Browsing by Subject "biogeography"
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100 years of primate paleontology.
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A worldwide phylogeny of Adiantum (Pteridaceae) reveals remarkable convergent evolution in leaf blade architecture
(Taxon, 2018-06-01)© International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) 2018, All rights reserved. Adiantum is among the most distinctive and easily recognized leptosporangiate fern genera. Despite encompassing an astonishing range of leaf ... -
Convergent evolution in lemur environmental niches
(Journal of Biogeography, 2020-04-01)Aim: To test the hypothesis that adaptive convergent evolution of climate niches occurred in multiple independent lemur lineages. Location: Madagascar. Taxon: Lemurs. Methods: I collected climate and altitude data from WorldClim ... -
Mainland size variation informs predictive models of exceptional insular body size change in rodents.
(Proc Biol Sci, 2015-07-07)The tendency for island populations of mammalian taxa to diverge in body size from their mainland counterparts consistently in particular directions is both impressive for its regularity and, especially among rodents, troublesome ... -
Systematics and Ecology of Truffles (Tuber)
(2009)The truffle genus Tuber (Ascomycota, Pezizales, Tuberaceae) produces underground mushrooms widely sought as edible fungi. Tuber species are distributed throughout Northern hemisphere forests and form obligate ectomycorrhizal ... -
Volume and Geographical Distribution of Ecological Research in the Andes and the Amazon, 1995-2008
(2011)The Andes range and the Amazon basin represent the most diverse biological community on earth and the largest tropical forest on earth, respectively, but they are historically understudied by biologists. In this paper we ...
