The contrasting nature of woody plant species in different neotropical forest biomes reflects differences in ecological stability

RT Pennington, M Lavin - New Phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… genetic diversity, the time to coalescence will be much faster … for young rain forest species
in many species-rich genera (eg … speciation, that many rain forest tree species may be young …

Patterns of species and lineage diversity in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

EA Peres, R Pinto-da-Rocha, LG Lohmann… - … diversification: patterns …, 2020 - Springer
… of diversity patterns along the Atlantic forest, and summarize main spatial patterns of plant
and animal diversity, … and structure of remaining tree assemblages. This data highlight that …

Hierarchies of evolutionary radiation in the world's most species rich vertebrate group, the Neotropical Pristimantis leaf litter frogs

EH Waddell, M Crotti, SC Lougheed… - Systematics and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… The tree used in this analysis was our maximum clade credibility (MCC) tree, pruned to include
… analyses suggest that diversification rates within the genus Pristimantis were faster at the …

Revisiting the hyperdominance of Neotropical tree species under a taxonomic, functional and evolutionary perspective

G Damasco, C Baraloto, A Vicentini, DC Daly… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
… lineages diversified very recently, ca. 0.6 Ma, throughout the tropical rain forests and …
With the advent of cheaper and more rapid techniques for both molecular systematics and …

Complete phylogeny of Micrathena spiders suggests multiple dispersal events among Neotropical rainforests, islands and landmasses, and indicates that Andean …

ILF Magalhaes, PH Martins, BT Faleiro… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
diversification rates in each area across all models and trees… Both indicate that species
richness in the Andes started rising … diversification took place relatively recently and rapidly, as its …

Rapid diversification and time explain amphibian richness at different scales in the Tropical Andes, Earth's most biodiverse hotspot

CR Hutter, SM Lambert, JJ Wiens - The American Naturalist, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
… of the entire Amazonian lowland rain forest (fig. 1), … species-rich family Hylidae into Hylinae
and Phyllomedusinae, which are each strongly supported subfamilies in the backbone tree (…

Parallel diversifications of Cremastosperma and Mosannona (Annonaceae), tropical rainforest trees tracking Neogene upheaval of South America

MD Pirie, PJM Maas, RA Wilschut… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… All of these species occur in wet tropical forests, and the majority have distributions that …
of rapid dispersal abilities of Amazon biota [64,65], such as species-rich Neotropical lowland …

Recent accelerated diversification in rosids occurred outside the tropics

M Sun, RA Folk, MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… Myr), followed by rapid diversification of crown groups (sensu … ancient, species-rich
communities in the tropics (the tropical … that seasonally dry tropical forests are poorly understood …

The evolution of extant South American tropical biomes

C Jaramillo - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… By contrast, a tropical forest with a canopy dominated by … and rapid increase in Neotropical
species diversity associated … ; and in the history of the species-rich clades of the páramo (eg …

The Neogene rise of the tropical Andes facilitated diversification of wax palms (Ceroxylon: Arecaceae) through geographical colonization and climatic niche …

MJ Sanín, WD Kissling, CD Bacon… - Botanical Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… The genus is one of four in tribe Ceroxyleae, the others being the most species-rich genus in
… Here, we reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogenetic tree with samples of all species, aiming …