Anabela Cardoso

Evaluating three alternative scenarios for the origin of a disjunct Arctium tomentosum population in the Pyrenees

Background Disjunctions in species distributions offer natural experiments for investigating the mechanisms underlying distributional breaks, such as range contraction, long-distance pollen transport, or long-distance seed dispersal. Here, we document and characterise a floristic...

Resin does not safeguard insect DNA during early decay despite preservation of soft tissues

Abstract The notion that plant resin acts as an exceptional preservative of insect DNA and soft tissues—functioning as a natural dehydration capsule—has been questioned in recent years, yet empirical support remains limited. We applied an actuotaphonomic approach across a 30-day...