2025
56- Daru BH & Zhigila DA (2025) Unlocking historical plant interactions in herbarium collections. Nature Reviews Biodiversity doi: 10.1038/s44358-025-00071-8
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55- Tomlinson KW, Yu F, Wang X, Yao X, Yu CC, Charles-Dominique T, Anést A, Zhao Y, Agung AP, Putra AA, Lapuz RS, Lefebvre T, Davies TJ, Hempson GP, Bezeng BS, Daru BH, Kabongo RM, Maurin O, Muasya AM, van der Bank M, Bond WJ, Arman M & Gélin U (2025) The macroecology of spines on woody plants. Biological Reviews doi: 10.1111/brv.70051
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54- Daru BH (2025) Tracking hidden dimensions of plant biogeography from herbaria. New Phytologist 246 61-77.
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53- Gross CP, Wright AM & Daru BH (2025) A global biogeographic regionalization for butterflies. Philosophical Transactions B 380: 20230211.
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52- Markley PT, Gross CP & Daru BH (2025) The changing biodiversity of the Arctic flora in the Anthropocene. American Journal of Botany 111: e16466.
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2024
51- Minev-Benzecry S & Daru BH (2024) Climate change alters the future of natural floristic regions of deep evolutionary origins. Nature Communications 15: 9474.
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50- Daru BH (2024) Predicting undetected native vascular plant diversity at a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 121: e23199891217.
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49- Daru BH (2024) A global database of butterfly species native distribution. Ecology 106: e4462.
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2023
48- Daru BH & Rodriguez J (2023) Mass production of unvouchered records fails to represent global biodiversity patterns. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 816–831.
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47- Gumbs R, Chaudhary A, Daru BH, Faith DP, Forest F, Gray CL, Kowalska A, Lee WS, Pellens R, Pollock LJ, Rosindell J, Scherson RA & Owen NR (2023) Indicators to monitor the status of the Tree of Life.
Conservation Biology 37: e14138.
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46- Daru BH & Rock BM (2023) Reorganization of seagrass communities in a changing climate. Nature Plants 9: 1034–1043.
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2022
45- Davies TJ, Maurin O, Yessoufou K, Daru BH, Bezeng BS, Mankga LT, Schaefer H, Thuiller W & van der Bank M (2022) Woody plant phylogenetic diversity supports nature's contributions to people but is at risk from human population growth.
Conservation Letters 15: e12914.
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2021
44- Daru BH, Willis CG, Meineke EK, Ronk A, Zobel M, Pärtel M, Antonelli A, Davies TJ & Davis CC (2021) Widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene. Nature Communications 12: 6983.
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43- Meineke EK & Daru BH (co-first author) (2021) Bias assessments to expand research harnessing biological collections. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 1071-1082.
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42- Rock BM & Daru BH (2021) Impediments to understanding seagrasses' response to global change. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 608867.
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41- Daru BH (2021) Migratory birds aid the redistribution of plants to new climates. Nature 595: 34-36.
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40- Daru BH (2021) Exploring a new way to think about climate regions.
eLife 10: e67422.
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2020
39- Daru BH, Farooq H, Antonelli A & Faurby S (2020) Endemism patterns are scale dependent. Nature Communications 11: 2115.
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38- Davies TJ, Daru BH, Bezeng BS, Charles-Dominique T, Hempson GP, Kabongo RM, Maurin O, Muasya AM, van der Bank M & Bond WJ (2020) Savanna tree evolutionary ages inform the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment of our hominin ancestors. Scientific Reports 10: 12430.
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37- Daru BH, Karunarathne P & Schliep K (2020) phyloregion: R package for biogeographic regionalization and macroecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1483-1491.
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2019
36- Daru BH, le Roux PC, Gopalraj J, Park DS, Holt BG & Greve M (2019) Spatial overlaps between the global protected areas network and terrestrial hotspots of evolutionary diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 757-766.
