Circuit‐theory applications to connectivity science and conservation

BG Dickson, CM Albano, R Anantharaman… - Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation practitioners have long recognized ecological connectivity as a global priority
for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem function. In the early years of conservation …

Diversification, adaptation, and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution

J Cavender‐Bares - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 669 I. Model clades for the study and integration of ecology and
evolution 670 II. Oaks: an important model clade 671 III. Insights from the history of the …

An Updated Infrageneric Classification of the North American Oaks (Quercus Subgenus Quercus): Review of the Contribution of Phylogenomic Data to Biogeography …

PS Manos, AL Hipp - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The oak flora of North America north of Mexico is both phylogenetically diverse and species-
rich, including 92 species placed in five sections of subgenus Quercus, the oak clade …

Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a …

V Noguerales, E Meramveliotakis… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in driving
metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we …

Gene flow and natural selection shape spatial patterns of genes in tree populations: implications for evolutionary processes and applications

VL Sork - Evolutionary applications, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A central question in evolutionary biology is how gene flow and natural selection shape
geographic patterns of genotypic and phenotypic variation. My overall research program has …

Genomic data reveal cryptic lineage diversification and introgression in Californian golden cup oaks (section Protobalanus)

JÝ Ortego, PF Gugger, VL Sork - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Here we study hybridization, introgression and lineage diversification in the widely
distributed canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) and the relict island oak (Q. átomentella) …

RAD-seq data for Engelhardia roxburghiana provide insights into the palaeogeography of Hainan Island and its relationship to mainland China since the late Eocene

PH Huang, TR Wang, M Li, ZJ Lu, RP Su… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Hainan Island in southern China is situated within the Indo-Burma biodiversity
hotspot, and has attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists, geologists, and …

Can long‐lived species keep pace with climate change? Evidence of local persistence potential in a widespread conifer

SM Bisbing, AK Urza, BJ Buma… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change poses significant challenges for tree species, which are slow to adapt
and migrate. Insight into genetic and phenotypic variation under current landscape …

Isolation by instability: Historical climate change shapes population structure and genomic divergence of treefrogs in the Neotropical Cerrado savanna

MM Vasconcellos, GR Colli, JN Weber… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although the impact of Pleistocene glacial cycles on the diversification of the tropical biota
was once dismissed, increasing evidence suggests that Pleistocene climatic fluctuations …

Land bridges in the Pleistocene contributed to flora assembly on the continental islands of South China: Insights from the evolutionary history of Quercus championii

XL Jiang, EM Gardner, HH Meng, M Deng… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The South China Mainland (SCM) and its adjacent continental islands are a global
biodiversity hotspot. However, how and when plants dispersed between SCM and …