Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Phylogenetic methods in biogeography

F Ronquist, I Sanmartín - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Phylogenetic approaches to biogeography are rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Four
types of models are being explored in the literature:(a) diffusion models,(b) island models,(c) …

[LIVRE][B] Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionary approach

CB Cox, PD Moore, RJ Ladle - 2016 - books.google.com
Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological
and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the …

[LIVRE][B] Care of the species: Races of corn and the science of plant biodiversity

J Hartigan Jr - 2017 - books.google.com
Across the globe, an expanding circle of care is encompassing a growing number of species
through efforts targeting biodiversity, profoundly revising the line between humans and …

The evolution of African plant diversity

HP Linder - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Sub-Saharan Africa includes some 45,000 plant species. The spatial patterns of this
diversity have been well explored. We can group the species into a set of biogeographical …

Bridging the micro‐and macroevolutionary levels in phylogenomics: Hyb‐Seq solves relationships from populations to species and above

T Villaverde, L Pokorny, S Olsson… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing phylogenetic relationships at the micro‐and macroevoutionary levels within
the same tree is problematic because of the need to use different data types and analytical …

A worldwide molecular phylogeny and classification of the leafy spurges, Euphorbia subgenus Esula (Euphorbiaceae)

R Riina, JA Peirson, DV Geltman, J Molero, B Frajman… - Taxon, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The leafy spurges, Euphorbia subg. Esula, make up one of four main lineages in Euphorbia.
The subgenus comprises about 480 species, most of which are annual or perennial herbs …

Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models using posterior predictive simulations

LPA Mulvey, MR May, JM Brown, S Höhna… - Systematic …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of different groups of organisms provides insight into
how life originated and diversified on Earth. Phylogenetic trees are commonly used to …

An evaluation of new parsimony‐based versus parametric inference methods in biogeography: a case study using the globally distributed plant family Sapindaceae

S Buerki, F Forest, N Alvarez… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Recently developed parametric methods in historical biogeography allow researchers
to integrate temporal and palaeogeographical information into the reconstruction of …

Living on the edge: timing of Rand Flora disjunctions congruent with ongoing aridification in Africa

L Pokorny, R Riina, M Mairal, AS Meseguer… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Rand Flora is a well-known floristic pattern in which unrelated plant lineages show
similar disjunct distributions in the continental margins of Africa and adjacent islands …