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35- Mathakutha R, Steyn C, le Roux PC, Blom IJ, Chown SL, Daru BH, Ripley BS, Louw A & Greve M (2019) Invasive species differ in key functional traits from native and non-invasive alien plant species. Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 994-1006. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12772
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34- Daru BH, Kling MM, Meineke EK & van Wyk AE (2019) Temperature controls phenology in continuously flowering Protea species of subtropical Africa. Applications in Plant Sciences 7: e1232. DOI: 10.1002/aps3.1232
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2018
33- Daru, B.H., Park, D.S., Primack, R.B., Willis, C.G., Barrington, D.S., Whitfeld, T.J.S., Seidler, T.G., Sweeney, P.W., Foster, D.R., Ellison, A.M. & Davis, C.C. (2018) Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. New Phytologist 217: 939-955. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14855
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32- Daru, B.H., Bowman, E.A., Pfister, D.H. & Arnold, A.E. (2018) A novel proof-of-concept for capturing the diversity of endophytic fungi preserved in herbarium specimens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374: 20170395. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0395
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31- Meineke, E.K., Davies, T.J., Daru, B.H. & Davis, C.C. (2018) Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374: 20170386. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0386
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2017
29- Daru, B.H., Elliott, T.L., Park, D.S. & Davies, T.J. (2017) Understanding the processes underpinning patterns of phylogenetic regionalization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 845-860. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.013PDF file 28- Daru, B.H., Holt, B.G., Lessard, J.P., Yessoufou, K. & Davies, T.J. (2017) Phylogenetic regionalization of marine plants reveals close evolutionary affinities among disjunct temperate assemblages. Biological Conservation 213: 351-356. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.08.022
PDF file 27- Daru, B.H., van der Bank, M., Bello, A. & Yessoufou, K. (2017) Testing the reliability of the standard and complementary DNA barcodes for the monocot subfamily Alooideae from South Africa. Genome 60: 337-347. DOI: 10.1139/gen-2015-0183
PDF file 26- Bezeng, B.S., Davies, T.J., Daru, B.H., Kabongo, R.M., Maurin, O., Orton, R.D., Yessoufou, K., van der Bank, H. & van der Bank, M. (2017) Ten years of barcoding at the African Centre for DNA barcoding. Genome 60: 629-638. DOI: 10.1139/gen-2016-0198
PDF file 25- Yessoufou, K., Daru, B.H., Tafirei, R., Elansary, H.O. & Rampedi, I. (2017) Integrating biogeography, threat and evolutionary data to explore extinction crisis in the taxonomic group of cycads. Ecology and Evolution 7: 2735-2746. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2660
PDF file 24- Bezeng, B.S., Morales-Castilla, I., van der Bank, M., Yessoufou, K., Daru, B.H. & Davies, T.J. (2017) Climate change may reduce the spread of non-native species. Ecosphere 8: e01694. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1694
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2016
23- Charles-Dominique, T., Davies, T.J., Hempson, G.P., Bezeng, S.B., Daru, B.H., Kabongo, R.M., Maurin, O., Muasya, A.M., van der Bank, M. & Bond, W.J. (2016) Spiny plants, mammal browsers and the origin of African savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113: E5572–E5579. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607493113
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22- Daru, B.H. & le Roux, P.C. (2016) Marine protected areas are insufficient to conserve global marine plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 324–334. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1694
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21- Daru, B.H. & Yessoufou, K. (2016) A search for a single DNA barcode for seagrasses of the world. DNA Barcoding in Marine Perspectives: Assessment and Conservation of Biodiversity (ed. by S. Trivedi, A.A. Ansari, K.S. Ghosh, H. Rehman), pp. 313-330. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41840-7_19
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20- Daru, B.H., Berger, D.K. & van Wyk, A.E. (2016) Opportunities for unlocking the potential of genomics for African trees. New Phytologist 210: 772–778. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13826
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19- Davies, T.J., Daru, B.H., Van der Bank, M., Maurin, O. & Bond, W.J. (2016) Multiple routes underground? Frost alone cannot explain the evolution of underground trees. New Phytologist 209: 910-912. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13795
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18- Daru, B.H., Van der Bank, M., Maurin, O., Yessoufou, K., Schaefer, H., Slingsby, J.A. & Davies, T.J. (2016) A novel phylogenetic regionalization of the phytogeographic zones of southern Africa reveals their hidden evolutionary affinities. Journal of Biogeography 43: 155-166. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12619
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2015
17- Daru, B.H., Van der Bank, M. & Davies, T.J. (2015) Spatial incongruence among hotspots and complementary areas of tree diversity in southern Africa. Diversity and Distributions 21: 769-780. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12290
