Africa is forecasted to experience large and rapid climate change and population growth
during the twenty-first century, which threatens the world's second largest rainforest …

Determining where species diversify (cradles) and persist (museums) over evolutionary time
is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity and for conservation …

The rapid diversification and high species richness of flowering plants is regarded as
'Darwin's second abominable mystery'. Today the global spatiotemporal pattern of plant …

Chromosome number and genome variation in flowering plants have stimulated growing
speculation about the ancestral chromosome number of angiosperms, but estimates so far …

Abstract Background and Aims Interactions between ecological factors and seed
physiological responses during the establishment phase shape the distribution of plants …

With the increased availability of sequence data and even of fully sequenced and
assembled genomes, phylogeny estimation of very large trees (even of hundreds of …

Tropical alpine floras are renowned for high endemism, spectacular giant rosette plants
testifying to convergent adaptation to harsh climates with nightly frosts, and recruitment …

Premise The economically important, cosmopolitan soapberry family (Sapindaceae)
comprises ca. 1900 species in 144 genera. Since the seminal work of Radlkofer, several …

Ploidy level and genome size (GS) could affect the invasive capacity of plants, although
these parameters can be contradictory. While small GS seems to favor dispersion …

The bootstrap method is based on resampling sequence alignments and re-estimating trees.
Felsenstein's bootstrap proportions (FBP) are the most common approach to assess the …