Pablo Vargas

TL;DR: The Cape has a higher species density than the Mediterranean Basin owing to a combination of older clade ages, high rates of diversification in certain lineages and an exceptionally high upper limit to diversity.

TL;DR: The divergent link patterns for the archipelagos imply that the highly nested Canarian network is stable against disassembly, whereas the modular Galapagos network may show strong resistance against extinction cascades.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that different forms of floral specialization can lead to dissimilar evolutionary success in terms of diversification and suggested that opposing individual-level and species-level selection pressures may have driven the evolution of pollinator-restrictive traits in bifid toadflaxes.

TL;DR: It is found that both abundance and richness of the dispersers significantly affect the function of seed dispersal and that richness becomes increasingly important as disperser abundance declines, and generalist species are essential to the persistence of the community dispersal service.

TL;DR: Canopy plasticity is both cause and consequence of the environment experienced by the plant and might lead to the differential expression of genetic polymorphisms among leaves, and it is proposed that it can contribute to buffer abiotic stress and to the partition of light use within the tree crown.