2026
62- Daru BH, Nichodemus CO & Henao-Diaz LF (2026) Biogeographic processes underlying global patterns of plant diversity. Science 392: 845–849.
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61- Puleo LH, Fukami T & Daru BH (2026) Herbaria unlock tripartite pollination responses to anthropogenic change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 41: 690–694.
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60- Gross CP, Kawahara AY & Daru BH (2026) Climate and regional plant richness drive diet specialization in butterfly caterpillars. Nature Communications 17: 7127.
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59- Markley PT & Daru BH (2026) Late Quaternary climate-driven shifts in arctic plant distributions. Journal of Biogeography 53: e70198.
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58- Gonzalez A, August T, Bailey S, Bobiwash K, Boersch-Supan PH, Burgess ND, Daru BH, Elphick CS, Freckleton R, Frick WF, Hughes AC, Isaac NJB, Jones JPG, Lambertini M, Mac Aodha O, Madhavapeddy A, Milner-Gulland EJ, Purvis A, Salafsky N, Sutherland WJ, Tanshi I, Vijay V, Woodard SH & Williams DR (2026) From data to decisions: toward a biodiversity monitoring standards framework. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 123: e2519347123.
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57- Sutherland WJ, Burgess ND, Goetz SJ, Jones JPG, Soltis PS, Tilman D, Allen JM, Andrianandrasana HT, August T, Bawa K, Bailey S, Birch T, Boersch-Supan PH, Cavender-Bares J, Blaxter M, Chaplin-Kramer R, Daru BH, De Palma A, Eisenberg C, Elphick CS, Freckleton R, Frick WF, Gonzalez A, Greenspoon L, Grozinger CM, Hankins DL, Hazell J, Isaac NJB, Lambertini M, Lewin HA, Mac Aodha O, Madhavapeddy A, Milner-Gulland EJ, Milo R, O’Dwyer J, Purvis A, Salafsky N, Tallis H, Tanshi I, Vijay V, Wikelski M, Williams DR, Woodard SH & Robinson GE (2026) Nine changes needed to deliver a radical transformation in biodiversity measurement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 123: e2519345123.
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2025
56- Daru BH & Zhigila DA (2025) Unlocking historical plant interactions in herbarium collections. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1: 627–643.
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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 100: 2396–2419.
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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 of the Royal Society 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: e2319989121.
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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 & 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.
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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.
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2018
33- Daru BH, Park DS, Primack RB, Willis CG, Barrington DS, Whitfeld TJS, Seidler TG, Sweeney PW, Foster DR, Ellison AM & Davis CC (2018) Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. New Phytologist 217: 939–955.
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32- Daru BH, Bowman EA, Pfister DH & Arnold AE (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.
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31- Meineke EK, Davies TJ, Daru BH & Davis CC (2018) Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374: 20170386.
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30- Daru BH, van der Bank M & Davies TJ (2018) Unravelling the evolutionary origins of biogeographic assemblages. Diversity and Distributions 24: 313–324.
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2017
29- Daru BH, Elliott TL, Park DS & Davies TJ (2017) Understanding the processes underpinning patterns of phylogenetic regionalization. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32: 845–860.
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28- Daru BH, Holt BG, Lessard JP, Yessoufou K & Davies TJ (2017) Phylogenetic regionalization of marine plants reveals close evolutionary affinities among disjunct temperate assemblages. Biological Conservation 213: 351–356.
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27- Daru BH, 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.
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26- Bezeng BS, Davies TJ, Daru BH, Kabongo RM, Maurin O, Orton RD, 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.
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25- Yessoufou K, Daru BH, Tafirei R, Elansary HO & 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.
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24- Bezeng BS, Morales-Castilla I, van der Bank M, Yessoufou K, Daru BH & Davies TJ (2017) Climate change may reduce the spread of non-native species. Ecosphere 8: e01694.
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2016
23- Charles-Dominique T, Davies TJ, Hempson GP, Bezeng SB, Daru BH, Kabongo RM, Maurin O, Muasya AM, van der Bank M & Bond WJ (2016) Spiny plants, mammal browsers and the origin of African savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113: E5572–E5579.
