Woody plant diversity, evolution, and ecology in the tropics: perspectives from seasonally dry tropical forests

RT Pennington, M Lavin… - Annual Review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
This review suggests that the ecology and patchy global distribution of seasonally dry
tropical forest (SDTF) has distinctively structured the evolutionary history and biogeography …

Legume nodulation: a global perspective

JI Sprent - 2009 - books.google.com
This important book provides a comprehensive review of our current knowledge of the
world's leguminous plants and their symbiotic bacteria. Written by Professor Janet Sprent, a …

Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

Dryflor, K Banda-R, A Delgado-Salinas, KG Dexter… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Seasonally dry tropical forests are distributed across Latin America and the Caribbean and
are highly threatened, with less than 10% of their original extent remaining in many …

Diversity and evolution of flowering plants of the Caatinga domain

LP de Queiroz, D Cardoso, MF Fernandes… - Caatinga: the largest …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Caatinga Domain (CD) in northeastern Brazil harbors the largest and most
continuous expanse of the seasonally dry tropical forest and woodland biome (SDTFW) in …

Medicinal plant use in two Andean communities located at different altitudes in the Bolívar Province, Peru

M Monigatti, RW Bussmann, CS Weckerle - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2013 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The study documents current medicinal plant
knowledge and use in two Andean communities and depicts the dynamic nature of …

Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests

T Särkinen, RT Pennington, M Lavin… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The tropical Andes are a world biodiversity hotspot. With diverse biomes and
dramatic, geologically recent mountain uplift, they offer a system to study the relative …

Mapping tree species vulnerability to multiple threats as a guide to restoration and conservation of tropical dry forests

T Fremout, E Thomas, H Gaisberger… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the vulnerability of tree species to anthropogenic threats is important for the
efficient planning of restoration and conservation efforts. We quantified and compared the …

Identity and relationships of the Arboreal Caatinga among other floristic units of seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) of north‐eastern and Central Brazil

RM Santos, AT Oliveira‐Filho, PV Eisenlohr… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The tree species composition of seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) in north‐eastern and
central Brazil is analyzed to address the following hypotheses:(1) variations in species …

Forgotten forests-issues and prospects in biome mapping using Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests as a case study

T Särkinen, JRV Iganci, R Linares-Palomino, MF Simon… - BMC ecology, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background South America is one of the most species diverse continents in the
world. Within South America diversity is not distributed evenly at both local and continental …

Environmental and historical controls of floristic composition across the South American Dry Diagonal

DM Neves, KG Dexter, RT Pennington… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim of this study was to test the role of environmental factors and spatially
autocorrelated processes, such as historical fragmentation and dispersal limitation, in …