Andrew J. Eckert

Traits and hidden states: is self-fertilization associated with rates of diversification across mating and sexual systems?

The paper examines how mating and sexual systems affect diversification rates across 18 plant families, finding that sexual systems better explain diversification than mating systems.

The evolutionary dynamics of plant mating systems: how bias for studying 'interesting' plant reproductive systems could backfire

The paper updates a dataset of plant mating systems across 6,781 species and identifies sampling biases that may overestimate self-fertilization frequency.

Polygenic adaptation and negative selection across traits, years and environments in a long-lived plant species (Pinus pinaster Ait., Pinaceae)

The paper estimates polygenicity and negative selection for fitness traits in maritime pine across environments and years, finding stable polygenicity and evidence of negative selection.