The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Species environmental niches are central to ecology, evolution, and global change
research, but their characterization and interpretation depend on the spatial scale …

How coniferous forests evolved in the Northern Hemisphere remains largely unknown.
Unlike most groups of organisms that generally follow a latitudinal diversity gradient, most …

Cycads represent one of the most ancient lineages of living seed plants. Identifying genomic
features uniquely shared by cycads and other extant seed plants, but not non-seed …

Conflicting relationships have been found between diversification rate and temperature
across disparate clades of life. Here, we use a supermatrix comprising nearly 20,000 …

The mega-diversity of herbivorous insects is attributed to their co-evolutionary associations
with plants. Despite abundant studies on insect-plant interactions, we do not know whether …

Speciation rates vary greatly among taxa and regions and are shaped by both biotic and
abiotic factors. However, the relative importance and interactions of these factors are not …

Evolvability is best addressed from a multi-level, macroevolutionary perspective through a
comparative approach that tests for among-clade differences in phenotypic diversification in …

Abiotic niche lability reduces extinction risk by allowing species to adapt to changing
environmental conditions in situ. In contrast, species with static niches must keep pace with …