The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests

Spatial sampling heterogeneity limits the detectability of deep time latitudinal biodiversity gradients

(2021) Lewis A. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate and geological change as drivers of Mauritiinae palm biogeography

(2021) Giovanni Bogotá‐Ángel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

(2021) Mónica R. Carvalho et al.   SCIENCE

Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of diversification histories

(2020) Stilianos Louca et al.   NATURE

A revision of Calamus (Arecaceae, Calamoideae, Calameae, Calaminae)

(2020) ANDREW HENDERSON   Phytotaxa

Eocene palms from central Myanmar in a South-East Asian and global perspective: evidence from the palynological record

(2020) Huasheng Huang et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families

(2020) Santiago Ramírez-Barahona et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

(2020) Thomas L.P. Couvreur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years

(2020) Thomas Westerhold et al.   SCIENCE

Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia

(2020) N. Barbolini et al.   Science Advances

CoordinateCleaner: standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases

(2019) Alexander Zizka et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The r package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data

(2019) Ádám T. Kocsis et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Niche conservatism drives a global discrepancy in palm species richness between seasonally dry and moist habitats

(2019) Cibele Cássia-Silva et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate sensitivity on geological timescales controlled by non‐linear feedbacks and ocean circulation

(2019) A. Farnsworth et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database of palms worldwide

(2019) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   Scientific Data

The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity-diversity relationship

(2018) David Storch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reconstructing deep-time palaeoclimate legacies in the clusioid Malpighiales unveils their role in the evolution and extinction of the boreotropical flora

(2018) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Roles of climate niche conservatism and range dynamics in woody plant diversity patterns through the Cenozoic

(2018) Takayuki Shiono et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models

(2018) Katherine L. Yates et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Linking species diversification to palaeo-environmental changes: A process-based modelling approach

(2017) Patrice Descombes et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Lineage-specific climatic niche drives the tempo of vicariance in the Rand Flora

(2017) Mario Mairal et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on the Hawaiian archipelago

(2017) Jun Y. Lim et al.   NATURE

Plant phylogeny as a window on the evolution of hyperdiversity in the tropical rainforest biome

(2017) Wolf L. Eiserhardt et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

(2017) Gavin L. Foster et al.   Nature Communications

Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms

(2017) Renske E. Onstein et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Heterogeneity in global vegetation and terrestrial climate change during the late Eocene to early Oligocene transition

(2017) Matthew J. Pound et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenetics and diversification history of African rattans (Calamoideae, Ancistrophyllinae)

(2016) Adama Faye et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Testing the Biases in the Rich Cenozoic Angiosperm Macrofossil Record

(2016) Yaowu Xing et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

spThin: an R package for spatial thinning of species occurrence records for use in ecological niche models

(2015) Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A revised delimitation of the rattan genus Calamus (Arecaceae)

(2015) William J Baker   Phytotaxa

Global diversification of a tropical plant growth form: environmental correlates and historical contingencies in climbing palms

(2015) Thomas L. P. Couvreur et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants

(2014) Michael J. Donoghue et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   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

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

Integrating Fossils, Phylogenies, and Niche Models into Biogeography to Reveal Ancient Evolutionary History: The Case of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)

(2014) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity forMaxentecological niche models

(2014) Robert Muscarella et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global Warming and Neotropical Rainforests: A Historical Perspective

(2013) Carlos Jaramillo et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Tropical rain forest evolution: palms as a model group

(2013) Thomas LP Couvreur et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A practical guide to MaxEnt for modeling species’ distributions: what it does, and why inputs and settings matter

(2013) Cory Merow et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change

(2013) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

(2012) L. Banin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. II. Diversification history and origin of regional assemblages

(2012) William J. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Grimsdalea magnaclavataGermeraad, Hopping & Muller: an enigmatic pollen type from the Neogene of northern South America

(2012) David T. Pocknall et al.   PALYNOLOGY

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

Global Gradients in Vertebrate Diversity Predicted by Historical Area-Productivity Dynamics and Contemporary Environment

(2012) Walter Jetz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Methods in Biogeography

(2011) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Origin and global diversification patterns of tropical rain forests: inferences from a complete genus-level phylogeny of palms

(2011) Thomas LP Couvreur et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

The Molecular Phylogenetic Signature of Clades in Decline

(2011) Tiago B. Quental et al.   PLoS One

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

A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

(2010) Jane Elith et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Hypothesis testing in biogeography

(2010) Michael D. Crisp et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The art of modelling range-shifting species

(2010) Jane Elith et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The climbing habit in palms: Biomechanics of the cirrus and flagellum

(2008) Sandrine Isnard et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY