Are evolutionary outcomes predictable? Adaptations that show repeated evolutionary
convergence across the Tree of Life provide a special opportunity to dissect the context …

Earth's most speciose biomes are in the tropics, yet tropical plant phenology remains poorly
understood. Tropical phenological data are comparatively scarce and viewed through the …

Premise of the Study Large phylogenies can help shed light on macroevolutionary patterns
that inform our understanding of fundamental processes that shape the tree of life. These …

Nonrandom collecting practices may bias conclusions drawn from analyses of herbarium
records. Recent efforts to fully digitize and mobilize regional floras online offer a timely …

Clarifying the evolution and mechanisms for photosynthetic productivity is a key to both
improving crops and understanding plant evolution and habitat distributions. Current theory …

The role played by whole genome duplication (WGD) in plant evolution is actively debated.
WGD s have been associated with advantages such as superior colonization, various …

Premise Geophytes—plants that typically possess a bulb, corm, tuber, and/or rhizome—
have long captured the attention of hobbyists and researchers. However, despite the …

Existing global regionalization schemes for plants consider the compositional affinities
among biotas, but these have not explicitly considered phylogenetic information. Here, we …

The deciduous habit of northern temperate trees and shrubs provides one of the most
obvious examples of convergent evolution, but how did it evolve? Hypotheses based on the …

The spatial distribution of biomes has changed considerably over deep time, so the
geographical opportunity for an evolutionary lineage to shift into a new biome may depend …