In Brazil, the country with the highest plant species richness in the world, biodiverse
savannas and grasslands–ie, grassy ecosystems, which occupy 27% of the country–have …

Global sustainability rests on a myriad of benefits provided by natural ecosystems that
support human livelihoods and well-being, from biodiversity persistence to climate …

Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Poales are one of the most species‐rich, ecologically and economically important orders of
plants and often characterise open habitats, enabled by unique suites of traits. We test six …

Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established
environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of …

OCBIL theory was introduced as a contribution towards understanding the evolution,
ecology and conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of old, climatically buffered …

Hybridization can facilitate both evolutionary diversification and extinction and has had a
critical role in plant evolution, with c. 25% of species known to hybridize in some temperate …

Lineage‐specific traits determine how plants interact with their surrounding environment.
Unrelated species may evolve similar phenotypic characteristics to tolerate, persist in, and …

The evolution of annual or perennial strategies in flowering plants likely depends on a broad
array of temperature and precipitation variables. Previous documented climate life‐history …

Few ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the ecology and evolution of the
campo rupestre, an ancient azonal peinobiome characterized by a fire-prone, nutrient …