Andean orogeny is considered as one of the most important events for the development of
current plant diversity in South America. We compare available phylogenetic studies and …

New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

Background New powerful biogeographic methods have focused attention on long-standing
hypotheses regarding the influence of the break-up of Gondwana on the biogeography of …

Gesneriaceae are represented in the New World (NW) by a major clade (c. 1000 species)
currently recognized as subfamily Gesnerioideae. Radiation of this group occurred in all …

We examined phylogeographic relationships in the cosmopolitan polypore fungus
Ganoderma applanatum and allies, and conservatively infer a possible age of origin for …

Despite a long‐standing belief that insect pollinators can select for certain flower colors,
there are few experimental demonstrations that free‐flying insects choose between natural …

Abstract Islands of the Pacific Ocean have long fascinated evolutionists. Oceanic islands,
generally the products of volcanic activity, provide natural experiments as biological …

Whole genome duplication or polyploidy is widespread among floras globally, but
traditionally has been thought to have played a minor role in the evolution of island …

New Zealand biogeography has been dominated by the knowledge that its geophysical
history is continental in nature. The continental crust (Zealandia) from which New Zealand is …

Biogeography of the tropical alpine flora of South and Central America, the páramo flora,
has been studied by dividing genera into tropical, temperate, and cosmopolitan chorological …