Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic diversity and alpine specialization across the alpine flora of the American mountain range system

HF Figueroa, HE Marx, MB de Souza Cortez, CJ Grady… - Alpine Botany, 2022 - Springer
Although mountainous habitats contribute substantially to global biodiversity, comparatively
little is known about biogeographic patterns of distributions of alpine species across multiple …

Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation among peaks in the Cascade Range of Washington

EW Ertsgaard, NL Gjording, JD Bakker, JA Kleinkopf… - PloS one, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Alpine areas are host to diverse plant communities that support ecosystems through
structural and floral resources and persist through specialized adaptations to harsh high …

Insight into the assembly process of angiosperms and arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi in tropical wetland ecosystems

MP Mañé-Duarte, P Guadarrama… - Plant Ecology & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background The interaction between plants and mycorrhizal fungi is one of the most
important and well-studied in ecology. However, the manner in which ecological …

Redefining the phylogenetic relationships of European Angelica (Apiaceae) species

C González-Toral, A Estandía, M Pérez… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Angelica (Apiaceae) is a large complex genus with high morphological diversity. The many
taxonomic treatments explain the controversy regarding the number of European species …

The effects of evolutionary and environmental variance on estimates of phylogenetic diversity in temperate forest plots

Y Xu, JJ Liu, HN Li, J Liu, KS Burgess… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims Phylogenetic diversity metrics can discern the relative contributions of ecological and
evolutionary processes associated with the assembly of plant communities. However, the …

PhyloPlus: a Universal Tool for Phylogenetic Interrogation of Metagenomic Communities

X Huang, DL Erickson, J Meng - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Phylogeny is a powerful tool that can be incorporated into quantitative descriptions of
community diversity, yet its use has been limited largely due to the difficulty in constructing …

Improvements in the phylogeny of Epilobium and Chamaenerion inferred from nrDNA and cpDNA data focusing on Türkiye

S Kundakçi, S Makbul, M Gültepe… - Turkish Journal of …, 2023 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
Epilobium and Chamaenerion included 165 and 8 species over the world, respectively. The
members of the genera are distributed particularly in moist habitats from subpolar to tropical …

Food Safety in the Era of Next-Generation Sequencing: Genomic Characterization of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli and Metagenomic Surveillance of …

X Huang - 2023 - search.proquest.com
In this study, we first utilized high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) and
bioinformatic analyses to characterize potential public health threats posed by non-top-7 …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating the Potential Effect of Pollinators on the Alpine Plant Diversity of the Southern Rocky Mountains: A Community Phylogenetic Approach

J Westerman - 2023 - digitalrepository.unm.edu
The alpine plant community can be surprisingly diverse when compared to surrounding
lowland areas, however, the drivers of this diversity remain understudied. In this study, the …