Key message This review highlights some of the discoveries and applications made
possible by “omics” technologies over the last 10 years and provides perspectives for …

The accumulation of biodiversity in tropical forests can occur through multiple allopatric and
parapatric models of diversification, including forest refugia, riverine barriers and ecological …

Many large species have declined worldwide due to habitat fragmentation and poaching.
The defaunation of large frugivores and the consequent reductions of seed dispersal …

Aim Phylogeographical signatures of past population fragmentation and demographic
change have been reported in several African rain forest trees. These signatures have …

Understanding the evolutionary dynamics of genetic diversity is fundamental for species
conservation in the face of climate change, particularly in hyper-diverse biomes. Species in …

Organismal traits interact with environmental variation to mediate how species respond to
shared landscapes. Thus, differences in traits related to dispersal ability or physiological …

Aim To investigate how putative barriers, forest refugia, and ecological gradients across the
lower Guineo‐Congolian rain forest shape genetic and phenotypic divergence in the leaf …

The fossil record in tropical Africa suggests that dry conditions during the Ice Ages caused
expansion of savannahs and contraction of the rainforest. Forest refugia have been …

The tropical rain forests of Central Africa contain high levels of species diversity.
Paleovegetation or biodiversity patterns suggested successive contraction/expansion …

Abstract Knowledge on faunal diversification in African rainforests remains scarce. We used
phylogeography to assess (i) the role of Pleistocene climatic oscillations in the diversification …