• 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 ...
    • No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival 

      Louys, Julien; Braje, Todd J.; Chang, Chun-Hsiang; Cosgrove, Richard; Fitzpatrick, Scott M.; Fujita, Masaki; Hawkins, Stuart; Ingicco, Thomas; Kawamura, Ai; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; McDowell, Matthew C.; Meijer, Hanneke Johanna Maria; Piper, PJ; Roberts, Patrick; Simmons, Alan H.; Van den Bergh, Gerrit; Van der Geer, Alexandra; Kealy, Shimona; O'Connor, Sue (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna extinction is anthropogenic overhunting. A common ...