Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity

Functional traits are key to understanding orchid diversity on islands

(2021) Amanda Taylor et al.   ECOGRAPHY

EpiList 1.0: a global checklist of vascular epiphytes

(2021) Gerhard Zotz et al.   ECOLOGY

Long‐term community dynamics in vascular epiphytes on Annona glabra along the shoreline of Barro Colorado Island, Panama

(2021) Helena J. R. Einzmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evolution of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) as an escape from ecological niche conservatism in Malagasy Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)

(2021) Alexander Gamisch et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide

(2021) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Rapid radiation of angraecoids (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) in tropical Africa characterised by multiple karyotypic shifts under major environmental instability

(2021) João N.M. Farminhão et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Hemiepiphytes revisited

(2021) Gerhard Zotz et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

How much water is in the tank? An allometric analysis with 205 bromeliad species

(2020) Gerhard Zotz et al.   FLORA

What is a pseudobulb? – Towards a quantitative definition

(2020) Gerhard Zotz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Island disharmony revisited using orchids as a model group

(2019) Amanda Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

(2019) Patrick Weigelt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Islands in the trees: A biogeographic exploration of epiphyte-dwelling spiders

(2018) Francisco Emmanuel Méndez-Castro et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Comparing implementations of global and local indicators of spatial association

(2018) Roger S. Bivand et al.   TEST

Species richness and vertical distribution of ferns and lycophytes along an elevational gradient in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

(2017) Amparo R. Acebey et al.   FLORA

Phylogenetic climatic niche conservatism and evolution of climatic suitability in Neotropical Angraecinae (Vandeae, Orchidaceae) and their closest African relatives

(2017) Marta Kolanowska et al.   PeerJ

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity

(2016) Marcos B. Carlucci et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Fern and lycophyte communities at contrasting altitudes in Brazil’s subtropical Atlantic Rain Forest

(2016) Michelle Helena Nervo et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

The functional roles of epiphytes and arboreal soils in tropical montane cloud forests

(2016) Sybil G. Gotsch et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The formation of the oceanic temperate forests of New Zealand

(2016) MS McGlone et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Distribution of vascular epiphytes along a tropical elevational gradient: disentangling abiotic and biotic determinants

(2016) Yi Ding et al.   Scientific Reports

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Orchid phylogenomics and multiple drivers of their extraordinary diversification

(2015) Thomas J. Givnish et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Odd man out: why are there fewer plant species in African rain forests?

(2014) Thomas L. P. Couvreur   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

The systematic distribution of vascular epiphytes - a critical update

(2013) Gerhard Zotz   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Accounting for geographical variation in species-area relationships improves the prediction of plant species richness at the global scale

(2013) Katharina Gerstner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Light and desiccation responses of some Hymenophyllaceae (filmy ferns) from Trinidad, Venezuela and New Zealand: poikilohydry in a light-limited but low evaporation ecological niche

(2012) Michael C. F. Proctor   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Cenozoic imprints on the phylogenetic structure of palm species assemblages worldwide

(2012) W. D. Kissling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography in Bromeliaceae: Insights from an eight-locus plastid phylogeny

(2011) Thomas J. Givnish et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Contrasting environmental and regional effects on global pteridophyte and seed plant diversity

(2010) Holger Kreft et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Epiphyte diversity and biomass loads of canopy emergent trees in Chilean temperate rain forests: A neglected functional component

(2010) Iván A. Díaz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

How arboreal are epiphytes? A null model for Benzing's classifications

(2010) KC Burns   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Crassulacean Acid Metabolism and Epiphytism Linked to Adaptive Radiations in the Orchidaceae

(2009) K. Silvera et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Evidence for a Cenozoic radiation of ferns in an angiosperm-dominated canopy

(2009) E. Schuettpelz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

(2008) Robert J. Whittaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY