Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria

G Albani Rocchetti, A Carta, A Mondoni, S Godefroid… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Resurrecting extinct species is a fascinating and challenging idea for scientists and the
general public. Whereas some theoretical progress has been made for animals, the …

Karyotypic diversity: a neglected trait to explain angiosperm diversification?

A Carta, M Escudero - Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary changes in karyotype provide genetic support to organisms' differentiation and
adaptation; however, the association between karyotype diversity and species diversification …

Spatial heterogeneity of extinction risk for flowering plants in China

L Zhao, J Li, RL Barrett, B Liu, H Hu, L Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the variability of extinction risk and its potential drivers across different spatial
extents is crucial to revealing the underlying processes of biodiversity loss and …

Global patterns of plumage color evolution in island-living passeriform birds

MD Oud, SM Mahoney, C Pageau, MA de Menezes… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Island environments have the potential to change evolutionary trajectories of morphological
traits in species relative to their mainland counterparts due to habitat and resource …

Habitats hold an evolutionary signal of past climatic refugia

MB García, H Miranda, M Pizarro, X Font… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Climatic refugia have often been associated with hotspots of richness and endemism, and
identified on the basis of molecular or paleobotanical information. Here, we apply a …

Evolutionary lability of food caching behaviour in mammals

SM Mahoney, B Pasch - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Food hoarding provides animals access to resources during periods of scarcity. Studies on
mammalian caching indicate associations with brain size, seasonality and diet but are …

Exploring the Climatic Niche Evolution of the Genus Falco (Aves: Falconidae) in Europe

SM Popescu, C Tigae, A Dobrițescu, DM Ștefănescu - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Falcons are keystone species that maintain ecosystem structures,
functions, and services. With the help of phylogenetic comparative methods, climatic data …

Habitats hold an evolutionary signal of past climatic refugia

MB García González, H Miranda, M Pizarro Gavilán… - 2022 - digital.csic.es
Climatic refugia have often been associated with hotspots of richness and endemism, and
identified on the basis of molecular or paleobotanical information. Here, we apply a …