Evaluating the relative importance of predictors in Generalized Additive Models using the gam.hp R package
July 2024
Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) are widely employed in ecological research, serving as a powerful tool for ecologists to explore complex nonlinear relationships between a response variable and predictors....
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The mid-domain effect in flowering phenology
July 2024
The timing of flowering is an important driver of species distribution and community assembly patterns. However, we still have much to learn about the factors that shape flowering diversity (i.e., number...
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Strong evidence for latitudinal diversity gradient in mosses across the world
July 2024
Species richness generally decreases with increasing latitude, a biodiversity gradient that has long been considered as one of the few laws in ecology. This latitudinal diversity gradient has been observed...
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Progress in systematics and biogeography of Orchidaceae
July 2024
Orchidaceae are one of the largest families of angiosperms in terms of species richness. In the last decade, numerous studies have delved into reconstructing the phylogenetic framework of Orchidaceae,...
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Aboveground biomass stocks of species-rich natural forests in southern China are influenced by stand structural attributes, species richness and precipitation
July 2024
Forests, the largest terrestrial carbon sinks, play an important role in carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation. Although forest attributes and environmental factors have been shown to impact...
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Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of Phlomoides (Lamiaceae subfamily Lamioideae) in China: Insights from molecular and morphological data
July 2024
Phlomoides, with 150–170 species, is the second largest and perhaps most taxonomically challenging genus within the subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae). With about 60 species, China is one of three major...
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Origin and evolution of a new tetraploid mangrove species in an intertidal zone
July 2024
Polyploidy is a major factor in the evolution of plants, yet we know little about the origin and evolution of polyploidy in intertidal species. This study aimed to identify the evolutionary transitions...
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Increased dependence on nitrogen-fixation of a native legume in competition with an invasive plant
July 2024
Suppression of roots and/or their symbiotic microorganisms, such as mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia, is an effective way for alien plants to outcompete native plants. However, little is known about how...
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Comparative analysis shows high level of lineage sorting in genomic regions with low recombination in the extended Picea likiangensis species complex
July 2024
•Phylogenomic analysis uncovers widespread discordance in the extended Picea likiangensis complex.•Introgression (54.99%) and incomplete lineage sorting (ILS; 33.12%) are key drivers of this incongruity.•Recombination...
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Salicylic acid positively regulates maize defenses against lepidopteran insects
July 2024
In response to insect attack, plants use intricate signaling pathways, including phytohormones, such as jasmonate (JA), ethylene (ET), and salicylic acid (SA), to activate defenses. Maize (Zea mays)...
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Plastid phylogenomics provides new insights into the systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cymbidium (Orchidaceae)
July 2024
Cymbidium (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae), with around 60 species, is widely-distributed across Southeast Asia, providing a nice system for studying the processes that underlie patterns of biodiversity...
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Woody plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity decrease along elevational gradients in Andean tropical montane forests: Environmental filtering and arrival of temperate taxa
July 2024
Mountains are paramount for exploring biodiversity patterns due to the mosaic of topographies and climates encompassed over short distances. Biodiversity research has traditionally focused on taxonomic...
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A new infrageneric classification of Gastrochilus (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) based on molecular and morphological data
July 2024
Gastrochilus is an orchid genus containing 73 species of mainly epiphytic on trees or rocks in mountain forests of tropical and subtropical Asia. Previous phylogenetic analyses and morphological assessments...
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Seed dispersal by deception: a game between mimetic seeds and their bird dispersers
Available online 22 July 2024
Mimetic seeds attract birds to disperse seeds mainly by mimicking fleshy fruits or arillate seeds, however, they provide little nutritive reward for bird dispersers. The key characteristics of mimetic...
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Heterogeneous occurrence of evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia: Evidence from plant fossils
Available online 22 July 2024
Evergreen broad-leaved forests (EBLFs) are widely distributed in East Asia and play a vital role in ecosystem stability. The occurrence of these forests in East Asia has been a subject of debate across...
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Geographic patterns and ecological causes of phylogenetic structure in mosses along an elevational gradient in the central Himalaya
Available online 18 July 2024
Understanding the underlying mechanisms driving species assembly along elevational gradients is of great interest in ecology and biogeography. The Himalaya is one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity,...
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Does season regulate heterochronous leaf growth? Mechanisms of petiole-lamina trade-offs in broad-leaved woody plants of temperate montane forests
Available online 16 July 2024
As the core of leaf functional traits, the trade-off relationship between the petiole and lamina expresses the plant's adaptability to the environment in terms of support structure and photosynthesis....
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Phylogenomics, reticulation, and biogeographical history of Elaeagnaceae
Available online 14 July 2024
The angiosperm family Elaeagnaceae comprises three genera and ca. 100 species distributed mainly in Eurasia and North America. Little family-wide phylogenetic and biogeographic research on Elaeagnaceae...
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Geographic patterns and climatic drivers of the mean genus age of liverworts in North America
Available online 10 July 2024
Phylogenetic niche conservatism posits that species tend to retain ancestral ecological traits and distributions, which has been broadly tested for lineages originating in tropical climates but has...
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Detection of functional diversity gradients and their geoclimatic filters is sensitive to data types (occurrence vs. abundance) and spatial scales (sites vs. regions)
Available online 4 July 2024
Functional diversity (FD) reflects within- and between-site variation of species traits (α- and β-FD, respectively). Understanding how much data types (occurrence-based vs. abundance-weighted) and spatial...
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Skmer approach improves species discrimination in taxonomically problematic genus Schima (Theaceae)
Available online 21 June 2024
Genome skimming has dramatically extended DNA barcoding from short DNA fragments to next generation barcodes in plants. However, conserved DNA barcoding markers, including complete plastid genome and...
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Population genetic insights into the conservation of common walnut (Juglans regia) in Central Asia
Available online 17 June 2024
The common walnut (Juglans regia) is one of the most economically important nut trees cultivated worldwide. Despite its importance, no comprehensive evaluation of walnut tree population genetics has...
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Hydraulic properties and drought response of a tropical bamboo (Cephalostachyum pergracile)
May 2024
Bamboo plants are an essential component of tropical ecosystems, yet their vulnerability to climate extremes, such as drought, is poorly understood due to limited knowledge of their hydraulic properties....
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Comprehensive integration of single-cell transcriptomic data illuminates the regulatory network architecture of plant cell fate specification
May 2024
Plant morphogenesis relies on precise gene expression programs at the proper time and position which is orchestrated by transcription factors (TFs) in intricate regulatory networks in a cell-type specific...
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Molecular analyses display the increasing diversity of Podostemaceae in China
May 2024
•Four newly recorded species of Podostemaceae from southern China were identified by molecular and morphological evidence.•17 plastomes of Podostemaceae were newly sequenced and two novel polymorphic...
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