Background Conservation through reserves alone is now considered unlikely to achieve
protection of plant species necessary to mitigate direct losses of habitat and the pervasive …

Characterizations of plant genetic resources based on molecular markers have been
increased in the last years. Studies using a broad range of markers applied on hundreds of …

Orchids, one of the largest families of flowering plants, face an uncertain future through
overexploitation, habitat loss and impacts of climate change. With their intricate abiotic and …

Understanding the many factors that affect community composition and coexistence of
species in natural environments is one of the central goals in ecology. As germination and …

Caladenia is very unusual in that it contains species that attract pollinators by two different
strategies, food and sexual deception. Among the sexually deceptive species, baiting for …

Aim Phylogeographical studies in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF) have mostly included
species associated with forest habitats, whereas taxa associated with grassland and sand …

In natural plant populations, fine‐scale spatial genetic structure can result from limited gene
flow, selection pressures or historical events, but the role of each factor is in general hard to …

Phylogeographic studies provide an important framework for investigating the mechanisms
operating during the earliest stages of speciation, as reproductive barriers can be examined …

Nonrandom species–species associations may arise from a range of factors, including
localized dispersal, intra‐and interspecific interactions and heterogeneous environmental …

Knowledge about seed dispersal is required to explain problems in ecology,
phylogeography, and conservation biology. Even though seed dispersal is a fundamental …