Barnabas H. Daru

Climate and regional plant richness drive diet specialization in butterfly caterpillars

This study examines how climate and regional plant richness influence diet specialization in butterfly caterpillars using global distribution data.

Late Quaternary climate-driven shifts in arctic plant distributions

This study quantifies climate-driven changes in Arctic plant diversity during the Late Quaternary by analyzing species distribution shifts and climatic data.

Understanding the biogeographic processes behind the accumulation of modern-day marine biodiversity.

The paper investigates biogeographic processes driving marine biodiversity accumulation by analyzing ancestral range reconstructions across four marine taxa.

Vascular plant extinctions outpace colonizations under climate change

The paper projects future vascular plant range shifts under climate change and finds extinctions will outpace colonizations, highlighting complex interactions beyond simple latitudinal movements.

A spatially explicit delineation of transition zones for biogeographic regionalization

This paper introduces a framework to identify and analyze biogeographic transition zones using a new metric, the Transition Zone Index (TZI), and applies it to vascular plants in southern Africa.

phyloregion: R package for biogeographic regionalization and spatial conservation

The paper introduces phyloregion, an R package for biogeographic regionalization and spatial conservation analysis, offering faster and more scalable solutions for large phylogenetic datasets.