The late rise of sky-island vegetation in the European Alps
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F25%3A10512906" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/25:10512906 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_MJiDjBH5S" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_MJiDjBH5S</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02001-0" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41477-025-02001-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The late rise of sky-island vegetation in the European Alps
Original language description
Our understanding of the emergence of mountain floras rests on our ability to infer how orogeny, landscape dynamics and climate change altered their evolutionary trajectories. Here we reconstruct the assembly of the diverse sky-island flora of the European Alps and test the impact of key geo-climatic events. We use a dated 5,231-species phylogeny, including 96% of the sky-island flora. The assembly of this flora occurred through the colonization of over a thousand distinct lineages, of which 46% speciated from their lowland or non-Alpine ancestor and 6% underwent in situ cladogenesis. The young ages of extant sky-island lineages show that their accumulation was decoupled from ancient geo-climatic events but accelerated throughout the Plio-Pleistocene. The sky-island vegetation therefore assembled through recent lineage turnover, which was triggered, rather than impeded, by Pleistocene glacial intensification. This perspective challenges previous assumptions and highlights the complex interplay of geo-climatic factors in shaping the intricate tapestry of alpine floras.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Plants
ISSN
2055-026X
e-ISSN
2055-0278
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
1142-1153
UT code for WoS article
001500678500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105007150934