List of works - Thomas Louis Peter Couvreur

A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

A mega-phylogeny of the Annonaceae: taxonomic placement of five enigmatic genera and support for a new tribe, Phoenicantheae

scientific article published on 04 August 2017

A new species in the tree genus Polyceratocarpus (Annonaceae) from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scientific article

A new species of Uvariopsis (Annonaceae), endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 April 2010

A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

An endangered West African rattan palm: Eremospatha dransfieldii.

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal

scientific article

Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa

scholarly article by Vincent Droissart et al published 28 February 2018 in Journal of Biogeography

Cenozoic imprints on the phylogenetic structure of palm species assemblages worldwide

scientific article (publication date: 8 May 2012)

Characterizing the phylogenetic tree community structure of a protected tropical rain forest area in Cameroon

scientific article

Chromosome-level reference genome of the soursop (Annona muricata): A new resource for Magnoliid research and tropical pomology

scientific article published on 10 March 2021

Complete plastome sequences of 14 African yam species (Dioscorea spp.)

ConR: An R package to assist large-scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data.

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Correction: Phylogenetic Analysis of Seven WRKY Genes across the Palm Subtribe Attaleinae (Arecaceae) Identifies as Sister Group of the Coconut

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Cost-effective enrichment hybridization capture of chloroplast genomes at deep multiplexing levels for population genetics and phylogeography studies

scientific article

Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Crop wild relative conservation: Wild yams are not that wild

Description of four new species of Monodora and Isolona (Annonaceae) from Tanzania and an overview of Tanzanian Annonaceae diversity ⬇️

scientific article published in 2006

Dispersal and niche evolution jointly shape the geographic turnover of phylogenetic clades across continents

scientific article

Diversity and conservation status of palms (Arecaceae) in two hotspots of biodiversity in Colombia and Ecuador

scientific article published on 5 April 2024

Early evolutionary history of the flowering plant family Annonaceae: steady diversification and boreotropical geodispersal

article

Evolution of syncarpy and other morphological characters in African Annonaceae: a posterior mapping approach.

scientific article published in February 2008

Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2017)

Five major shifts of diversification through the long evolutionary history of Magnoliidae (angiosperms)

scientific article

From capsules to nutlets-phylogenetic relationships in the Boraginales

scholarly article by Maximilian Weigend et al published 11 November 2013 in Cladistics

Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms

article

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. I. Historical biogeography

article

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. II. Diversification history and origin of regional assemblages

article

Global diversification of a tropical plant growth form: environmental correlates and historical contingencies in climbing palms

scientific article

Guinea yam (Dioscorea spp., Dioscoreaceae) wild relatives identified using whole plastome phylogenetic analyses

scholarly article by Jacqueline Magwé-Tindo et al published 17 October 2018 in Taxon

Historical biogeography of Boraginales: West Gondwanan vicariance followed by long-distance dispersal?

scholarly article by Federico Luebert et al published 8 August 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

Impact of end‐of‐century climate change on priority non‐timber forest product species across tropical Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Individualistic evolutionary responses of Central African rain forest plants to Pleistocene climatic fluctuations

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Insights into the influence of priors in posterior mapping of discrete morphological characters: a case study in Annonaceae

scientific article

Integration and harmonization of trait data from plant individuals across heterogeneous sources

scientific article published on 27 February 2021

Intra-individual polymorphism in chloroplasts from NGS data: where does it come from and how to handle it?

