R. Zenil-Ferguson

The paper uses ecological niche modeling to assess competition between native and naturalized ferns in Hawaiian dryland habitats, finding significant overlap and conservation risks.

The paper introduces a new model to analyze how dysploidy affects diversification in plants, finding two distinct modes of chromosomal evolution and speciation in Carex.

This study investigates the speciation patterns in lemurs, revealing multiple diversification bursts and high genomic introgression rates, which contribute to their diversity and have implications for conservation.

The paper examines chromosome number evolution in sundew plants, finding higher rates of single chromosome gain and loss in one subgenus compared to others, with no support for holocentromere or diploidization explanations.

This study investigates the diversification of Bomarea species in relation to Andean uplift, finding that speciation events correlate with mountain formation and climate changes during the Pleistocene.

This study synthesizes data from 152 studies on angiosperm diversification using SSE models, finding that trait effects vary across clades and dataset properties influence results.

The paper tests adaptive hypotheses about climatic adaptation in underground storage organs across Liliales, finding root tubers are associated with lower temperature seasonality.

The paper tests if hole-nesting in birds leads to reduced diversification rates, finding no such association and more frequent transitions out of hole-nesting.

The paper evaluates diversification rate estimation methods using simulations, introduces 'pulled rates', and discusses the reliability of macroevolutionary models.

The paper analyzes how breeding systems and ploidy levels in wild potato species influence niche adaptability by combining climate data with phylogenetic and genomic analyses.

The paper examines how ploidy and breeding system influence diversification rates in Solanaceae, finding that ploidy's effect is largely explained by its correlation with breeding system.

This paper critiques traditional phylogenetic comparative methods and proposes a new framework to address issues with unreplicated evolutionary events in comparative biology.