• Influences of sea level changes and volcanic eruptions on Holocene vegetation in Tonga 

      Strandberg, Nichola A.; Edwards, Mary E.; Ellison, Joanna C.; Steinbauer, Manuel; Walentowitz, Anna; Fall, Patricia L.; Sear, David; Langdon, Peter G.; Cronin, Shane; Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro; Croudace, Ian W.; Prebble, Matiu; Gosling, William D.; Nogué, Sandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Here, we investigate Mid- to Late-Holocene vegetation changes in low-lying coastal areas in Tonga and how changing sea levels and recurrent volcanic eruptions have influenced vegetation dynamics on four islands of the ...
    • The seasonally dry tropical forest species Cavanillesia chicamochae has a middle Quaternary origin 

      Bacon, Christine D.; Gutiérrez-Pinto, Natalia; Flantua, Suzette; Castellanos Suárez, Diego; Jaramillo, Carlos; Pennington, R. Toby; Antonelli, Alexandre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We use DNA sequence data to understand the evolutionary history of the genus Cavanillesia (Malvaceae), with particular emphasis on C. chicamochae, an emblematic succulent-trunked tree endemic to seasonally dry tropical ...