Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

MR Carvalho, C Jaramillo, F de la Parra… - Science, 2021 - science.org
… and ecological change in tropical forests resulting from the end-… species-rich Danian
megafloral assemblages with diverse types of insect damage indicate rapid recovery of diversity in …

The tropical Andean plant diversity powerhouse

CE Hughes - New Phytologist, 2016 - JSTOR
… Their study of diversification of a species-rich clade of Andean … In the low elevation
seasonally dry tropical forests of the … Somewhat younger and faster species-rich, late Miocene or …

Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera …

P Matos-Maraví, N Wahlberg… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… We inferred a robust species tree using the multispecies … Neotropics, where butterfly
species have diversified rapidly (… , a species-rich region can have attained its present diversity

Bayesian spatio‐temporal reconstruction reveals rapid diversification and Pleistocene range expansion in the widespread columnar cactus Pilosocereus

P Lavor, A Calvente, LM Versieux… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
tropical forest biome but can also be found in xeric microhabitats inside woody savannas
(Cerrado) and moist forests (Brazilian Atlantic forest… We then used whole-tree episodic BD …

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

A Antonelli, M Ariza, J Albert, T Andermann, J Azevedo… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
… restricted to non-flooded rain forests. Dynamic river capture is … This rapid pace of species
description is not slowing down, … species-rich Neotropical clades still in the full bloom of their …

Phylogeny and diversification history of the large Neotropical genus Philodendron (Araceae): Accelerated speciation in a lineage dominated by epiphytes

D Canal, N Köster, KE Jones… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… time-calibrated phylogenetic trees of species-rich Neotropical lineages such as Philodendron
are … Most of the species diversity in the genus Philodendron originated rapidly and recently …

Climbing mechanisms and the diversification of neotropical climbing plants across time and space

P Sperotto, N Roque, P Acevedo‐Rodríguez… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… ) tend to be more species-rich than those presenting other types … tendrils would lead to
faster diversification rates in climbing … Based on this premise, tropical forests with well-structured …

Leaf trait variation in species-rich tropical Andean forests

J Homeier, T Seeler, K Pierick, C Leuschner - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
… communities primarily through phylogenetic diversity. In the … -poor extra-tropical forests,
where tree species show large … tree life strategies from each study site, covering fast-growing …

An updated plant checklist of the Brazilian Caatinga seasonally dry forests and woodlands reveals high species richness and endemism

MF Fernandes, D Cardoso, LP de Queiroz - Journal of Arid environments, 2020 - Elsevier
… zones with surrounding savannas and rain forests. This newly … being among the most species
rich genera in the Caatinga. … , tools are now available for rapidly assembling species lists. …

Phylogenetic analysis of Attalea (Arecaceae): insights into the historical biogeography of a recently diversified Neotropical plant group

C Freitas, AW Meerow, JC Pintaud… - Botanical Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… Attalea, species-rich and widespread in the region, is an … represent the effects of rapid
divergence and hybridization. All … migrated from drier ecosystems to tropical rain forests). In Attalea…