Genetic structuring of plant populations is strongly influenced by both common ancestry and
current patterns of interpopulation genetic exchange. The interaction of these two forces is …

Early in the development of plant evolutionary biology, genetic drift, fluctuations in
population size, and isolation were identified as critical processes that affect the course of …

Aim A major biogeographical hypothesis, the 'niche‐breadth'hypothesis, explains species
range sizes based on the extent of a species' niche (eg diversity of habitats occupied; range …

Plant populations are not randomly arranged assemblages of genotypes but are structured
in space and time (2, 29, 49, 58, 84, 112). This structure may be manifested among …

This special issue of Molecular Ecology celebrates the birth of phylogeography 10 years ago
(Avise et al. 1987). Because the discipline has deep roots in historical biogeography and …

Ecology affects each of the three principal processes leading to speciation: genetic
differentiation among populations within species, acquisition of reproductive isolation …

Genome scans have become a common approach to identify genomic signatures of natural
selection and reproductive isolation, as well as the genomic bases of ecologically relevant …

Arabidopsis thaliana provides a useful model system for functional, evolutionary and
ecological studies in plant biology. We have analysed natural genetic variation in A. thaliana …

▪ Abstract The study of natural plant populations has provided some of the strongest and
most convincing cases of the operation of natural selection currently known, partly because …

One of the striking observations from the young field of molecular evolutionary biology has
been the high frequency of cases where taxon-specific markers are found to differ widely in …