A recurring feature of oceanic archipelagos is the presence of adaptive radiations that
generate endemic, species-rich clades that can offer outstanding insight into the links …

Abstract With c. 24 700 species (10% of all flowering plants), Asteraceae are one of the
largest and most phenotypically diverse angiosperm families, with considerable economic …

Assessing the distribution of geographically restricted and evolutionarily unique species and
their underlying drivers is key to understanding biogeographical processes and critical for …

Evolutionary radiation is a widely recognized mode of species diversification, but its
underlying mechanisms have not been unambiguously resolved for species-rich …

Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Whole genome duplication or polyploidy is widespread among floras globally, but
traditionally has been thought to have played a minor role in the evolution of island …

The repeated, rapid and often pronounced patterns of evolutionary divergence observed in
insular plants, or the 'plant island syndrome', include changes in leaf phenotypes, growth, as …

Aim Evolutionary studies of oceanic island endemics are usually focused on lineages that
have experienced in situ radiation, while those that speciated once on the island or …

Adaptive radiation is an evolutionary process that has been promulgated in some clades as
an explanation for species richness and disparity in morphological forms across ecological …

A fundamental question in biology is whether phenotypes can be predicted by ecological or
genomic rules. At least five cases of convergent evolution of the crab‐like body plan (with a …