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Keys to the genera of Annonaceae

scientific article published in 2012

Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera

scientific article (publication date: 11 October 2011)

Long-fragment targeted capture for long-read sequencing of plastomes

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Low extinction risk for an important plant resource: Conservation assessments of continental African palms (Arecaceae/Palmae)

scientific article published in May 2018

Molecular and Morphological Characterization of a New Monotypic Genus of Annonaceae, Mwasumbia from Tanzania

scholarly article by Thomas Couvreur et al published 1 June 2009 in Systematic Botany

Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees

scientific article (publication date: 16 December 2008)

Molecular phylogenetics, temporal diversification, and principles of evolution in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).

scientific article published in January 2010

Multiple shifts to open habitats in Melastomateae (Melastomataceae) congruent with the increase of African Neogene climatic aridity

scientific article published in 2018

New species of Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) and Laccosperma (Arecaceae/Palmae) from Monts de Cristal, Gabon

scientific article

On the origin of giant seeds: the macroevolution of the double coconut (Lodoicea maldivica) and its relatives (Borasseae, Arecaceae)

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Origin and global diversification patterns of tropical rain forests: inferences from a complete genus-level phylogeny of palms

scientific article (publication date: 16 June 2011)

Phylogenetic analysis of seven WRKY genes across the palm subtribe Attaleinae (Arecaceae) [corrected] identifies Syagrus as sister group of the coconut

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships among arecoid palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae).

scientific article published on 16 February 2011

Phylogenetics and diversification history of African rattans (Calamoideae, Ancistrophyllinae)

scholarly article by Adama Faye et al published 5 July 2016 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Phylogenomic approaches reveal how climate shapes patterns of genetic diversity in an African rain forest tree species

scientific article published on 02 August 2020

Phylogenomic relationships and historical biogeography in the South American vegetable ivory palms (Phytelepheae)

scholarly article published in 2022

Phylogenomics of the Major Tropical Plant Family Annonaceae Using Targeted Enrichment of Nuclear Genes

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Phylogenomics of the Palm Tribe Lepidocaryeae (Calamoideae: Arecaceae) and Description of a New Species of Mauritiella

scholarly article published in 2021

Phylogenomics of the major tropical plant family Annonaceae using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Phylogeny and systematics of African Melastomateae (Melastomataceae)

scientific article

Phylogeography of the genus Podococcus (Palmae/Arecaceae) in Central African rain forests: Climate stability predicts unique genetic diversity.

scientific article

Plant phylogeny as a window on the evolution of hyperdiversity in the tropical rainforest biome.

scientific article

Plastid and Seed Morphology Data Support a Revised Infrageneric Classification and an African Origin of the Pantropical Genus Xylopia (Annonaceae)

scientific article

Pleistocene climatic fluctuations promoted alternative evolutionary histories in <i>Phytelephas aequatorialis</i>, an endemic palm from western Ecuador

scientific article published in 2021

Pre‐Pleistocene origin of phylogeographical breaks in African rain forest trees: New insights from Greenwayodendron (Annonaceae) phylogenomics

scholarly article by Jérémy Migliore et al published 9 December 2018 in Journal of Biogeography

Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots and Modern Macroevolutionary Modelling

scientific article published on 4 January 2021

Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots, and Modern Macroevolutionary Modeling

scientific article published on 19 April 2022

RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions

scientific article

Raphia vinifera (Arecaceae; Calamoideae): Misidentified for far too long

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Revision of the African Genus Hexalobus (Annonaceae)

scientific article published in 2011

Revision of the African genus Uvariastrum (Annonaceae)

scientific article

Sequential diversification with Miocene extinction and Pliocene speciation linked to mountain uplift explains the diversity of the African rain forest clade Monodoreae (Annonaceae)

scientific article published on 2 September 2023

Sirdavidia, an extraordinary new genus of Annonaceae from Gabon

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Spatial distribution of Annonaceae across biomes and anthromes: Knowledge gaps in spatial and ecological data

scientific article published in 2022

Spatio-temporal dynamism of hotspots enhances plant diversity

Species delimitation in the genus Greenwayodendron based on morphological and genetic markers reveals new species

scientific article

Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Taxonomic revision of the African genera Brieya and Piptostigma (Annonaceae)

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Taxonomic revision of the African genus (Annonaceae)

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

scientific article published on 13 September 2020

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The soursop genome and comparative genomics of basal angiosperms provide new insights on evolutionary incongruence

