Linking high diversification rates of rapidly growing Amazonian plants to geophysical landscape transformations promoted by Andean uplift

FOG Figueiredo, T André, GM Moulatlet… - Botanical Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… a model group the species-rich Neotropical family Marantaceae. … evolutionary history of
tropical forests and helps elucidate … trees and obtained the maximum clade credibility (MCC) tree

Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation

DM Neves, KG Dexter, TR Baker… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
… latitudinal diversity gradient for flowering plants (angiosperms), which are most species-rich
deforestation’ where habitat alteration has been rapid and pervasive 39 , and where climate …

The impact of rainforest area reduction in the Guineo‐Congolian region on the tempo of diversification and habitat shifts in the Berlinia clade (Leguminosae)

…, S Cervantes, SB Janssens, F Forest… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… overall trend of reduction in tropical forest area in Africa increased… the species-rich genera.
Thus, the apparent acceleration of … rapid diversification of several genera of the Berlinia clade. …

Slowly but surely: gradual diversification and phenotypic evolution in the hyper-diverse tree fern family Cyatheaceae

O Loiseau, A Weigand, S Noben, J Rolland… - Annals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… We tested whether the high diversity of Cyatheaceae is the result of episodes of rapid … ,
unlike many species-rich groups, the family Cyatheaceae is an old lineage that diversified at an …

Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin

KG Dexter, M Lavin, BM Torke… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
tree communities across Amazonia using a newly developed phylogeny for the species-rich
neotropical tree genus … is an important tree lineage in terms of its diversity and abundance in …

[HTML][HTML] Atlantic forests to the all Americas: Biogeographical history and divergence times of Neotropical Ficus (Moraceae)

AFP Machado, N Rønsted, S Bruun-Lund… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
… for understanding diversification in species rich biomes such … of diversification patterns and
processes in the tropical forests. … We executed 1000 rapid bootstrap inferences and, thereafter…

Rapid diversification rates in Amazonian Chrysobalanaceae inferred from plastid genome phylogenetics

J Chave, C Sothers, A Iribar, U Suescun… - Botanical Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… changes in diversification rates across the phylogenetic tree, … ), savannas and seasonally
dry tropical forests (including the … Species-rich genera of the Neotropical clade diversified in …

Dissecting the difference in tree species richness between Africa and South America

PL Silva de Miranda, KG Dexter… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… Plant diversity is not evenly distributed across the biosphere… species rich than other regions,
and moist tropical forests … are species rich on one continent are most likely species rich on …

Advances and perspectives on the evolutionary history and diversification of Neotropical Myrteae (Myrtaceae)

JD De Souza Neto, EK Dos Santos… - Botanical Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Myrteae are the most species-rich tribe, including 51 … rapid change, extinctions and adaptive
radiations) can be observed on a phylogenetic tree, revealing the evolution of the diversity

Recent and local diversification of Central American understorey palms

Á Cano, FW Stauffer, T Andermann… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
species-rich American palm clades indicative of rain forests. … and biogeographical history
with the diversification of 54 other … We sampled 100 random trees from the pool of BI trees (burn…