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Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
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Plant evolution, restoration, Speciation, Adaptation, and Population genomics, Afroalpine plants

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Norway, Ethiopia

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Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research: Grimstad, NO

2023-07-24 to present | Postdoctoral research fellow (Department of Urban Greening and Vegetation Ecology)
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Abel Gizaw

University of Oslo: Oslo, NO

2015-03 to 2023-01-01 | Postdoctoral research fellow (Natural History Museum )
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Abel Gizaw

Works (23)

Ecological speciation with gene flow followed initial large‐scale geographic speciation in the enigmatic afroalpine giant senecios (Dendrosenecio)

New Phytologist
2025-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/nph.20432
Contributors: Juan Manuel Gorospe; Eliška Záveská; Desalegn Chala; Abel Gizaw; Felly Mugizi Tusiime; A. Lovisa S. Gustafsson; Lubomír Piálek; Filip Kolář; Christian Brochmann; Roswitha Schmickl
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Different resource partitioning explains plant species richness patterns in tropical alpine ecosystems

2024-06-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.24.599547
Contributors: Martha Kandziora; Diana L. A. Vásquez; Christian Brochmann; Abel Gizaw; Lovisa Gustafsson; Desalegn Chala; Mercè Galbany-Casals; Filip Kolář; Petr Sklenář; Nicolai M. Nürk et al.
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Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal

BioScience
2024-06-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biae043
Part of ISSN: 0006-3568
Part of ISSN: 1525-3244
Contributors: Pedro Jiménez-Mejías; Saúl Manzano; Vinita Gowda; Frank-T. Krell; Mei-Ying Lin; Martín-Bravo, S.; Laura Martín-Torrijos; Gonzalo Nieto Feliner; Sergei Mosyakin; Robert Naczi et al.
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How Does Selfing Affect the Pace and Process of Speciation?

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
2024-03-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041426
Part of ISSN: 1943-0264
Contributors: Lucas Marie-Orleach; Sylvain Glémin; Marie K. Brandrud; Anne K. Brysting; Abel Gizaw; A. Lovisa S. Gustafsson; Loren H. Rieseberg; Christian Brochmann; Siri Birkeland
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African Mountain Thistles: Three New Genera in the <i>Carduus-Cirsium</i> Group

Plants
2023-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/plants12173083
Contributors: Lucía D. Moreyra; Núria Garcia-Jacas; Cristina Roquet; Jennifer R. Ackerfield; Turan Arabacı; Carme Blanco-Gavaldà; Christian Brochmann; Juan Antonio Calleja Alarcón; Tuncay Dirmenci; Kazumi Fujikawa et al.
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Repeatedly Northwards and Upwards: Southern African Grasslands Fuel the Colonization of the African Sky Islands in Helichrysum (Compositae)

Plants
2023-06-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/plants12112213
Contributors: Carme Blanco-Gavaldà; Mercè Galbany-Casals; Alfonso Susanna; Santiago Andrés-Sánchez; Randall J. Bayer; Christian Brochmann; Glynis V. Cron; Nicola G. Bergh; Núria Garcia-Jacas; Abel Gizaw et al.
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Ecology, evolution, and conservation of Ethiopia’s biodiversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-12-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206635119
Contributors: Peter J. Fashing; Nga Nguyen; Sebsebe Demissew; Abel Gizaw; Anagaw Atickem; Addisu Mekonnen; Niina O. Nurmi; Jeffrey T. Kerby; Nils Chr. Stenseth
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The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-05-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112737119
Contributors: Martha Kandziora; Berit Gehrke; Magnus Popp; Abel Gizaw; Christian Brochmann; Michael D. Pirie
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Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)

Alpine Botany
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-021-00268-5
Contributors: Abel Gizaw; Juan Manuel Gorospe; Martha Kandziora; Desalegn Chala; Lovisa Gustafsson; Abush Zinaw; Luciana Salomón; Gerald Eilu; Christian Brochmann; Filip Kolář et al.
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History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg

Alpine Botany
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-021-00256-9
Contributors: Christian Brochmann; Abel Gizaw; Desalegn Chala; Martha Kandziora; Gerald Eilu; Magnus Popp; Michael D. Pirie; Berit Gehrke
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Multiple mountain‐hopping colonization of sky‐islands on the two sides of Tropical Africa during the Pleistocene: The afroalpine Festuca grasses

Journal of Biogeography
2021-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14117
Contributors: Mario Mairal; Mary Namaganda; Abel Gizaw; Desalegn Chala; Christian Brochmann; Pilar Catalán; Felix Forest
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The genome of Draba nivalis shows signatures of adaptation to the extreme environmental stresses of the Arctic.

