Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

A Antonelli, WD Kissling, SGA Flantua… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Mountains are key features of the Earth's surface and host a substantial proportion of the
world's species. However, the links between the evolution and distribution of biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

A Antonelli, M Ariza, J Albert, T Andermann, J Azevedo… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms

RE Onstein, WJ Baker, TLP Couvreur… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Animal-mediated seed dispersal by frugivorous birds and mammals is central to the ecology
and functioning of ecosystems, but whether and how frugivory-related traits have affected …

Integrating Earth–life systems: a geogenomic approach

GA Dolby, SEK Bennett, RJ Dorsey, MF Stokes… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
For centuries, scientists have recognized and worked to understand how Earth's mutable
landscape and climate shape the distribution and evolution of species. Here, we describe …

Contrasting patterns of diversification between Amazonian and Atlantic forest clades of Neotropical lianas (Amphilophium, Bignonieae) inferred from plastid genomic …

VA Thode, I Sanmartín, LG Lohmann - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mechanisms and processes underlying patterns of species distributions have intrigued
ecologists and biogeographers for a long time. The Neotropics is the most species-rich …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted capture of hundreds of nuclear genes unravels phylogenetic relationships of the diverse Neotropical palm tribe Geonomateae

O Loiseau, I Olivares, M Paris, M de La Harpe… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The tribe Geonomateae is a widely distributed group of 103 species of Neotropical palms
which contains six ecologically important understory or subcanopy genera. Although it has …

Volcanic events coincide with plant dispersal across the Northern Andes

MJ Sanín, A Cardona, WA Valencia-Montoya… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biological dispersal is increasingly seen as a primary driver of speciation across the tropical
Andes. Similarly, growing evidence suggests that the Northern Andes cordilleras formed as …

Diversity, endemism, and evolutionary history of montane biotas outside the Andean region

TB Guedes, JAR Azevedo, CD Bacon… - … : patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
Mountain ranges are important centers of biodiversity around the world. This high diversity is
the result of the presence of different soil types and underlying bedrock, a variety of micro …

Palms–emblems of tropical forests

H Balslev, R Bernal, MF Fay - Botanical Journal of the Linnean …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Palms (Arecaceae) are emblems of tropical forests and their alternative name used by
Endlicher, Principes (the princes among plants), suggests that they have always had a …

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 Neotropical leaf litter frog genus Pristimantis is very species-rich, with 526 species
described to date, but the full extent of its diversity is much higher and remains unknown …