Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

High‐throughput sequencing is helping biologists to overcome the difficulties of inferring the
phylogenies of recently diverged taxa. The present study analyzes the phylogenetic signal of …

The Andes is recognized as one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, promoting in its
uplift process a series of recent rapid diversification events in different biotic groups like …

Abstract Aim The Andean superpáramo ecosystem, above c. 4200 m asl, currently forms an
archipelago of isolated 'sky islands' which provides a unique setting to study biogeography …

This study characterized “canudo de pito” honeys by melissopalynological analysis,
physicochemical characteristics, sugars, minerals, aliphatic organic acids (AOA), phenolic …

We assess the Tropical Niche Conservatism Hypothesis in the genus Escallonia in South
America using phylogeny, paleoclimate estimation and current niche modelling. We tested …

There is a significant dendrochronological gap in the Puna of the central Andes of Peru,
which motivates research on new species. In this study, we present the first tree-ring …

What we mean by species and whether they have any biological reality has been debated
since the early days of evolutionary biology. Some biologists even suggest that plant …

Propolis is a complex mixture formed from exudates that bees collect from plants and then
mix with beeswax and their own salivary enzymes. Chilean propolis is characterized by the …

Abstract Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) is a New World genus of c. 39 species distributed
mainly in the South American highlands. Plastid DNA sequence data from the intergenic …