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22- Daru BH & le Roux PC (2016) Marine protected areas are insufficient to conserve global marine plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 324–334.
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21- Daru BH & Yessoufou K (2016) A search for a single DNA barcode for seagrasses of the world. In: DNA Barcoding in Marine Perspectives: Assessment and Conservation of Biodiversity (eds Trivedi S, Ansari AA, Ghosh KS & Rehman H), pp. 313–330. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
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20- Daru BH, Berger DK & van Wyk AE (2016) Opportunities for unlocking the potential of genomics for African trees. New Phytologist 210: 772–778.
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19- Davies TJ, Daru BH, van der Bank M, Maurin O & Bond WJ (2016) Multiple routes underground? Frost alone cannot explain the evolution of underground trees. New Phytologist 209: 910–912.
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18- Daru BH, van der Bank M, Maurin O, Yessoufou K, Schaefer H, Slingsby JA & Davies TJ (2016) A novel phylogenetic regionalization of the phytogeographic zones of southern Africa reveals their hidden evolutionary affinities. Journal of Biogeography 43: 155–166.
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2015
17- Daru BH, van der Bank M & Davies TJ (2015) Spatial incongruence among hotspots and complementary areas of tree diversity in southern Africa. Diversity and Distributions 21: 769–780.
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16- Bello A, Daru BH, Stirton CH, Chimphango SBM, van der Bank M, Maurin O & Muasya AM (2015) DNA barcodes reveal microevolutionary signals in fire response trait in two legume genera. AoB PLANTS 7: plv124.
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15- Yessoufou K, Daru BH & Muasya AM (2015) Phylogenetic exploration of commonly used medicinal plants in South Africa. Molecular Ecology Resources 15: 405–413.
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14- Daru BH, 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.
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2014
13- Maurin O, Davies TJ, Burrows JE, Daru BH, Yessoufou K, Muasya AM, van der Bank M & Bond WJ (2014) Savanna fire and the origins of the "underground forests" of Africa. New Phytologist 204: 201–214.
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12- Yessoufou K, Bamigboye SO, Daru BH & van der Bank M (2014) Evidence of constant diversification punctuated by a mass extinction in the African cycad. Ecology and Evolution 4: 50–58.
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11- Manning JC, Boatwright JS, Daru BH, 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.
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10- Yessoufou K, Gere J, Daru BH & van der Bank M (2014) Differences in evolutionary history translate into differences in invasion success of alien mammals in South Africa. Ecology and Evolution 4: 2115–2123.
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9- Iheanacho HE, Njobeh PB, Dutton FM, Steenkamp PA, Steenkamp L, Mthombeni JQ, Daru BH & Makun AH (2014) Morphological and molecular identification of filamentous Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus isolated from compound feeds in South Africa. Food Microbiology 44: 180–184.
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2013
8- Daru BH, Yessoufou K, Mankga LT & Davies TJ (2013) A global trend towards the loss of evolutionarily unique species in mangrove ecosystems. PLoS ONE 8: e66686.
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7- Daru BH, Manning JC, Boatwright JS, 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.
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6- Kyalangalilwa B, Boatwright JS, Daru BH, 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.
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5- Gere J, Yessoufou K, Daru BH, Maurin O, Mankga LT & van der Bank M (2013) Incorporating trnH-psbA to core DNA barcodes improves discrimination of species within southern African Combretaceae. ZooKeys 365: 127–147.
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4- Mankga LT, Yessoufou K, Moteetee AM, Daru BH & 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.
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2012
3- Yessoufou K, Daru BH & Davies TJ (2012) Phylogenetic patterns of extinction risk in the Eastern Arc ecosystems, an African biodiversity hotspot. PLoS ONE 7: e47082.
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2- Yessoufou K, Abalaka J, van der Bank M & Daru BH (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.
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1- Van der Bank HF, Greenfield R, Daru BH & 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.
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