Madagascar is renowned for its unparalleled species richness and levels of endemism,
which have led, in combination with species extinction caused by an unprecedented rate of …

Savannas first began to spread across Africa during the Miocene. A major hypothesis for
explaining this vegetation change is the increase in C4 grasses, promoting fire. We …

A comprehensive and meaningful phylogenetic hypothesis for the commercially important
coffee genus (Coffea) has long been a key objective for coffee researchers. For molecular …

Divergence time analyses in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) have all relied on the same
Gentianales crown group age estimate, reported by an earlier analysis of the asterids, for …

The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at
the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858) …

Abstract Aim The Western Indian Ocean region (WIOR) is home to a very diverse and largely
unique flora that has mainly originated via long‐distance dispersals. The aim of this study is …

Dispersals have been shown to be critical to the evolution of the long isolated but
megadiverse flora of Madagascar and the surrounding islands of the western Indian Ocean …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The Western Indian Ocean Region (WIOR) is a biodiversity
hotspot providing an ideal setting for exploring the origins of insular biodiversity and …

Background Plukenetia is a small pantropical genus of lianas and vines with variably sized
edible oil-rich seeds that presents an ideal system to investigate neotropical and pantropical …

Abstract Background and Aims Pantropical intercontinental disjunction is a common
biogeographical pattern in flowering plants exhibiting a discontinuous distribution primarily …