Thaís Vasconcelos

The paper analyzes global flower color diversity using community science data, finding a latitudinal gradient in color diversity and associations with climate and pollination strategies.

The paper investigates how vegetative and reproductive traits contribute to habitat shifts in Neotropical Myrtaceae, finding vegetative traits act as enablers while reproductive traits show both enabler and adaptive patterns.

The paper tests if herbarium measurements can reliably predict fresh plant traits in Neotropical Myrtaceae, finding they can when organ-specific responses are considered.

The paper examines evolutionary correlations among reproductive traits in neotropical myrtles, finding hierarchical constraints and trade-offs between flowers, fruits, and seeds.

This study investigates how sociality and nesting strategy influence the bimodal latitudinal diversity gradient in bees, finding that social and above-ground nesting traits are linked to narrow climatic niches and prevalence in tropical regions.

The paper identifies geographic and taxonomic gaps in knowledge for stingless bees in the Amazon basin, highlighting the need for improved data collection and digitization.

The paper introduces an R package called mvh for assembling and organizing virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images, achieving a 99% success rate in downloading images.

The paper investigates historical causes for the latitudinal polyploidy gradient by analyzing ploidy states and ancestral niches across four plant clades.

The paper uses hidden Markov models to show that trait change rates, not static traits, predict diversification rates in flowering plants.

This study constructs a taxonomically verified molecular supermatrix for Neotropical Myrteae, inferring a time-calibrated phylogenetic tree and identifying sampling gaps.