Abstract The East Asian flora (EAF) is a key biodiversity hotspot for understanding the origin
and evolution of Northern Hemisphere floras, but there is an ongoing debate on whether it is …

The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

In historical biogeography, model-based inference methods for reconstructing the evolution
of geographic ranges on phylogenetic trees are poorly developed relative to the diversity of …

Background Bayesian relaxed-clock dating has significantly influenced our understanding of
the timeline of biotic evolution. This approach requires the use of priors on the branching …

Temperate woody plants in the Northern Hemisphere have long been known to exhibit high
species richness in East Asia and North America and significantly lower diversity in Europe …

Aim Determining which species are more prone to extinction is vital for conserving E arth's
biodiversity and for providing insight into macroevolutionary processes. This paper utilizes …

Abstract In macroevolution, the Red Queen (RQ) model posits that biodiversity dynamics
depend mainly on species-intrinsic biotic factors such as interactions among species or life …

A clade's evolutionary history is shaped, in part, by geographical range expansion,
sweepstakes dispersal and local extinction. A rigorous understanding of historical …

Classification of tribe Cardueae in natural subtribes has always been a challenge due to the
lack of support of some critical branches in previous phylogenies based on traditional …

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 …