Evolutionary diversification in the hyper-diverse montane forests of the tropical Andes: radiation of Macrocarpaea (Gentianaceae) and the possible role of range …

JC Vieu, CE Hughes, J Kissling… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… the lowland tropical rain forests and the tree line (… a rapid late Miocene to Pliocene radiation
in the Andean MMF biome based on a densely sampled phylogenetic tree for a species-rich

The origins and drivers of Neotropical diversity

AS Meseguer, A Michel, PH Fabre, OA Pérez-Escobar… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
… Andes, in particular, is considered to be the most species-rich … 49 trees, we detected
variation in diversification rates. … tools, in conjunction with the rapid increase in the availability of …

Neotropical diversification: historical overview and conceptual insights

V Rull - Neotropical diversification: Patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
… (4) the appearance and the rapid development of molecular … Miocene crown ages of
species-rich Neotropical clades thus … climatic changes on Neotropical rain forest vegetation …

The rise of the Andes promoted rapid diversification in Neotropical Phlegmariurus (Lycopodiaceae)

WL Testo, E Sessa, DS Barrington - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… a driver of diversification in the species-rich lycophyte genus … of our model test analysis;
trees were linked and rates were … by a ‘sea’ of tropical forest and dry valleys (Vuilleumier, 1971; …

Andean orogeny and the diversification of lowland neotropical rain forest trees: A case study in Sapotaceae

J Serrano, JE Richardson, RI Milne… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
diversify and evolve in species-rich areas like the lowland rain forest in the Neotropics is …
climatic fluctuations affected dispersal and diversification in the Sapotaceae subfamily …

Diversification of African rainforest restricted clades: Piptostigmateae and Annickieae (Annonaceae)

B Brée, AJ Helmstetter, K Bethune, JP Ghogue… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
… ) are species rich and occur in two main rainforest blocks: … of trees, shrubs and lianas that
are the most species-rich family … to a moist climate, rapid diversification of rainforest taxa and …

Patterns of variation in tree composition and richness in Neotropical Non‐Flooded Evergreen Forests

MA Cupertino‐Eisenlohr… - Applied Vegetation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Evidence of rapid evolutionary turnover and a high rate of … of the tree flora between blocks
of neotropical rain forests, … (more sites) and most species-rich floristic group in our study. This …

Plant phylogeny as a window on the evolution of hyperdiversity in the tropical rainforest biome

WL Eiserhardt, TLP Couvreur, WJ Baker - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
species-rich areas, and plant diversity gradients need to be unpicked at a finer scale. … in
the Neotropical tree genus Inga strongly suggests rapid diversification independent of absolute …

Accelerated diversification and functional trait evolution in Velloziaceae reveal new insights into the origins of the campos rupestres' exceptional floristic richness

S Alcantara, RH Ree, R Mello-Silva - Annals of botany, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… shifts to faster diversification occurred within two Neotropical … ), the most abundant and
species-rich vascular plant family in … We analysed diversification rates on the MCC tree pruned of …

Is Amazonia a 'museum'for Neotropical trees? The evolution of the Brownea clade (Detarioideae, Leguminosae)

…, A Bruneau, T Barraclough, F Forest… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
… in diversification rates. This would reveal whether particular sub-clades experienced faster
diversification and allow us to shed light on possible mechanisms to explain these shifts. …