“…Some examples of the constituent disciplines in this pursuit include biology (e.g., community ecology, phylogeography, systematics, taxonomy, historical biogeography; Lomolino, Riddle & Whitakker, 2017 ), geology (e.g., palaeontology, sedimentology, geomorphology), and climatology (e.g., modeling, speleology), amongst others. Successful examples of trans-disciplinary research include the archaeology-ecology synergy that led to the elucidation of pre-Columbian effects on the distribution of Amazonian plants ( Levis et al, 2017 ); the genetic-geology synergy that led to the discovery of an earlier and more prolonged biotic interchange between South and North America since the Miocene ( Bacon et al, 2015 ; De Baets, Antonelli & Donoghue, 2016 ), and the geology-biogeography-systematics synergy that led the discovery of a Miocene origin for the modern transcontinental Amazon river ( Hoorn et al, 2010b ; Albert, Val & Hoorn, in press ). Some of these interactions are already recognized as new sub-disciplines, such as “community phylogenetics” ( Swenson, 2011 ), “geogenomics” ( Baker et al, 2014 ), and “geodiversity” ( Gray, 2004 ).…”