Since the last classification of Orchidaceae in 2003, there has been major progress in the
determination of relationships, and we present here a revised classification including a list of …

One central concept in island biology is that island assemblages form subsets of the
mainland species pool, being disproportionately rich or poor in certain taxonomic groups …

Characterizing the architecture of bipartite networks is increasingly used as a framework to
study biotic interactions within their ecological context and to assess the extent to which …

Background and aims–The Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar project aims to
evaluate and enumerate the native and naturalized vascular plant flora of Madagascar. In …

Island disharmony refers to the biased representation of higher taxa on islands compared to
their mainland source regions and represents a central concept in island biology. Here, we …

In this year celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Darwin and the sesquicentennial of the
publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the present paper aims to assess the …

Abstract Background and Aims Pollinator-mediated selection and evolution of floral traits
have long fascinated evolutionary ecologists. No other plant family shows as wide a range of …

The extraordinary diversity of orchids has captivated scientists for more than a century, yet
their complex spatial patterns at large scales remain poorly resolved. On islands, orchid …

The pantropical orchid genus Polystachya is the subject of ongoing taxonomic work. We
inferred phylogenetic relationships in the genus using 5.3 kb of plastid DNA, for 83 out of ca …

The concept of coevolution was first developed by Darwin, who used it to explain how
pollinators and food-rewarding flowers involved in specialized mutualisms could, over time …