Molecular ecology resources
2020-10-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13280
PMID: 33058468
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Abel Gizaw

Afro-alpine flagships revisited: Parallel adaptation, intermountain admixture and shallow genetic structuring in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio)

PLOS ONE
2020-03-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228979
Part of ISSN: 1932-6203
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Genetic structuring, dispersal and taxonomy of the high-alpine populations of the Geranium arabicum/kilimandscharicum complex in tropical eastern Africa

Plos One
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178208
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WOS:000402063000029
Contributors: Wondimu, Tigist; Gizaw, Abel; Tusiime, Felly M.; Masao, Catherine A.; Abdi, Ahmed A.; Hou, Yan; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Brochmann, Christian
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Sweet vernal grasses (Anthoxanthum) colonized African mountains along two fronts in the Late Pliocene, followed by secondary contact, polyploidization and local extinction in the Pleistocene

Molecular Ecology
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.14136
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WOS:000403695500016
Contributors: Tusiime, Felly Mugizi; Gizaw, Abel; Wondimu, Tigist; Masao, Catherine Aloyce; Abdi, Ahmed Abdikadir; Muwanika, Vincent; Travnicek, Pavel; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Popp, Magnus; Eilu, Gerald et al.
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Colonization and diversification in the African 'sky islands': insights from fossil-calibrated molecular dating of Lychnis (Caryophyllaceae)

New Phytologist
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13937
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WOS:000379213200030
Contributors: Gizaw, Abel; Brochmann, Christian; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Wondimu, Tigist; Masao, Catherine Aloyce; Tusiime, Felly Mugizi; Abdi, Ahmed Abdikadir; Oxelman, Bengt; Popp, Magnus; Dimitrov, Dimitar
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Good-bye to tropical alpine plant giants under warmer climates? Loss of range and genetic diversity in Lobelia rhynchopetalum

Ecology and Evolution
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2603
WOSUID:

WOS:000392063300025
Contributors: Chala, Desalegn; Brochmann, Christian; Psomas, Achilleas; Ehrich, Dorothee; Gizaw, Abel; Masao, Catherine A.; Bakkestuen, Vegar; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.
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Vicariance, dispersal, and hybridization in a naturally fragmented system: the afro-alpine endemics Carex monostachya and C. runssoroensis (Cyperaceae)

Alpine Botany
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-015-0162-2
WOSUID:

WOS:000372300400006
Contributors: Gizaw, Abel; Wondimu, Tigist; Mugizi, Tusiime Felly; Masao, Catherine Aloyce; Abdi, Ahmed Abdikadir; Popp, Magnus; Ehrich, Dorothee; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Brochmann, Christian
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Crossing barriers in an extremely fragmented system: two case studies in the afro-alpine sky island flora

Plant Systematics and Evolution
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-013-0892-9
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WOS:000330988400003
Contributors: Wondimu, Tigist; Gizaw, Abel; Tusiime, Felly M.; Masao, Catherine A.; Abdi, Ahmed A.; Gussarova, Galina; Popp, Magnus; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Brochmann, Christian
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Use of Ancient Sedimentary DNA as a Novel Conservation Tool for High-Altitude Tropical Biodiversity

Conservation Biology
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12195
WOSUID:

WOS:000332923500016
Contributors: Boessenkool, Sanne; Mcglynn, Gayle; Epp, Laura S.; Taylor, David; Pimentel, Manuel; Gizaw, Abel; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Brochmann, Christian; Popp, Magnus
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Phylogeographic history and taxonomy of some afro-alpine grasses assessed based on AFLPs and morphometry: Deschampsia cespitosa, D. angusta and Koeleria capensis

Alpine Botany
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-013-0119-2
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WOS:000325686600007
Contributors: Masao, Catherine A.; Gizaw, Abel; Pineiro, Rosalia; Tusiime, Felly M.; Wondimu, Tigist; Abdi, Ahmed A.; Popp, Magnus; Gussarova, Galina; Lye, Kare A.; Munishi, Pantaleo et al.
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Phylogeography of the heathers Erica arborea and E. trimera in the afro-alpine 'sky islands' inferred from AFLPs and plastid DNA sequences

Flora
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2013.07.007
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WOS:000324783700007
Contributors: Gizaw, Abel; Kebede, Mulugeta; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Ehrich, Dorothee; Bekele, Biructawit; Mirre, Virginia; Popp, Magnus; Brochmann, Christian
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Colonization and diversification in the African 'sky islands' by Eurasian Lychnis L. (Caryophyllaceae)

Journal of Biogeography
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01902.x
WOSUID:

WOS:000255714800004
Contributors: Popp, Magnus; Gizaw, Abel; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Suda, Jan; Brochmann, Christian
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