Research interests

I am an evolutionary biologist with a background in arthropod systematics and evolution with a specific focus on spiders. Recently the taxonomic scope of my work has has been gradually expanding to include more branches of the Tree of life such as vascular plants and vertebrates. In my current research I aim to understand how underlying evolutionary and ecological process generate and maintain biodiversity through time and space. To do so I work on assembling all pieces of a complex puzzle: from describing species and their evolutionary history to understanding how individuals and their genes interact with the environment and with each other. I am particularly interested in understanding what are the factors that govern the patterns of biodiversity at different spatial scales, and the responses of communities and individual species to climate change. I combine species evolutionary histories, contemporary distributional data and information on historical distributions, past and contemporary climate and other environmental factors, in an attempt to elucidate some of the primary mechanisms underlying the distribution of life on Earth.

BIO332 Phylogenetic Methods

The list below contains the publications in CRIStin. For full list of publications and relevant metrics please visit my Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mfemh8gAAAAJ or my Researcher ID http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-9563-2009

2024

• Liu, Yunpeng; Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2024). Reply to: Reassessing data quality underlying the recently updated floristic map of the world. (external link)

2023

• Liu, Yunpeng; Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2023). An updated floristic map of the world. (external link)
• Jiang, Ke; Wang, Qinggang; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2023). Evolutionary history and global angiosperm species richness–climate relationships. (external link)
• Struck, Torsten H; Golombek, Anja; Hoesel, Christoph et al. (2023). Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution . (external link)
• Dimitrov, Dimitar; Xu, Xiaoting; Su, Xiangyan et al. (2023). Diversification of flowering plants in space and time. (external link)
• Wang, Yunyun; Luo, Ao; Lyu, Tong et al. (2023). Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of floral symmetry in angiosperms. (external link)
• Cerca Monteiro De Oliveira, José Pedro; Cotoras, Darko; Santander, Cindy G. et al. (2023). Multiple paths toward repeated phenotypic evolution in the spiny-leg adaptive radiation (Tetragnatha; Hawai'i). (external link)
• Hormiga, Gustavo; Kulkarni, Siddharth; Arnedo, Miquel A. et al. (2023). Genitalic morphology and phylogenomic placement of the Australian spider Paraplectanoides crassipes Keyserling, 1886 (Araneae, Araneidae) with a discussion on the classification of the family Araneidae. (external link)
• Chen, Yong-Sheng; Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.; Yang, Yi et al. (2023). Dispersal modes affect Rhamnaceae diversification rates in a differentiated manner. (external link)
• Wang, Yunyun; Li, Yichun; Luo, Ao et al. (2023). Evolutionary history and climate co-determine the geographical variation in pollination modes of angiosperms in China. (external link)
• Wang, Yunyun; Lyu, Tong; Luo, Ao et al. (2023). Geographic patterns in range sizes and their drivers of endemic angiosperms in China. (external link)

2022

• Ribera, Carles; Dimitrov, Dimitar Stefanov (2022). A molecular phylogeny of the European nesticid spiders (Nesticidae, Araneae): Implications for their systematics and biogeography. (external link)
• Dimitrov, Dimitar; Neves, Danilo M.; Xu, Xiaoting (2022). Editorial: Temporal and Large-Scale Spatial Patterns of Plant Diversity and Diversification. (external link)
• Luo, Ao; Xu, Xiaoting; Liu, Yunpeng et al. (2022). Spatio-temporal patterns in the woodiness of flowering plants. (external link)
• Formenti, Giulio; Theissinger, Kathrin; Fernandes, Carlos et al. (2022). The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. (external link)
• Liu, Nana; Hu, Huifeng; Ma, Wenhong et al. (2022). Relationships Between Soil Microbial Diversities Across an Aridity Gradient in Temperate Grasslands: Soil Microbial Diversity Relationships. (external link)

2021

• Wang, Yunyun; Luo, Ao; Lyu, Tong et al. (2021). Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of angiosperm sexual systems. (external link)
• Liu, Lian; Xu, Xiaoting; Zhang, Lei et al. (2021). Global patterns of species richness of the holarctic alpine herb Saxifraga: the role of temperature and habitat heterogeneity. (external link)
• Hormiga, Gustavo; Kulkarni, Siddharth; Moreira, Thiago Da Silva et al. (2021). Molecular phylogeny of pimoid spiders and the limits of Linyphiidae, with a reassessment of male palpal homologies (Araneae, Pimoidae). (external link)
• Yan, Yujing; Davis, Charles C.; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2021). Phytogeographic History of the Tea Family Inferred through High-Resolution Phylogeny and Fossils. (external link)
• Cerca, José; Armstrong, Ellie E.; Vizueta, Joel et al. (2021). The Tetragnatha kauaiensis Genome Sheds Light on the Origins of Genomic Novelty in Spiders. (external link)
• Xie, Huanhuan; Tang, Yigong; Fu, Jiao et al. (2021). Diversity patterns and conservation gaps of Magnoliaceae species in China. (external link)

