Tree of life

Patterns from the past have frequently been a source of creative ideas for fashion textiles. Culturally-inspired fashion products reflect traditional beauty, cultural identity, and national image, and preserve national cultural heritage (Perivoliotis, 2005; Hyun and Bae, 2007; C…

Dimensions of biodiversity such as morphology, species richness, and trophic ecology vary widely across the tree of life and geographic space, however we do not yet fully understand the processes that produce this variation, nor the relationships between these processes. My diss…