Luís Valente

The paper tests if land-bridge islands drive morphological changes in songbirds similar to oceanic islands, finding consistent trait shifts and increased body size across species.

This paper evaluates how neural networks can infer diversification mechanisms from phylogenies under evolutionary relatedness dependence, finding moderate classification accuracy and parameter identifiability issues.

The paper investigates factors driving uneven angiosperm diversity in the Canary Islands, finding trait-dependent diversification and spatio-ecological limits are key, not lineage age.

The paper identifies environmental correlates of plant growth forms in the Canary Islands, showing climatic seasonality and topographic complexity drive niche differentiation.

This paper introduces a neural network ensemble method for estimating diversification parameters from phylogenetic trees, showing improved performance and robustness compared to maximum likelihood estimation.