies as empirical data
2.4 From patterns to processes
2.5 Extensions of the bipartite speciation model
2.6 Extensions of the heterogeneous speciation model
2.7 A few concluding words