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16- Bello, A., Daru, B.H., Stirton, C.H., Chimphango, S.B.M., Van der Bank, M., Maurin, O. & Muasya, A.M. (2015) DNA barcodes reveal microevolutionary signals in fire response trait in two legume genera. AoB PLANTS 7: plv124. DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv124
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15- Yessoufou, K., Daru, B.H. & Muasya, A.M. (2015) Phylogenetic exploration of commonly used medicinal plants in South Africa. Molecular Ecology Resources 15: 405-413. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12310
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14- Daru, B.H., Yessoufou, K., Nuttman, C. & Abalaka, J. (2015) A preliminary study of bird use of fig Ficus species in Amurum Forest Reserve, Nigeria. Malimbus 37: 1-15. DOI
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2014
13- Maurin, O., Davies, T.J., Burrows, J.E., Daru, B.H., Yessoufou, K., Muasya, A.M., Van der Bank, M. & Bond, W.J. (2014) Savanna fire and the origins of the "underground forests" of Africa. New Phytologist 204: 201-214. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12936
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12- Yessoufou, K., Bamigboye, S.O., Daru, B.H. & Van der Bank, M. (2014) Evidence of constant diversification punctuated by a mass extinction in the African cycad. Ecology and Evolution 4: 50-58. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.880
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11- Manning, J.C., Boatwright, J.S., Daru, B.H., Maurin, O. & Van der Bank, M. (2014) A molecular phylogeny and generic classification of Asphodelaceae subfamily Alooideae: A final resolution of the prickly issue of polyphyly in the Alooids? Systematic Botany 39: 55-74. DOI: 10.1600/036364414X678044
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10- Yessoufou, K., Gere, J., Daru, B.H. & Van der Bank, M. (2014) Differences in evolutionary history translate into differences in invasion success of alien mammals in South Africa. Ecology and Evolution 44: 2115-2123. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1031
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09- Iheanacho, H.E., Njobeh, P.B., Dutton, F.M., Steenkamp, P.A., Steenkamp, L., Mthombeni, J.Q., Daru, B.H. & Makun, A.H. (2014) Morphological and molecular identification of filamentous Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus isolated from compound feeds in South Africa. Food Microbiology 44: 180-184. DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2014.05.019
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2013
08- Daru, B.H., Yessoufou, K., Mankga, L.T. & Davies, T.J. (2013) A global trend towards the loss of evolutionarily unique species in mangrove ecosystems. PLoS ONE 8: e66686. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066686
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07- Daru, B.H., Manning, J.C., Boatwright, J.S., Maurin, O., Maclean, N., Schaefer, H., Kuzmina, M. & Van der Bank, M. (2013) Molecular and morphological analysis of subfamily Alooideae (Asphodelaceae) and the inclusion of Chortolirion in Aloe. Taxon 62: 62-76. DOI: 10.1002/tax.621006
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06- Kyalangalilwa, B., Boatwright, J.S., Daru, B.H., Maurin, O. & Van der Bank, M. (2013) Phylogenetic position and revised classification of Acacia s.l. (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in Africa, including new combinations Vachellia and Senegalia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 500-523. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12047
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2013
05- Gere, J., Yessoufou, K., Daru, B.H., Maurin, O., Mankga, L.T. & Van der Bank, M. (2013) Incorporating trnH-psbA to core DNA barcodes improves discrimination of species within southern African Combretaceae. ZooKeys 365: 127-147. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.365.5728
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04- Mankga, L.T., Yessoufou, K., Moteetee, A.M., Daru, B.H. & Van der Bank, M. (2013) Efficacy of the core DNA barcodes in identifying processed and poorly conserved plant materials commonly used in South African traditional medicine. ZooKeys 365: 215-233. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.365.5730
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2012
03- Yessoufou, K., Daru, B.H. & Davies, T.J. (2012) Phylogenetic patterns of extinction risk in the Eastern Arc ecosystems, an African biodiversity hotspot. PLoS ONE 7: e47082. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047082
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02- Yessoufou, K., Abalaka, J., Van der Bank, M. & Daru, B.H. (2012) Fig-frugivore interactions follow a constrained Brownian motion model of evolution in an Important Bird Area, West Africa. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 58: 39-51. DOI: 10.1560/IJEE.58.1.39
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01- Van der Bank, H.F., Greenfield, R., Daru, B.H. & Yessoufou, K. (2012) DNA barcoding reveals micro-evolutionary changes and river system-level phylogeographic resolution of seven populations of African silver catfish, Schilbe intermedius (Siluriformes, Schilbeidae). Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 42: 307-320. DOI: 10.3750/AIP2012.42.4.04
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