Three new species of Uvariodendron (Annonaceae) from coastal East Africa in Kenya and Tanzania ⬇️

scientific article

Three new species of Valeriana (Valerianoideae, Caprifoliaceae) from southern Ecuador

scientific article published in 2023

To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change.

scientific article

Tree diversity of the Dja Faunal Reserve, southeastern Cameroon

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Tropical rain forest evolution: palms as a model group ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 15 April 2013)

Two new records of palm species for Gabon: Sclerosperma profizianum Valk. & Sunder. and Eremospatha quiquecostulata Becc

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Two new species of (Palmae/Arecaceae) from Cameroon and Gabon

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Unraveling rain forest biodiversity: an interview with Thomas Couvreur

scientific article published in November 2018

Unraveling the Phylogenomic Relationships of the Most Diverse African Palm Genus Raphia (Calamoideae, Arecaceae)

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Which frugivory‐related traits facilitated historical long‐distance dispersal in the custard apple family (Annonaceae)?

article by Renske E. Onstein et al published 3 April 2019 in Journal of Biogeography

Desmopsis terriflora, an extraordinary new species of Annonaceae with flagelliflory

scientific article published in 2023

Flora of Cameroon – Annonaceae Vol 45

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenomic inference of the African tribe Monodoreae (Annonaceae) and taxonomic revision of Dennettia, Uvariodendron and Uvariopsis

scientific article published in 2023

Rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus L.E.Skog & L.P.Kvist (Gesneriaceae) at multiple sites in western Ecuador ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 April 2022

List of works by Thomas Louis Peter Couvreur

A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses

A mega-phylogeny of the Annonaceae: taxonomic placement of five enigmatic genera and support for a new tribe, Phoenicantheae

A new species in the tree genus Polyceratocarpus (Annonaceae) from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

A new species of Uvariopsis (Annonaceae), endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania ⬇️

A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics

A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

An endangered West African rattan palm: Eremospatha dransfieldii.

Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal

Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa

Cenozoic imprints on the phylogenetic structure of palm species assemblages worldwide

Characterizing the phylogenetic tree community structure of a protected tropical rain forest area in Cameroon

Chromosome-level reference genome of the soursop (Annona muricata): A new resource for Magnoliid research and tropical pomology

Complete plastome sequences of 14 African yam species (Dioscorea spp.)

ConR: An R package to assist large-scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data.

Correction: Phylogenetic Analysis of Seven WRKY Genes across the Palm Subtribe Attaleinae (Arecaceae) Identifies as Sister Group of the Coconut

Cost-effective enrichment hybridization capture of chloroplast genomes at deep multiplexing levels for population genetics and phylogeography studies

Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa

Crop wild relative conservation: Wild yams are not that wild

Description of four new species of Monodora and Isolona (Annonaceae) from Tanzania and an overview of Tanzanian Annonaceae diversity ⬇️

Dispersal and niche evolution jointly shape the geographic turnover of phylogenetic clades across continents

Diversity and conservation status of palms (Arecaceae) in two hotspots of biodiversity in Colombia and Ecuador

Early evolutionary history of the flowering plant family Annonaceae: steady diversification and boreotropical geodispersal

Evolution of syncarpy and other morphological characters in African Annonaceae: a posterior mapping approach.

Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa

Five major shifts of diversification through the long evolutionary history of Magnoliidae (angiosperms)

From capsules to nutlets-phylogenetic relationships in the Boraginales

Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. I. Historical biogeography

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. II. Diversification history and origin of regional assemblages

Global diversification of a tropical plant growth form: environmental correlates and historical contingencies in climbing palms

Guinea yam (Dioscorea spp., Dioscoreaceae) wild relatives identified using whole plastome phylogenetic analyses

Historical biogeography of Boraginales: West Gondwanan vicariance followed by long-distance dispersal?

Impact of end‐of‐century climate change on priority non‐timber forest product species across tropical Africa

Individualistic evolutionary responses of Central African rain forest plants to Pleistocene climatic fluctuations

Insights into the influence of priors in posterior mapping of discrete morphological characters: a case study in Annonaceae

Integration and harmonization of trait data from plant individuals across heterogeneous sources

Intra-individual polymorphism in chloroplasts from NGS data: where does it come from and how to handle it?