2020

• Cerca De Oliveira, Josè; Meyer, Christian; Stateczny, Dave et al. (2020). Deceleration of morphological evolution in a cryptic species complex and its link to paleontological stasis. (external link)
• Dimitrov, Dimitar; Hormiga, Gustavo (2020). Spider Diversification Through Space and Time. (external link)
• Su, Xiangyan; Shrestha, Nawal; Xu, Xiaoting et al. (2020). Phylogenetic conservatism and biogeographic affinity influence woody plant species richness–climate relationships in eastern Eurasia. (external link)
• Kulkarni, Siddharth; Kallal, Robert J.; Wood, Hannah et al. (2020). Interrogating genomic-scale data to resolve recalcitrant nodes in the Spider Tree of Life. (external link)
• Kallal, Robert J.; Kulkarni, Siddharth S; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2020). Converging on the orb: denser taxon sampling elucidates spider phylogeny and new analytical methods support repeated evolution of the orb web. (external link)
• Cai, Hongyu; Lyu, Lisha; Shrestha, Nawal et al. (2020). Geographical patterns in phylogenetic diversity of Chinese woody plants and its application for conservation planning. (external link)
• Ochoa-Ochoa, Leticia M.; Mejía-Domínguez, Nancy R.; Velasco, Julián A. et al. (2020). Dimensions of amphibian alpha diversity in the New World. (external link)

2019

• Jordal, Bjarte Henry; Roth, Steffen; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2019). Insekter - en million suksesshistorier. (external link)
• Wang, Yunyun; Lyu, Tong; Shrestha, Nawal et al. (2019). Drivers of large‐scale geographical variation in sexual systems of woody plants. (external link)
• Liu, Nana; Hu, Huifeng; Ma, Wenhong et al. (2019). Contrasting Biogeographic Patterns of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity in the Top- and Subsoils of Temperate Grasslands. (external link)
• Scharff, Nikolaj; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Blackledge, Todd A. et al. (2019). Phylogeny of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae(Araneae: Araneoidea). (external link)
• Kallal, Robert J.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Arnedo, Miquel A. et al. (2019). Monophyly, Taxon Sampling, and the Nature of Ranks in the Classification of Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea). (external link)
• Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Shrestha, Nawal et al. (2019). A consistent species richness–climate relationship for oaks across the Northern Hemisphere. (external link)

2018

• Struck, Torsten H; Feder, Jeffrey L.; Bendiksby, Mika et al. (2018). Cryptic Species – More Than Terminological Chaos: A Reply to Heethoff. (external link)
• Fernández, Rosa; Kallal, Robert J.; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2018). Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life. (external link)
• Eberle, Jonas; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro et al. (2018). Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders. (external link)
• Huber, Bernhard A.; Eberle, Jonas; Dimitrov, Dimitar (2018). The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae). (external link)
• Shrestha, Nawal; Wang, Zhiheng; Su, Xiangyan et al. (2018). Global patterns of Rhododendron diversity: The role of evolutionary time and diversification rates. (external link)
• Fernández, Rosa; Kallal, Robert J.; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2018). Phylogenomics, Diversification Dynamics, and Comparative Transcriptomics across the Spider Tree of Life. (external link)

2017

• Dimitrov, Dimitar; Benavides, Ligia R.; Arnedo, Miquel A. et al. (2017). Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). (external link)
• Struck, Torsten H; Feder, Jeffrey L.; Bendiksby, Mika et al. (2017). Finding Evolutionary Processes Hidden in Cryptic Species. (external link)
• Wheeler, Ward C.; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Crowley, Louise M. et al. (2017). The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. (external link)
• Hormiga, Gustavo; Dimitrov, Dimitar (2017). The discovery of the spider genus Putaoa (Araneae, Pimoidae) in Taiwan with the description of a new species, including its web architecture. (external link)

2016

• Tarasov, Sergey; Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z.; Krell, Frank-Thorsten et al. (2016). A review and phylogeny of Scarabaeine dung beetle fossils (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with the description of two Canthochilum species from Dominican amber. (external link)
• Gizaw, Abel ; Brochmann, Christian; Nemomissa, Sileshi et al. (2016). Colonization and diversification in the African ‘sky islands’: insights from fossil-calibrated molecular dating of Lychnis (Caryophyllaceae).. (external link)
• Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob; Maruyama, Pietro K; Bruun, Hans Henrik et al. (2016). Citizen science data reveal ecological, historical and evolutionary factors shaping interactions between woody hosts and wood-inhabiting fungi. (external link)
• Tarasov, Sergei; Dimitrov, Dimitar (2016). Multigene phylogenetic analysis redefines dung beetles relationships and classification (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). (external link)

2015

• Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Rahbek, Carsten et al. (2015). NCBIminer: sequences harvest from Genbank. (external link)
• Xu, Xiaoting; Wang, Zhiheng; Dimitrov, Dimitar et al. (2015). Using NCBIminer to search and download nucleotide sequences from GenBank. (external link)

2014

• Huber, Bernhard A.; Dimitrov, Dimitar (2014). Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae). (external link)

2013

• Holt, Ben G.; Lessard, Jean-Philippe; Borregaard, Michael Krabbe et al. (2013). Response to Comment on "An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World". (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

I am currently involved in several research projects that are mainly within the following two broad research fields.

• Systematics, macroecology and macroevolution of spiders with a particular focus on orb weavers and pholcids

• Macroecology and macroevolution of seed plants

I am also part of the BiGTREE a HKdir fudded NORPART training network between Norway, Colombia and Peru