Global warming and associated precipitation changes will negatively impact on many
agricultural ecosystems. Major food production areas are expected to experience reduced …

The intricate and interconnecting reactions of C3 photosynthesis are often limited by one of
two fundamental processes: the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy, or the …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early
evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny …

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

The orchid family is renowned for its enormous diversity of pollination mechanisms and
unusually high occurrence of non-rewarding flowers compared to other plant families. The …

Background The highly derived morphology and astounding diversity of snakes has long
inspired debate regarding the ecological and evolutionary origin of both the snake total …

Through the lens of the fossil record, angiosperm diversification precipitated a Cretaceous
Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) in which pollinators, herbivores and predators underwent …

Angiosperms are among the major terrestrial radiations of life and a model group for
studying patterns and processes of diversification. As a tool for future comparative studies …

The observed diversity of dinosaurs reached its highest peak during the mid-and Late
Cretaceous, the 50 Myr that preceded their extinction, and yet this explosion of dinosaur …