Historical biogeography of Florestina (Asteraceae: Bahieae) of dry environments in Mexico: evaluating models and uncertainty in low-diversity clades

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F.S.-T. wishes to thank the Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas and the Programa de Becas Posdoctorales both at UNAM for continuous support throughout this research. This work was also supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) through a Doctoral Dissertation grant (171389). N.J.M. was supported by the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, an Institute sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Agriculture through NSF Award #EFJ0832858, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. N.J.M. was also funded by the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award #DE150101773, and by The Australian National University. F.S.T. was supported by two Short-Term Visitor grants from NIMBioS in 2014 and 2015. K.A.M. was supported by the National Institutes of Health Program for Excellence and Equity in Research Grant [R25 5R25GM086761-06] and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.