Contrasting evolutionary hypotheses between two mediterranean-climate floristic hotspots: the Cape of southern Africa and the Mediterranean Basin

From Messinian crisis to Mediterranean climate: A temporal gap of diversification recovered from multiple plant phylogenies

(2013) Omar Fiz-Palacios et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Testing for Ecological Limitation of Diversification: A Case Study Using Parasitic Plants

(2012) Nate B. Hardy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Did Pollination Shifts Drive Diversification in Southern African Gladiolus? Evaluating the Model of Pollinator-Driven Speciation

(2012) Luis M. Valente et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A Conceptual and Statistical Framework for Adaptive Radiations with a Key Role for Diversity Dependence

(2012) Rampal S. Etienne et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant community structure after fire

(2012) Jonathan Silvertown et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Is regional species diversity bounded or unbounded?

(2012) Howard V. Cornell   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Disparity in the timing of vertebrate diversification events between the northern and southern hemispheres

(2012) Reid Tingley et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Climatic niche evolution and species diversification in the Cape flora, South Africa

(2012) Jan Schnitzler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rapid diversification ofTragopogonand ecological associates in Eurasia

(2012) C. D. Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Diversification rates and chromosome evolution in the most diverse angiosperm genus of the temperate zone (Carex, Cyperaceae)

(2012) Marcial Escudero et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Contrasting Biogeographic and Diversification Patterns in Two Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems

(2012) Sven Buerki et al.   PLoS One

Clade Age and Species Richness Are Decoupled Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life

(2012) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Effects of Above- and Belowground Mutualisms on Orchid Speciation and Coexistence

(2011) Richard J. Waterman et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Explaining disparities in species richness between Mediterranean floristic regions: a case study inGladiolus(Iridaceae)

(2011) Luis M. Valente et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Insights into Neogene Mediterranean biogeography based on phylogenetic relationships of mountain and lowland lineages ofNarcissus(Amaryllidaceae)

(2011) Rocío Santos-Gally et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate-driven rampant speciation of the Cape flora

(2011) Lydie M. Dupont et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A densely sampled ITS phylogeny of the Cape flagship genus Erica L. suggests numerous shifts in floral macro-morphology

(2011) Michael D. Pirie et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

How diversification rates and diversity limits combine to create large-scale species-area relationships

(2011) Y. Kisel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Historical Isolation versus Recent Long-Distance Connections between Europe and Africa in Bifid Toadflaxes (Linaria sect. Versicolores)

(2011) Mario Fernández-Mazuecos et al.   PLoS One

Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

(2011) R. S. Etienne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Causes Of Species Richness Patterns Across Space, Time, And Clades And The Role Of “Ecological Limits”

(2011) John J. Wiens   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Causes of Plant Diversification in the Cape Biodiversity Hotspot of South Africa

(2011) Jan Schnitzler et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas

(2011) Daniel L. Rabosky   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The uneven phylogeny and biogeography of Erodium (Geraniaceae): radiations in the Mediterranean and recent recurrent intercontinental colonization

(2010) Omar Fiz-Palacios et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Rise and fall of the Paratethys Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis

(2010) W. Krijgsman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence of recent and continuous speciation in a biodiversity hotspot: a population genetic approach in southern African gladioli (Gladiolus; Iridaceae)

(2010) PAUL D. RYMER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Radiative evolution of polyploid races of the Iberian carnation Dianthus broteri (Caryophyllaceae)

(2010) Francisco Balao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The pollination niche and its role in the diversification and maintenance of the southern African flora

(2010) S. D. Johnson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unparalleled rates of species diversification in Europe

(2010) L. M. Valente et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Patterns of extinction and persistence of Arctotertiary flora in Iberia during the Quaternary

(2010) José María Postigo-Mijarra et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Tracing the Temporal and Spatial Origins of Island Endemics in the Mediterranean Region: A Case Study from the Citrus Family (Ruta L., Rutaceae)

(2010) Gabriele Salvo et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolution and biogeography of Centaurea section Acrocentron inferred from nuclear and plastid DNA sequence analyses

(2009) M. Font et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   ECOLOGY LETTERS

DIVERSIFICATION OF THE AFRICAN GENUSPROTEA(PROTEACEAE) IN THE CAPE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT AND BEYOND: EQUAL RATES IN DIFFERENT BIOMES

(2009) Luis M. Valente et al.   EVOLUTION

Origin of Mediterranean insular endemics in the Boraginales: integrative evidence from molecular dating and ancestral area reconstruction

(2009) Guilhem Mansion et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Molecular inference of a Late Pleistocene diversification shift inNigellas. lat. (Ranunculaceae) resulting from increased speciation in the Aegean archipelago

(2009) Christiane Bittkau et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary history, biogeography and eco-climatological differentiation of the genusAnthemisL. (Compositae, Anthemideae) in the circum-Mediterranean area

(2009) Rosa Maria Lo Presti et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A geographical pattern ofAntirrhinum(Scrophulariaceae) speciation since the Pliocene based on plastid and nuclear DNA polymorphisms

(2009) Pablo Vargas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Temporal and spatial diversification of the African disjunct genus Androcymbium (Colchicaceae)

(2009) Alberto del Hoyo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Adaptive Radiation in Mediterranean Cistus (Cistaceae)

(2009) Beatriz Guzmán et al.   PLoS One

A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

(2009) G. Kier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns of diversity, endemism and distribution of bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Anthophila) in southern Africa

(2009) M. Kuhlmann   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Phylogeny of Linum and Linaceae Subfamily Linoideae, with Implications for Their Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Heterostyly

(2009) Joshua McDill et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Strait of Gibraltar: an effective gene-flow barrier for wind-pollinated Carex helodes (Cyperaceae) as revealed by DNA sequences, AFLP, and cytogenetic variation

(2008) M. Escudero et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The middle to late Miocene climatic development of Southwest Africa derived from the sedimentological record of ODP Site 1085A

(2008) Bastian Roters et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Cyclamen: time, sea and speciation biogeography using a temporally calibrated phylogeny

(2008) C. Yesson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns of plant speciation in the Cape floristic region

(2008) Timotheüs van der Niet et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Origin and diversification of the Greater Cape flora: Ancient species repository, hot-bed of recent radiation, or both?

(2008) G. Anthony Verboom et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Explaining the uniqueness of the Cape flora: Incorporating geomorphic evolution as a factor for explaining its diversification

(2008) Richard M. Cowling et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic Analysis Informed by Geological History Supports Multiple, Sequential Invasions of the Mediterranean Basin by the Angiosperm Family Araceae

(2008) Guilhem Mansion et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Density-Dependent Cladogenesis in Birds

(2008) Albert B Phillimore et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Evolution in Carex L. sect. Spirostachyae (Cyperaceae): A molecular and cytogenetic approach

(2007) M ESCUDERO et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION