The relationship between intra-specific and inter-specific patterns and processes over
evolutionary time is key to ecological investigations. We examine this relationship from a …

Consideration of the scale at which communities are defined both taxonomically and
spatially can reconcile apparently contradictory results on the extent to which plants show …

This chapter examines landscape genetic studies in plant population genetics. The main
focus here is on the discussion of approaches and examples showing how population …

The causes of the rapid diversification and extraordinary richness of flowering plants
(angiosperms) relative to other plant clades is a long-standing mystery. Angiosperms are …

The species composition of regional plant assemblages can in large part be explained by a
long history of biogeographical and evolutionary events. Traditional attempts of floristic …

Hypotheses to explain phylogeographic structure traditionally invoke geographic features,
but often fail to provide a general explanation for spatial patterns of genetic variation …

Biodiversity is comprised of genetic and phenotypic variation among individual organisms,
which might belong to the same species or to different species. Spatial patterns of …

Aim The alpine region of mainland Australia is one of the world's 187 biodiversity hotspots.
Genetic analyses of Australian alpine fauna indicate high levels of endemism on fine spatial …

Landscape genetics is a burgeoning field of interest that focuses on how sitespecific factors
influence the distribution of genetic variation and the genetic connectivity of individuals and …

The last decade has seen the rise of the research fields of DNA analysis and population or
ecological genetics. They have the potential to allow the revision of landscape ecological …