bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.09.084582; this version posted May 10, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Multiple origins of insular woodiness on the Canary Islands are consistent with palaeoclimatic aridification Running title: Insular woodiness vs palaeoclimatic aridification Alexander Hooft van Huysduynen1, Steven Janssens2, Vincent Merckx1,3, Rutger Vos1, Luis Valente1,4, Alexander Zizka1,5, Maximilian Larter1, Betül Karabayir1, Daphne Maaskant1, Youri Witmer1, José Maria Fernández-Palacios6, Lea de Nascimento6, Ruth Molina Jaén7, Juli Caujapé Castells7, Águedo Marrero-Rodríguez7, Marcelino del Arco8, Frederic Lens1* 1Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300RA, The Netherlands 2Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium 3Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, Groningen 9700 CC, The Netherlands 5German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 6Island Ecology and Biogeography Research Group, Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna 38200, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 7Jardín Botánico Canario “Viera y Clavijo”-Unidad Asociada al CSIC (Cabildo de Gran Canaria), Camino del palmeral 15 (Tafira Alta), 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 8Departamento de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain *corresponding author: Frederic Lens (email
[email protected]) bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.09.084582; this version posted May 10, 2020.