• The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated 

      Kandziora, Martha; Gehrke, Berit; Popp, Magnus; Gizaw, Abel; Brochmann, Christian; Pirie, Michael David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Tropical alpine floras are renowned for high endemism, spectacular giant rosette plants testifying to convergent adaptation to harsh climates with nightly frosts, and recruitment dominated by long-distance dispersal from ...
    • History and evolution of the afroalpine fora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg 

      Brochmann, Christian; Gizaw, Abel; Chala, Desalegn; Kandziora, Martha; Eilu, Gerald; Popp, Magnus; Pirie, Michael David; Gehrke, Berit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The monumental work of Olov Hedberg provided deep insights into the spectacular and fragmented tropical alpine flora of the African sky islands. Here we review recent molecular and niche modelling studies and re-examine ...
    • I Olov Hedbergs fotspor: Plantenes evolusjon i det afrikanske høyfjellet 

      Gehrke, Berit; Brochmann, Christian; Kandziora, Martha; Popp, Magnus; Gizaw, Abel; Pirie, Michael D. (Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen;28, Chapter, 2023-12)
      Floraen i det tropiske afrikanske høyfjellet er spektakulær og rik på endemiske (stedegne) arter, og ikke minst er forekomstene av plantearter ekstremt fragmentert på grunn av lange avstander mellom de enkelte fjellene ...
    • In search of Cape Ericas: - research visit to South Africa, October 2022 

      Pirie, Michael D.; Eriksson, Torsten; Kandziora, Martha; Nürk, Nicolai (Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen;28, Chapter, 2023-12)
      Visitors to the Arboretum’s heather garden will already be familiar with hardy heathers : the winter-flowering heather, Erica carnea, is particularly striking, producing carpets of flowers as early as February. At the other ...
    • Leaps and bounds: geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica 

      Pirie, Michael David; Kandziora, Martha; Nürk, Nicolai; Le Maitre, Nicholas C.; Mugrabi de Kuppler, Ana; Gehrke, Berit; Oliver, Edward G.H.; Bellstedt, Dirk U. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-05)
      Background The coincidence of long distance dispersal (LDD) and biome shift is assumed to be the result of a multifaceted interplay between geographical distance and ecological suitability of source and sink areas. Here, ...