Pollinators drive floral evolution in an Atlantic Forest genus

B Neves, IM Kessous, RL Moura, DR Couto… - AoB Plants, 2020 - academic.oup.com
diversification at both micro- and macroevolutionary scales. Both hummingbirds and bats
pollinate the species-rich and morphologically diverse genus … We sampled trees every 1000 …

Out of Amazonia and back again: historical biogeography of the species-rich Neotropical genus Philodendron (Araceae) 1

D Canal, N Köster, M Celis, TB Croat, T Borsch… - Annals of the Missouri …, 2019 - BioOne
… the backbone of the genus Philodendron in our BEAST tree (Fig. 1)… ) predominantly occur in
dense rainforests where they have … young and rapidly diversifying subgenus Philodendron, a …

Insectivorous birds in the Neotropics: Ecological radiations, specialization, and coexistence in species-rich communities

TW Sherry, CM Kent, NV Sánchez, ÇH Şekercioğlu - The Auk, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… mainland Neotropics, we use the phrase “ecological diversification… ” each other more
frequently than tree species in terms of … We argue that the kind of rapid species divergence …

Drivers of exceptional Neotropical biodiversity: an updated view

C Palma-Silva, AC Turchetto-Zolet… - Botanical Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… the evolution of the high species richness in such tropical forests. … They provide a time-calibrated
tree that resolves the … of new species and rapid diversification of species-rich radiations, …

Hybridization: a 'double-edged sword'for Neotropical plant diversity

RJ Schley, AD Twyford… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
species-rich plant radiations from the Andean páramos, suggesting a role for hybridization in
rapid diversification … Among herbaceous plants found in montane tropical forests, there are …

Contrasting patterns of temporal diversification in Neotropical butterflies: an overview

AVZ Brower, IJ Garzón-Orduña - Neotropical diversification: Patterns and …, 2020 - Springer
… the expansion and diversity of tropical rain forest was underway but … These mostly small,
brown, fast-flying butterflies have only … That is to say, species-rich groups have been found to be …

The origin and diversification of the hyperdiverse flora in the Chocó biogeographic region

OA Pérez-Escobar, E Lucas, C Jaramillo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
diversification rates could reveal how frequent in-situ diversification is and it is restricted to
rapidly diversifying … for sharing pictures of the Chocó rain forest and Alexandre Zuntini for …

[HTML][HTML] … forests: integrating long monitoring tree plot data with metabolomics and phylogenetics for the description of a new species in the hyperdiverse genus Inga …

JEG Andino, C Hernández, R Valencia, D Forrister… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
… In addition, tropical forests harbor a large number of … a more rapid collection of fertile
specimens for tree species … of species discovery in species-rich groups of Amazonian trees. In our …

Can plant DNA barcoding be implemented in species-rich tropical regions? A perspective from São Paulo State, Brazil

RAF Lima, AA Oliveira, GD Colletta… - … and Molecular Biology, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
… This area has high plant diversity and endemism, but also has … ), and the rain forest over
clayey soils. In addition to the … We performed rapid surveys in 40 forest fragments in 38 counties …

Biogeography of Stigmaphyllon (Malpighiaceae) and a Meta-Analysis of Vascular Plant Lineages Diversified in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforests Point to the Late …

RF de Almeida, C van Den Berg - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
… Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTFs) … tree every 1000 generations for a total of ten
million generations. We excluded as ‘burn-in’ trees from the first two million generations, and tree