Haghighatnia M., Schmickl R., Machac A., Placette, C. (2023) Darwin’s “mystery of mysteries”: the role of sexual selection in plant speciation. Biological Reviews. 98:1928-1944.
Odriozola I., Martinović T., Mašínová T., Bahnmann B.D., Machac A., Sedlák P., Tomšovský M., Baldrian P. (2023) The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33:173-188.
Machac, A. (2023) The geography of climate governs biodiversity. Nature, 622:463–464.
Rolland J., Henao-Diaz L.F., Doebeli M., Germain R., Harmon L.J., Knowles L.L., Liow L.H., Mank J.E., Machac A., Otto S.P., Pennell M., Salamin N., Silvestro D., Sugawara M., Uyeda J., Wagner C.E., Schluter D. (2023) Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 7:1181 1193.
Barreto E., Lim M.C.W., Rojas D., Dávalos L.M., Wüest R.O., Machac A., Graham, C.H. (2023) Morphology and niche evolution influence hummingbird speciation rates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290:20221793.
Cerezer F.O., Machac A., Rangel T.F., Dambros C.S. (2022) Exceptions to the rule: Relative roles of time, diversification rates and regional energy in shaping the inverse latitudinal diversity gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31:1794-1809.
Machac A. (2020) The dynamics of bird diversity in the New World. Systematic Biology. 69: 1180-1199.
Větrovský T., Kohout P., Kopecký M., Machac A., Man M., Bahnmann B., Brabcová V., Choi J., Harantová L., Human Z., Lepinay C., Lladó S., López-Mondéjar R., Martinovic T., Mašínová T., Kumazawa Morais D., Navrátilová D., Odriozola I., Štursová M., Švec K., Tláskal V., Urbanová M., Wan J., Žifčáková L., Howe A., Ladau J., Peay K., Storch D., Wild J. (2019) A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patterns. Nature Communications. 10:1-9.
Souto-Vilaros D., Machac A., Michalek J., Darwell C.T., Sisol M., Kuyaiva T., Isua B., Weiblen G.D., Novotny V., Segar S.T. (2019) Faster speciation of fig-wasps than their host figs leads to decoupled speciation dynamics: snapshots across the speciation continuum. Molecular Ecology. 28:3958–3976.
Kennedy J.D., Borregaard M.K., Marki P.Z., Machac A., Fjeldså J., Rahbek C. (2018) Expansion in geographic and morphological space drives continued lineage diversification in a global passerine radiation. Proceedings of Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285: 20182181.
Graham C.H., Storch D., Machac A. (2018) Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27: 175-187. Preprint.
Machac A., Graham C. H., Storch D. (2018) Ecological controls of mammalian diversification vary with phylogenetic scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27:32-46.
Machac A., Graham C. H. (2017) Regional diversity and diversification in mammals. American Naturalist. 189: E1-E13.
Jønsson K.A., Borregaard M.K., Carstensen D.W., Hansen L.A., Kennedy J.D., Machac A., Marki P.Z., Fjeldså J., Rahbek C (2017). Biogeography and biotic assembly of Indo-Pacific corvoid passerine bird diversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 48: 231-253.
Oliveira B. F., Machac A., Costa G. C., Brooks T. M., Davidson A.D., Rondinini C., Graham C. H. (2016) Species and functional diversity accumulate differently in mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25:1190-1130.
Laenen B., Machac A., Gradstein R. S., Shaw B., Patino J., Desamore A., Goffinet B., Cox C. J., Shaw J., Vanderpoorten A. (2016) Increased diversification rates follow shifts to bisexuality in liverworts. New Phytologist 210: 1121–1129.
Laenen B., Machac A., Gradstein R. S., Shaw B., Patino J., Desamore A., Goffinet B., Cox C. J., Shaw J., Vanderpoorten A. (2015) Geographical range in liverworts: does sex really matter? Journal of Biogeography 43: 627–635.
Machac A. (2014) Detecting trait-dependent diversification under diversification slowdowns. Evolutionary Biology 41: 201-211.
Machac A., Storch D., Wiens J. J. (2013) Ecological causes of decelerating diversification in carnivoran mammals. Evolution 67: 2423-2433.
Machac A., Storch D., Zrzavy J., Smrckova J. (2012) Temperature dependence of evolutionary diversification: differences between two contrasting model taxa support the metabolic theory of ecology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2449-2456. * Featured in EGI Grid Computing.
Machac A., Zrzavy J., Storch D. (2011) Range size heritability in Carnivora is driven by geographic constraints. American Naturalist 177: 767-779.
Machac A., Janda M., Dunn R. R., Sanders N. J. (2011) Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity. Ecography 34: 364-371.
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Most recent work
Ecology of diversification in corvoid passerines - several projects currently under development, together with Knud A. Jønsson, Michael K. Borregaard, Daniel W. Carstensen, Jonathan D. Kennedy, Petter Zahl Marki, Jon Fjeldså, & Carsten Rahbek from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate (CMEC), Copenhagen, Denmark