Here, the coevolution of mycorrhizal fungi and roots is assessed in the light of evidence now
available, from palaeobotanical and morphological studies and the analysis of DNA‐based …

Abstract Changes in pollen and spore assemblages across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–
Pg) boundary elucidate the vegetation response to a global environmental crisis triggered …

Aim To quantify the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity by
assessing burnt area across 26,062 species ranges and the effects of fire history on …

Aim The mesic biome, encompassing both rain forest and open sclerophyllous forests, is
central to understanding the evolution of Australia's terrestrial biota and has long been …

Australia has not always been arid, and the central desert was once well watered. This
paper traces the changes in climate and vegetation, leading to the present aridity. At the …

The Australian fossil record shows that from ca. 25 Myr ago, the aseasonal–wet biome
(rainforest and wet heath) gave way to the unique Australian sclerophyll biomes dominated …

Annonaceae are a pantropically distributed family found predominantly in rainforests, so
they are megathermal taxa, whereas Rhamnaceae are a cosmopolitan family that tend to be …

Flowering plants in Australia have been geographically isolated for more than 34 million
years. In the Northern Hemisphere, previous work has revealed a close fit between the …

The collapse of late Permian (Lopingian) Gondwanan floras, characterized by the extinction
of glossopterid gymnosperms, heralded the end of one of the most enduring and extensive …

The spatial and temporal patterns of plant species radiations are largely unknown. I used a
nonlinear regression to estimate speciation and extinction rates from all relevant dated …