Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to 'localism'

P Gąsiorek - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This review synthesizes recent developments in the field of tardigrade biogeography, tracing
back to the origins of Baas Becking's hypothesis that 'everything is everywhere but the …

Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees

WY Guo, JM Serra-Diaz, WL Eiserhardt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Across the globe, tree species are under high anthropogenic pressure. Risks of extinction
are notably more severe for species with restricted ranges and distinct evolutionary histories …

Biocultural diversity and crop improvement

P Gepts - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Biocultural diversity is the ever-evolving and irreplaceable sum total of all living organisms
inhabiting the Earth. It plays a significant role in sustainable productivity and ecosystem …

Diversification of flowering plants in space and time

D Dimitrov, X Xu, X Su, N Shrestha, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The rapid diversification and high species richness of flowering plants is regarded as
'Darwin's second abominable mystery'. Today the global spatiotemporal pattern of plant …

GIFT—An R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits

P Denelle, P Weigelt, H Kreft - Methods in Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advancing knowledge of biodiversity requires global open‐access databases. Having large‐
scale information on plant distributions, functional traits and evolutionary history will enable …

Island biogeography of the megadiverse plant family Asteraceae

L Roeble, KJ van Benthem, P Weigelt, H Kreft… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The megadiverse plant family Asteraceae forms an iconic component of island floras
including many spectacular radiations, but a global picture of its insular diversity is lacking …

Effects of climate and environmental heterogeneity on the phylogenetic structure of regional angiosperm floras worldwide

H Qian, S Qian, J Zhang, M Kessler - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological distributions (phylogenetic niche
conservatism) is thought to influence which species from a species pool can persist in a …

Global patterns and determinants of phylogenetic beta diversity among liverwort floras

H Qian, S Qian, J Wang, M Kessler - Journal of Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Investigating phylogenetic beta diversity, and its turnover and nestedness components,
can shed light on the evolutionary causes shaping the similarity (or dissimilarity) in …

[HTML][HTML] Global patterns and ecological drivers of taxonomic and phylogenetic endemism in angiosperm genera

H Qian, BD Mishler, J Zhang, S Qian - Plant Diversity, 2024 - Elsevier
Endemism of lineages lies at the core of understanding variation in community composition
among geographic regions because it reflects how speciation, extinction, and dispersal …

The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations

JW Kadereit - Alpine Botany, 2024 - Springer
A little more than 10% of the vascular plant flora native to the European Alps is endemic to
this area. It has long been noticed that the distribution of endemics across the Alps is very …