Keys to the genera of Annonaceae

Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera

Long-fragment targeted capture for long-read sequencing of plastomes

Low extinction risk for an important plant resource: Conservation assessments of continental African palms (Arecaceae/Palmae)

Molecular and Morphological Characterization of a New Monotypic Genus of Annonaceae, Mwasumbia from Tanzania

Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees

Molecular phylogenetics, temporal diversification, and principles of evolution in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).

Multiple shifts to open habitats in Melastomateae (Melastomataceae) congruent with the increase of African Neogene climatic aridity

New species of Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) and Laccosperma (Arecaceae/Palmae) from Monts de Cristal, Gabon

On the origin of giant seeds: the macroevolution of the double coconut (Lodoicea maldivica) and its relatives (Borasseae, Arecaceae)

Origin and global diversification patterns of tropical rain forests: inferences from a complete genus-level phylogeny of palms

Phylogenetic analysis of seven WRKY genes across the palm subtribe Attaleinae (Arecaceae) [corrected] identifies Syagrus as sister group of the coconut

Phylogenetic relationships among arecoid palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae).

Phylogenetics and diversification history of African rattans (Calamoideae, Ancistrophyllinae)

Phylogenomic approaches reveal how climate shapes patterns of genetic diversity in an African rain forest tree species

Phylogenomic relationships and historical biogeography in the South American vegetable ivory palms (Phytelepheae)

Phylogenomics of the Major Tropical Plant Family Annonaceae Using Targeted Enrichment of Nuclear Genes

Phylogenomics of the Palm Tribe Lepidocaryeae (Calamoideae: Arecaceae) and Description of a New Species of Mauritiella

Phylogenomics of the major tropical plant family Annonaceae using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes

Phylogeny and systematics of African Melastomateae (Melastomataceae)

Phylogeography of the genus Podococcus (Palmae/Arecaceae) in Central African rain forests: Climate stability predicts unique genetic diversity.

Plant phylogeny as a window on the evolution of hyperdiversity in the tropical rainforest biome.

Plastid and Seed Morphology Data Support a Revised Infrageneric Classification and an African Origin of the Pantropical Genus Xylopia (Annonaceae)

Pleistocene climatic fluctuations promoted alternative evolutionary histories in <i>Phytelephas aequatorialis</i>, an endemic palm from western Ecuador

Pre‐Pleistocene origin of phylogeographical breaks in African rain forest trees: New insights from Greenwayodendron (Annonaceae) phylogenomics

Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots and Modern Macroevolutionary Modelling

Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots, and Modern Macroevolutionary Modeling

RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions

Raphia vinifera (Arecaceae; Calamoideae): Misidentified for far too long

Revision of the African Genus Hexalobus (Annonaceae)

Revision of the African genus Uvariastrum (Annonaceae)

Sequential diversification with Miocene extinction and Pliocene speciation linked to mountain uplift explains the diversity of the African rain forest clade Monodoreae (Annonaceae)

Sirdavidia, an extraordinary new genus of Annonaceae from Gabon

Spatial distribution of Annonaceae across biomes and anthromes: Knowledge gaps in spatial and ecological data

Spatio-temporal dynamism of hotspots enhances plant diversity

Species delimitation in the genus Greenwayodendron based on morphological and genetic markers reveals new species

Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae

Taxonomic revision of the African genera Brieya and Piptostigma (Annonaceae)

Taxonomic revision of the African genus (Annonaceae)

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

Desmopsis terriflora, an extraordinary new species of Annonaceae with flagelliflory

Flora of Cameroon – Annonaceae Vol 45

Phylogenomic inference of the African tribe Monodoreae (Annonaceae) and taxonomic revision of Dennettia, Uvariodendron and Uvariopsis

Rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus L.E.Skog & L.P.Kvist (Gesneriaceae) at multiple sites in western Ecuador ⬇️