American Journal of Botany - 98 (3), 2011

Contents:

Peter H. Raven, Jonathan M. Chase, and J. Chris Pires
Introduction to special issue on biodiversity1

Alan Graham
The age and diversification of terrestrial New World ecosystems through Cretaceous and Cenozoic time

A. Jonathan Shaw, Péter Szövényi, and Blanka Shaw
Bryophyte diversity and evolution: Windows into the early evolution of land plants

Peter K. Endress
Evolutionary diversification of the flowers in angiosperms

Jill C. Preston, Lena C. Hileman, and Pilar Cubas
Reduce, reuse, and recycle: Developmental evolution of trait diversification

Stephen A. Smith, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Alexandros Stamatakis, and Michael J. Donoghue
Understanding angiosperm diversification using small and large phylogenetic trees

P. Roxanne Steele and J. Chris Pires
Biodiversity assessment: State-of-the-art techniques in phylogenomics and species identification

Meredith Blackwell
The Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 million species?

Noah Fierer and Jay T. Lennon
The generation and maintenance of diversity in microbial communities

Jonathan P. Price and Warren L. Wagner
A phylogenetic basis for species–area relationships among three Pacific Island floras

Jana C. Vamosi and Steven M. Vamosi
Factors influencing diversification in angiosperms: At the crossroads of intrinsic and extrinsic traits

Nathan G. Swenson
The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity

Brian J. McGill
Linking biodiversity patterns by autocorrelated random sampling

Andrew Gonzalez, Bronwyn Rayfield, and Zoë Lindo
The disentangled bank: How loss of habitat fragments and disassembles ecological networks

Zachary A. Sylvain and Diana H. Wall
Linking soil biodiversity and vegetation: Implications for a changing planet

Laura A. Burkle and Ruben Alarcón
The future of plant–pollinator diversity: Understanding interaction networks across time, space, and global change

Kristin I. Powell, Jonathan M. Chase, and Tiffany M. Knight
A synthesis of plant invasion effects on biodiversity across spatial scales

Lars A. Brudvig
The restoration of biodiversity: Where has research been and where does it need to go?

Janet Franklin, Helen M. Regan, Lauren A. Hierl, Douglas H. Deutschman, Brenda S. Johnson, and Clark S. Winchell
Planning, implementing, and monitoring multiple-species habitat conservation plans

Bradley J. Cardinale, Kristin L. Matulich, David U. Hooper, Jarrett E. Byrnes, Emmett Duffy, Lars Gamfeldt, Patricia Balvanera, Mary I. O’Connor, and Andrew Gonzalez
The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

Bin Wang, Hui Liao, Yao Zhao, Wei Li, and Zhiping Song
Microsatellite loci in Vallisneria natans (Hydrocharitaceae) and cross-reactivity with V. spinulosa and V. denseserrulata

Stein V. Servick, Pamela S. Soltis, and Douglas E. Soltis
Microsatellite marker development for Galax urceolata (Diapensiaceae)

Lluvia Flores-Rentería and Amy V. Whipple
A new approach to improve the scoring of mononucleotide microsatellite loci

Artem A. Pankin and Emil E. Khavkin
Genome-specific SCAR markers help solve taxonomy issues: A case study with Sinapis arvensis (Brassiceae, Brassicaceae)

Charlotte C. Germain-Aubrey, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, and Matthew A. Gitzendanner
Microsatellite marker development for the federally listed Prunus geniculata (Rosaceae)1

Hui Liao, Yao Zhao, Yin Zhou, Yuguo Wang, Xiaofan Wang, Fan Lu, and Zhiping Song
Microsatellite markers in the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Cucurbitaceae)

Xi-hui Xu, Ying Wan, Zhe-Chen Qi, Ying-xiong Qiu, and Cheng-Xin Fu
Isolation of compound microsatellite markers for the common Mediterranean shrub Smilax aspera (Smilacaceae)

Ramona Flatz, Jeremy B. Yoder, Edyth Lee-Barnes, and Christopher I. Smith
Characterization of microsatellite loci in Yucca brevifolia (Agavaceae) and cross-amplification in related species


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