S. Ramirez Barahona

An Open and Continuously Updated Fern Tree of Life

This paper develops an open, continuously updated fern tree of life using DNA sequence data from GenBank, increasing species coverage by 40% and providing new age estimates for fern clades.

A global phylogenetic regionalisation of vascular plants reveals a deep split between Gondwanan and Laurasian biotas

This paper uses phylogenetic data to delineate global vascular plant regions, finding a deep split between Gondwanan and Laurasian biotas and identifying three major biotas.

Diversity of an uncommon elastic hypersaline microbial mat along a small-scale transect

The paper assesses microbial diversity and metabolome profiles in a hypersaline microbial mat across a small transect, revealing low taxonomic diversity and distinct metabolomic signatures.