More on biogeographic homology

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

With great interest, I am following these discussions on biogeography.
I understand perfectly well, that before getting a partisan of a certain
method it might be good to study the whole range of what has already been
done...

Are there any recent works and software more aligned to the quantitative
grid method, previously mentioned?
And do grid-methods somehow tie in with classical phylogenetic approaches or is
it a completely different story?

        Thomas