Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace's Line

A Skeels, LM Boschman, IR McFadden, EM Joyce… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Faunal turnover in Indo-Australia across Wallace's Line is one of the most recognizable
patterns in biogeography and has catalyzed debate about the role of evolutionary and …

Plant species biogeographic origin shapes their current and future distribution on the world's highest island mountain

LA Trethowan, BE Walker, SP Bachman, C Heatubun… - 2022 - repository.unipa.ac.id
1. In New Guinea, low elevations are thought to be dominated by plant species with
biogeographic origins in Sunda (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Mainland Asia) and high elevations …

Environmental stress influences Malesian Lamiaceae distributions

LA Trethowan, C Arvidsson… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dual effects of spatial distance and environment shape archipelagic floras. In Malesia, there
are multiple environmental stressors associated with increasing uplands, drought, and metal …

Environment‐dependent influence of fruit size upon the distribution of the Malesian archipelagic flora

LA Trethowan, L Jennings, G Bramley… - Plants, People …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement We found evidence that larger fruited plant species are more
likely to be found in aseasonal wet areas of Malesia. These areas are likely to be impacted …

Biogeographic affiliation and centers of richness as predictors of elevational range‐size patterns for Malesian flora

M Whitman, SE Russo - Ecography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Our goal was to interrogate the idea that “mountain passes are higher in the tropics” by
investigating ecological and biogeographic drivers of elevational range‐sizes patterns …

Island area, isolation and climate effects upon flower traits in a megadiverse archipelago

LA Trethowan, L Jennings, G Bramley… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Flower traits are critical to the mutualistic networks that underpin ecosystem function.
However, the broad‐scale drivers of flower traits are unclear. Using the megadiverse islands …

Giant Seeds of an Extant Australasian Legume Lineage Discovered in Eocene Borneo (South Kalimantan, Indonesia)

EJ Spagnuolo, P Wilf, JP Zonneveld… - … Journal of Plant …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. The Neogene collision of the Australian tectonic plate (Sahul) with
Southeast Asia (Sunda) restructured the vegetation of both regions. The rarity of plant …

[引用][C] Trait dependent change on the world's tallest island mountain

M Laverick