Search Constraints
Search Results
-
2020
Journal article
What drives diversification in a pantropical plant lineage with extraordinary capacity for long‐distance dispersal and colonization?
Aim Colonization of new areas may entail shifts in diversification rates linked to biogeographical movement (dispersification), which may involve niche evolution if species were not exapted to new environments. Scleria (Cyperaceae) includes c. 250 species and has a pantropical distribution suggesting an extraordinary capacity for long‐distance dispersal and colonization. We...Larridon, Isabel ; Galán Díaz, Javier ; Bauters, Kenneth ; Escudero, Marcial
niche evolution, dispersification, biogeography, ancestral range estimation , Cyperaceae, and nutrushes
-
2008
Book
Genera Palmarum - The Evolution and Classification of the Palms
Since the publication of the first edition of Genera Palmarum in 1987, there has been an explosion of interest in this quintessentially tropical flowering plant family. Palms tend to attract attention, perhaps because of their recognisable rather simple growth form, their ecological and economic importance, or indeed simply because of... -
2019
Journal article
Repeated long-distance dispersal and convergent evolution in hazel
Closely related species with a worldwide distribution provide an opportunity to understand evolutionary and biogeographic processes at a global scale. Hazel (Corylus) is an economically important genus of tree and shrub species found in temperate regions of Asia, North America and Europe. Here we use multiple nuclear and chloroplast loci...Helmstetter, Andrew J. ; Buggs, Richard J. A. ; Lucas, Stuart J.