Many tropical mountain ecosystems (TME) are severely disturbed, requiring ecological
restoration to recover biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, the extent of …

Some of the most spectacular adaptive radiations begin with founder populations on remote
islands. How genetically limited founder populations give rise to the striking phenotypic and …

As the most remote archipelago in the world, the Hawaiian Islands are home to a highly
endemic and disharmonic biota that has fascinated biologists for centuries. Forests are the …

For a better understanding of the influence of external growth factors on the wood structure,
samples of 139 tropical trees were analysed across plant families and a wide climatic …

A long-standing goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the mechanisms underlying
the formation of species. Of particular interest is whether or not speciation can occur in the …

Large areas of tropical forest have been cleared and planted with exotic grass species for
use as cattle pasture. These often remain persistent grasslands after grazer removal, which …

Restoration of tropical forests can lead to enhanced ecosystem services and increases in
native biodiversity. Bryophytes may be an integral part of the forest restoration process and …

Aim Little is known about how diversification occurs within long‐lived, highly dispersible and
continuously distributed groups. We examined the distribution of genetic variation within the …

Premise The drivers of isolation between sympatric populations of long‐lived and highly
dispersible conspecific plants are not well understood. In the Hawaiian Islands, the …

Tree ferns are slow-growing and long-lived components of temperate forests; however,
these characteristics make determining size-age and population dynamics through …