Evolutionary plant radiations: where, when, why and how?

Measuring the tempo of plant death and birth

(2015) Karl J. Niklas   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Back to the past: a new take on the timing of flowering plant diversification

(2015) Michael J. Sanderson   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Process and pattern in cichlid radiations - inferences for understanding unusually high rates of evolutionary diversification

(2015) Ole Seehausen   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogenetics and molecular clocks reveal the repeated evolution of ant-plants after the late Miocene in Africa and the early Miocene in Australasia and the Neotropics

(2015) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Topography as a driver of diversification in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

(2015) G. Anthony Verboom et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The evolutionary reality of species and higher taxa in plants: a survey of post-modern opinion and evidence

(2015) Timothy G. Barraclough et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Adaptive radiation versus ‘radiation’ and ‘explosive diversification’: why conceptual distinctions are fundamental to understanding evolution

(2015) Thomas J. Givnish   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

On the complexity of triggering evolutionary radiations

(2015) Yanis Bouchenak-Khelladi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperate radiations and dying embers of a tropical past: the diversification ofViburnum

(2015) Elizabeth L. Spriggs et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Confluence, synnovation, and depauperons in plant diversification

(2015) Michael J. Donoghue et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Recently evolved diversity and convergent radiations of rainforest mahoganies (Meliaceae) shed new light on the origins of rainforest hyperdiversity

(2015) Erik J. M. Koenen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The ubiquity of alpine plant radiations: from the Andes to the Hengduan Mountains

(2015) Colin E. Hughes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nested radiations and the pulse of angiosperm diversification: increased diversification rates often follow whole genome duplications

(2015) David C. Tank et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

When do plant radiations influence community assembly? The importance of historical contingency in the race for niche space

(2015) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity

(2015) Susana Magallón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

FOSSILS AND A LARGE MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY SHOW THAT THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES RICHNESS, GENERIC DIVERSITY, AND TURNOVER RATES ARE DISCONNECTED

(2014) Yaowu Xing et al.   EVOLUTION

The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish

(2014) David Brawand et al.   NATURE

Presence in Mediterranean hotspots and floral symmetry affect speciation and extinction rates in Proteaceae

(2014) Elisabeth Reyes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Three explanations for biodiversity hotspots: small range size, geographical overlap and time for species accumulation. An Australian case study

(2014) Lyn G. Cook et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

As old as the mountains: the radiations of the Ericaceae

(2014) Orlando Schwery et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Green Web or megabiased clock? Plant fossils from Gondwanan Patagonia speak on evolutionary radiations

(2014) Peter Wilf et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multiple shifts to different pollinators fuelled rapid diversification in sexually deceptiveOphrysorchids

(2014) Hendrik Breitkopf et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Recovering speciation and extinction dynamics based on phylogenies

(2013) T. Stadler   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptive radiation, correlated and contingent evolution, and net species diversification in Bromeliaceae

(2013) Thomas J. Givnish et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Exploring the tempo of species diversification in legumes

(2013) E.J.M. Koenen et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

(2013) Santiago Madriñán et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Neotropical Plant Evolution: Assembling the Big Picture

(2012) Colin E. Hughes et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ancient whole genome duplications, novelty and diversification: the WGD Radiation Lag-Time Model

(2012) M Eric Schranz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation

(2012) Catherine E. Wagner et al.   NATURE

Multiple Continental Radiations and Correlates of Diversification in Lupinus (Leguminosae): Testing for Key Innovation with Incomplete Taxon Sampling

(2012) Christopher S. Drummond et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Understanding angiosperm diversification using small and large phylogenetic trees

(2011) S. A. Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Multiple routes to mammalian diversity

(2011) Chris Venditti et al.   NATURE

Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages

(2011) M. Arakaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation

(2010) C. Jaramillo et al.   SCIENCE

Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification

(2009) Douglas E. Soltis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Thinking in continua: beyond the “adaptive radiation” metaphor

(2009) Mark E. Olson et al.   BIOESSAYS

Global Miocene tectonics and the modern world

(2009) Paul Edwin Potter et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Adaptation and diversification on islands

(2009) Jonathan B. Losos et al.   NATURE

Darwin's second “abominable mystery”: Why are there so many angiosperm species?

(2008) William L. Crepet et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Plant species radiations: where, when, why?

(2008) H. P. Linder   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES