Effective population size (Ne) is a crucial parameter in the fields of evolutionary biology, conservation biology of endangered species, and selective breeding of domestic animals and crops, as it qua...

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Islands serve as natural laboratories for studying evolution. In fast-flowing rivers, rapids and waterfalls are discrete rocky habitats, acting as insular freshwater landscape units. In the Neotropic...

Aim Biological and geographic patterns and processes are linked such that biological data hold information on paleogeographical patterns and processes. Here, we aimed to test Biogeographic dating as.....

Aim Biological and geographic patterns and processes are linked such that biological data hold information on paleogeographical patterns and processes. Here, we aimed to test Biogeographic dating as...

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GRADUATE STUDENTS I will be recruiting a PhD student for Fall of 2026. This position is under an NSF funded grant for research in Panama, Costa Rica, and Colombia, aiming to investigate the timing...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Whole-genome plant sequencing is heavily biased towards species from temperate regions and species with utilitarian values. An expansion of efforts to include tropical...

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

In this lesson we consider the ways in which LLMs are already transforming education for better or, more often, worse—and take a look at where this trend might be headed.

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The New Manual Project More than 30 years ago, former New York Botanical Garden scientist Arthur Cronquist updated the Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, orig...

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Premise Centropogon subgenus Centropogon comprises 55 species found primarily in midelevation Andean forests featuring some of the most curved flowers among angiosperms. Floral curvature is linked t.....

Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question a...

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