Sequential diversification with Miocene extinction and Pliocene speciation linked to mountain uplift explains the diversity of the African rain forest clade Monodoreae …

LPMJ Dagallier, FL Condamine… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Throughout the Cenozoic, Africa underwent several climatic
and geological changes impacting the evolution of tropical rain forests (TRFs). African TRFs …

The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests

JY Lim, H Huang, A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Megathermal rain forests and mangroves are much smaller in extent today than in the
early Cenozoic, primarily owing to global cooling and drying trends since the Eocene …

The Paleogene to Neogene climate evolution and driving factors on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

J Zhao, S Li, A Farnsworth, PJ Valdes… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
The growth of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) during the Cenozoic drove dramatic
climate and environmental change in this region. However, there has been limited …

[HTML][HTML] 100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world

AA Chiarenza, AM Waterson, DN Schmidt, PJ Valdes… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Past responses to environmental change provide vital baseline data for estimating the
potential resilience of extant taxa to future change. Here, we investigate the latitudinal range …

An integrative framework reveals widespread gene flow during the early radiation of oaks and relatives in Quercoideae (Fagaceae)

SY Liu, YY Yang, Q Tian, ZY Yang, SF Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although the frequency of ancient hybridization across the Tree of Life is greater than
previously thought, little work has been devoted to uncovering the extent, timeline, and …

fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data

JT Flannery‐Sutherland, NB Raja… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil occurrence databases are indispensable resources to the palaeontological
community, yet present unique data cleaning challenges. Many studies devote significant …

Novel phylogenomic inference and 'Out of Asia'biogeography of cobras, coral snakes and their allies

JL Weinell, FT Burbrink, S Das… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Estimation of evolutionary relationships among lineages that rapidly diversified can be
challenging, and, in such instances, inaccurate or unresolved phylogenetic estimates can …

The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying “Patterson's Gap” in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018

M FRIEDMAN, JV ANDREWS, S Hadeel… - Geologica …, 2023 - popups.uliege.be
In contrast to the rich collections of articulated spiny-rayed fishes from early Late Cretaceous
and Eocene Lagerstätten, similar skeletal remains are sparse in Maastrichtian–Paleocene …

Corallite sizes of reef corals: decoupling of evolutionary and ecological trends

D Dimitrijević, NB Raja, W Kiessling - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Corallite sizes reflect a continuum in the efficacy of photosymbiosis in colonial reef corals,
with smaller corallite sizes generally associated with higher autotrophy. Using a large …

Controls on grain‐size distribution in an ancient sand sea

G Bertolini, AJ Hartley, JC Marques, JC Paim - Sedimentology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Grain‐size distribution in deserts is driven by a combination of autogenic controls such as
grain abrasion and sorting due to wind transport, and allogenic controls such as provenance …