A thorough review concerning palm uses in tropical rainforests of north-western South
America was carried out to understand patterns of palm use throughout ecoregions …

Acrocomia spp., a genus of wild-growing palms in the neotropics, is rapidly gaining interest
as a promising multipurpose crop. Diverse products can be derived from various …

This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by
human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and …

Aim Palms are an ecologically and societally important plant group, with high diversity in the
Neotropics. Here, we estimated the impacts of future climate change on phylogenetic …

Abstract The Amazon region in Brazil contains c. 5% of the palm species of the world.
However, palm cover at macroecological scales has not yet been quantified in this biome …

The turnover of phylogenetic clades across space is a fundamental biodiversity pattern that
may depend on long-term evolutionary processes and that has downstream effects on other …

Understanding the responses of individual plant species along different edaphic gradients is
a key question in ecology, with implications to community assembly, functioning of forest …

With 788 species in 67 genera in the Neotropics, Arecaceae are an important ecological and
economic component of the region. We review the influence of geological events such as …

The Arecaceae family has a worldwide distribution, especially in tropical and subtropical
regions. We sequenced the chloroplast genomes of Acrocomia intumescens and A. totai …

Understanding the genetics of biological diversification across micro‐and macro‐
evolutionary time scales is a vibrant field of research for molecular ecologists as rapid …