Diversification of flowering plants in space and time

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 7609 - 16
• Main Authors: Dimitrov, Dimitar, Xu, Xiaoting, Su, Xiangyan, Shrestha, Nawal, Liu, Yunpeng, Kennedy, Jonathan D., Lyu, Lisha, Nogués-Bravo, David, Rosindell, James, Yang, Yong, Fjeldså, Jon, Liu, Jianquan, Schmid, Bernhard, Fang, Jingyun, Rahbek, Carsten, Wang, Zhiheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 22.11.2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158/670; 631/158/851; 631/181; 631/181/759/2467; 704/158/670; Angiosperms; Arid zones; Biological Evolution; Cenozoic; Cretaceous; Diversification; Ecology; Endangered & extinct species; Extinction, Biological; Flowering; Flowering plants; Humanities and Social Sciences; Life sciences; Magnoliophyta; Magnoliopsida - genetics; Mass extinctions; multidisciplinary; Museums; Paleogene; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Plant diversity; Plants; Plants (botany); Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Species extinction; Species richness; Trends; Tropical environments

The rapid diversification and high species richness of flowering plants is regarded as ‘Darwin’s second abominable mystery’. Today the global spatiotemporal pattern of plant diversification remains elusive. Using a newly generated genus-level phylogeny and global distribution data for 14,244 floweri...