The May 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now free access. The cover image for this month is a flower that looks quite different, depending on where in the tropics you look at it. Why isn’t there a smooth variation in form as you travel round the world? Nie et al propose that the answer is because Paederia didn’t spread slowly overland.
So where do coconuts originate from - America or Asia?
Paederia is a pantropical genus of 31 species of woody lianas from the family Rubiaceae, with high species’ diversity in both tropical continental Asia and Africa and only two species in the tropical Americas. Nie et al...
Palms (Arecaceae) are an important element of tropical vegetation across the world and serve as a model system in geographical ecology.Eiserhardt et al. review how the abiotic environment, biotic interactions and...
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