Bryophyte biogeography

J Patiño, A Vanderpoorten - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Macaronesia as a fruitful arena for ecology, evolution, and conservation biology

M Florencio, J Patiño, S Nogué, A Traveset… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research in Macaronesia has led to substantial advances in ecology, evolution and
conservation biology. We review the scientific developments achieved in this region, and …

A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

J Patiño, RJ Whittaker, PAV Borges… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island
Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review …

Wallacean and Melanesian islands promote higher rates of diversification within the global passerine radiation Corvides

JM McCullough, CH Oliveros, BW Benz… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The complex island archipelagoes of Wallacea and Melanesia have provided empirical data
behind integral theories in evolutionary biology, including allopatric speciation and island …

Rapid diversification and secondary sympatry in Australo-Pacific kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae: Todiramphus)

MJ Andersen, HT Shult, A Cibois… - Royal Society …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Todiramphus chloris is the most widely distributed of the Pacific's 'great speciators'. Its 50
subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000 km from the Red …

Approximate Bayesian computation reveals the crucial role of oceanic islands for the assembly of continental biodiversity

J Patiño, M Carine, P Mardulyn, N Devos… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The perceived low levels of genetic diversity, poor interspecific competitive and defensive
ability, and loss of dispersal capacities of insular lineages have driven the view that oceanic …

Climate threat on the Macaronesian endemic bryophyte flora

J Patiño, RG Mateo, F Zanatta, A Marquet, SC Aranda… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Oceanic islands are of fundamental importance for the conservation of biodiversity because
they exhibit high endemism rates coupled with fast extinction rates. Nowhere in Europe is …

The sweet tabaiba or there and back again: phylogeographical history of the Macaronesian Euphorbia balsamifera

M Rincón-Barrado, T Villaverde, MF Perez… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Biogeographical relationships between the Canary Islands
and north-west Africa are often explained by oceanic dispersal and geographical proximity …

Modeling species distributions from heterogeneous data for the biogeographic regionalization of the European bryophyte flora

RG Mateo, A Vanderpoorten, J Muñoz, B Laenen… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The definition of biogeographic regions provides a fundamental framework for a range of
basic and applied questions in biogeography, evolutionary biology, systematics and …

Biological and nonbiological sources of fluorescent aerosol particles in the urban atmosphere

S Yue, L Li, W Xu, J Zhao, H Ren, D Ji… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Online detection of bioaerosols based on the light-induced fluorescence (LIF) technique is
still challenging due to the complexity of bioaerosols and the external/internal mixing with …