Publications
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Karimi N. and Hanes M.K. 2024. "Patterns of Grewia (Malvaceae) diversity across geographic scales in Africa and Madagascar." Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae009 Karimi N., Krieg C., Spalink D., Lemmon E., Moriarty Lemmon E., Eifler E., Hernández A.I., Chan P.W., Rodríguez A., Landis J., Strickler S., Specht C.D., Givnish T.J. "Chromosomal evolution, environmental heterogeneity, and migration drive spatial patterns of species richness in Calochortus (Liliaceae)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(10). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305228121 Larkin D. J., Glasenhardt M-C., Williams E.W., Karimi N, Barak R., Leavens, E., Hipp, A.L. 2023. “Evolutionary History Shapes Grassland Productivity through Opposing Effects on Complementarity and Selection.” Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4129 Karimi N., Baum D.A., Razanamaro O.H., Leong Pock Tsy J.M., and Danthu P. Malvaceae, Adansonia, Baobab. In Second Edition of The Natural History of Madagascar (Steve M. Goodman and Laurent Gautier, eds.), Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL. Mayne D., Karimi N., Cruywagen E.M., Cole P., Goodall V. 2022. Baobabs at the edge: 90-year dynamics of climate variability, growth, resilience, and evolutionary legacy effects. Frontiers: Forest and Global Change. Spalink D., Karimi N., Richards J., Eifler E., Givnish T. 2022. Short-distance gene flow and morphological divergence in Eschscholzia parishii (Papaveraceae): implications for speciation in desert winter annuals. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac010 Barak* R. & Karimi* N., Glasenhardt M-C, Larkin D., Hipp A.L. 2022. Similar phylogenetic and functional diversity, but lower species richness, in prairie plots planted from seeds versus plugs. Journal of Restoration Ecology. *Denotes co-first authors Karimi N., Grover C.E., Gallagher J.P., Conover J.L., Miller E.R., Wendel J.F., Baum D.A. 2022. Genetic Diversity of the Malagasy Baobabs. Adansonia (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle). https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/adansonia/44/6 Karimi N., Saghafi S., Keefover-Ring K., Venter S., Baum D.A. 2021. Evidence of hawkmoth pollination in the chiropterophilous African baobab (Adansonia digitata). Biotropica. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13033. Karimi N., Larkin D., Barak B., Glasenhardt M-C, Hipp, A. 2021. Selection on functional traits drive compositional divergence. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13808 Scher C.L., Karimi N., Glasenhardt M-C., Tuffin A., Cannon C.H., Scharenbroch B.C.; Hipp A.L. 2020. Application of remote sensing technology to estimate productivity and assess phylogenetic heritability. Applications in Plant Sciences. 8(11). https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11401 Karimi N., Grover C.E., Wendel J.F., Ane C., Baum D.A. 2020. Reticulate evolution helps explain apparent homoplasy in floral biology and pollination in baobabs (Adansonia; Bombacoideae; Malvaceae). Systematic Biology. 69: 462–478. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz073 Conover* J.L., Karimi* N., Ane C., Stenz N., Grover C.E., Tate J.A., Skema C., Logan S., Wolff K., Wendel J.F., Baum D.A. 2019. A Malvaceae mystery: a mallow maelstrom of genome multiplications and maybe misleading methods? Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 61: 12-31. *Denotes co-first authors Karimi N., Parks B., Rouse D., Martin K., Dong X., Rajangam P.C., Baum D., Heitz J. Building Trees: Introducing evolutionary concepts by exploring Crassulaceae phylogeny and biogeography. 2017. CourseSource. https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2017.16 Venter S.M., Glennon K.L., Witkowski E.T.F., Baum D.A., Cron G.V., Tivakudze R. and Karimi, N., 2017. Baobabs (Adansonia digitata L.) are self-incompatible and ‘male’ trees can produce fruit if hand-pollinated. South African Journal of Botany. 109: 263-268. Cron* G.V., Karimi* N., Glennon K. L., Chukwudi U., Witkowski E. T. F., Venter S. M., Assogbadjo A. E., Mayne D., Baum D. A. 2016. One African baobab species or two? Synonymy of Adansonia kilima and A. digitata. Taxon, 65: 1037-1049. *Denotes co-first authors Flowering Plants of Africa, Volume 64. South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-928224-03-7. (Contributed distribution information for Adansonia za and photographs of A. za and A. madagascariensis.) |