Amazonia through time: Andean uplift, climate change, landscape evolution, and biodiversity

C Hoorn, FP Wesselingh, H Ter Steege, MA Bermudez… - science, 2010 - science.org
The Amazonian rainforest is arguably the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem in the
world, yet the timing of the origin and evolutionary causes of this diversity are a matter of …

[HTML][HTML] Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

S Madriñán, AJ Cortés, JE Richardson - Frontiers in genetics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the processes that cause speciation is a key aim of evolutionary biology.
Lineages or biomes that exhibit recent and rapid diversification are ideal model systems for …

Evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China

LM Lu, LF Mao, T Yang, JF Ye, B Liu, HL Li, M Sun… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
High species diversity may result from recent rapid speciation in a 'cradle'and/or the gradual
accumulation and preservation of species over time in a 'museum',. China harbours nearly …

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

O Hagen, A Skeels, RE Onstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

H Ter Steege, NCA Pitman, D Sabatier, C Baraloto… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree
communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and …

The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in A ndean bellflowers (Campanulaceae)

LP Lagomarsino, FL Condamine, A Antonelli… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The tropical Andes of South America, the world's richest biodiversity hotspot, are
home to many rapid radiations. While geological, climatic, and ecological processes …

Phylogenies and community ecology

CO Webb, DD Ackerly, MA McPeek… - Annual review of …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

CA Quesada, OL Phillips, M Schwarz… - …, 2012 - bg.copernicus.org
Forest structure and dynamics vary across the Amazon Basin in an east-west gradient
coincident with variations in soil fertility and geology. This has resulted in the hypothesis that …

Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics?

A Antonelli, I Sanmartín - Taxon, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Neotropical region (tropical America) is the most species rich region on Earth.
Several causes have been proposed to explain this extraordinary biodiversity, which may be …

[图书][B] Manual of leaf architecture

B Ellis, DC Daly, LJ Hickey, KR Johnson, JD Mitchell… - 2009 - repository.si.edu
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Manual of Leaf Architecture Licensed under Creative Commons
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International). To reprint this work in …