Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Alpine plant radiations are compared across the world's major mountain ranges and shown
to be overwhelmingly young and fast, largely confined to the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and …

Origins of an alpine flora The evolution of high mountain floras is strongly influenced by
tectonic and climatic history. Ding et al. document the timing, tempo, and mode by which the …

Background Understanding the patterns of biodiversity distribution and what influences them
is a fundamental pre-requisite for effective conservation and sustainable utilisation of …

Tropical moist forests and savannas are iconic biomes. There is, however, a third principal
biome in the lowland tropics that is less well known: tropical dry forest. Discussions on …

Determining where species diversify (cradles) and persist (museums) over evolutionary time
is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity and for conservation …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Abstract The East Asian flora (EAF) is a key biodiversity hotspot for understanding the origin
and evolution of Northern Hemisphere floras, but there is an ongoing debate on whether it is …

For decades, there has been enormous scientific interest in tropical savannahs and
grasslands, fuelled by the recognition that they are a dynamic and potentially unstable …

There is a clear link between human developmental strides and biodiversity status on the
African continent. The link exists in the form of drivers, outlooks, emergent properties and …