Aim Identifying and protecting refugia is a priority for conservation under projected
anthropogenic climate change, because of their demonstrated ability to facilitate the survival …

Plant speciation and diversification strongly rely on structural changes in the nuclear
genome, both at the whole ploidy and individual chromosome level. Phylogenetic …

In Alien Species and Evolution, biologist George W. Cox reviews and synthesizes emerging
information on the evolutionary changes that occur in plants, animals, and microbial …

Polyploidy, or whole genome duplication, is recognized as an important feature of eukaryotic
genome evolution. Among eukaryotes, polyploidy has probably had the largest evolutionary …

" All paleoscientists working in the region will want this book because it brings in so much
new material and includes so many new interpretations. This is a grand synthesis and it …

Aim Climatic conditions exert a strong control on the geographic distribution of many
woodland‐to‐grassland transition zones (or 'tree lines'). Because woody plants have, in …

The present paper reviews advances in the study of two major intercontinental disjunct
biogeographic patterns:(i) between Eurasian and western North American deserts with the …

State-and-transition models are increasingly being used to guide rangeland management.
These models provide a relatively simple, management-oriented way to classify land …

The western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) is a prominent member of North
American desert and semi-arid ecosystems, and its importance extends from its impact on …

For decades, ecologists have hypothesised that exposure to plant secondary compounds
(PSCs) modifies herbivore‐associated microbial community composition. This notion has …