The complex taxonomy and biogeography of the highly polytypic and widespread gentle
monkey Cercopithecus mitis continue to be debated. Tanzania and Kenya, together, support …

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 …

Accelerating climate change and habitat loss make it imperative that plans to conserve
biodiversity consider species' ability to adapt to changing environments. However, in biomes …

Background Quaternary climate fluctuations have been acknowledged as major drivers of
the geographical distribution of the extraordinary biodiversity observed in tropical biomes …

Paleo-environmental reconstructions show that the distribution of tropical African rain forests
was affected by Quaternary climate changes. They suggest that the Dahomey Gap (DG) …

Baboons (genus Papio) have been proposed as a possible analogous phylogeographic
model for intra-African dispersal of hominins during the Pleistocene. Previous studies of the …

The evolutionary history of African ungulates has been explained largely in the light of
Pleistocene climatic oscillations and the way these influenced the distribution of vegetation …

Tropical rain forests support a remarkable diversity of tree species, questioning how and
when this diversity arose. The genus Guibourtia (Fabaceae, Detarioideae), characterized by …

Aim Palaeoecological records indicate that Pleistocene glaciations affected the African rain
forest, probably causing its fragmentation, which could explain phylogeographical breaks …

Aim Species with wide distributions spanning the African Guinean and Congolian rain
forests are often composed of genetically distinct populations or cryptic species with …