Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

J Cavender-Bares, FD Schneider, MJ Santos… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Remote sensing has transformed the monitoring of life on Earth by revealing spatial and
temporal dimensions of biological diversity through structural, compositional and functional …

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 …

Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna

FAS Cassemiro, JS Albert, A Antonelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Landscape dynamics are widely thought to govern the tempo and mode of continental
radiations, yet the effects of river network rearrangements on dispersal and lineage …

The historical connections between the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest revisited

RMD Ledo, GR Colli - Journal of biogeography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess ancient biotic connections between the Amazon Forest (AmF) and the
Atlantic Forest (AtF) based on environmental niche modelling (ENM), palaeobiological, and …

PaleoView: a tool for generating continuous climate projections spanning the last 21 000 years at regional and global scales

DA Fordham, F Saltré, S Haythorne, TML Wigley… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
It has been difficult to access projections of global‐scale climate change with high temporal
resolution spaning the late Pleistocene and Holocene. This has limited our ability to discern …

Neotropical forest expansion during the last glacial period challenges refuge hypothesis

YLR Leite, LP Costa, AC Loss… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The forest refuge hypothesis (FRH) has long been a paradigm for explaining the extreme
biological diversity of tropical forests. According to this hypothesis, forest retraction and …

Evolutionary history of the flora of Mexico: Dry forests cradles and museums of endemism

V Sosa, JA De‐Nova… - Journal of Systematics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mexico is considered an exceptional biogeographic area with a varied endemic flora,
however spatial phylogenetic measures of biodiversity have not yet been estimated to …

Biome stability in South America over the last 30 kyr: Inferences from long‐term vegetation dynamics and habitat modelling

GC Costa, A Hampe, MP Ledru… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to examine the links between past biome stability, vegetation dynamics
and biodiversity patterns. Location South America. Time period Last 30,000 years. Major …

The Atlantic Forest: an introduction to the megadiverse forest of South America

MCM Marques, W Trindade, A Bohn… - The Atlantic Forest: History …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Atlantic Forest, the second largest forest in South America and one of the most
biodiverse biomes in the world, is also one of the most threatened and important for …

Biogeography of Neotropical Rainforests: past connections between Amazon and Atlantic Forest detected by ecological niche modeling

T Sobral-Souza, MS Lima-Ribeiro, VN Solferini - Evolutionary Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract During Paleogene the Neotropical region was mainly covered by rainforests and
ancient Amazon (AM) and Atlantic Forest (AF) were continuous and interconnected. The …