Título: | Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees |
Autor: | Baker, Timothy R. Pennington, R. Toby Magallón, Susana Gloor, Manuel E. Laurance, William F. Alexiades, Miguel N. Alvarez, Esteban Araújo, Alejandro Arets, Eric J.M.M. Aymard, Gerardo Antonio C. Oliveira, Átila Cristina Alves de Amaral, Iêda Leão do Arroyo, Luzmila P. Bonal, Damien Brienen, Roel J.W. Chave, Jérôme Dexter, Kyle Graham Di Fiore, Anthony Eler, Eduardo Schmidt Feldpausch, Ted R. Ferreira, Leandro Valle Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela Van Der Heijden, Geertje M.F. Higuchi, Niro Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau Killeen, Timothy J. Laurance, Susan G.W. Leaño, Claudio Lewis, Simon L. Malhi, Yadvinder Singh Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel Neill, David A. Peñuela, María Cristina Pitman, Nigel C.A. Prieto, Adriana Quesada, Carlos Alberto Ramirez Arevalo, Fredy Francisco Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma Rudas, Agustín Ruschel, Ademir Roberto Salomão, Rafael Paiva Andrade, Ana Cristina Segalin de Silva, Jose Natalino Macedo Silveira, Marcos Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni Spironello, Wilson Roberto Steege, Hans Ter Terborgh, John W. Toledo, Marisol Torres-Lezama, Armando Vásquez, Rodolfo V. Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia Vilanova, Emilio Vos, Vincent A. Phillips, Oliver L. |
Palavras-chave: | Biodiversity Biological Model Diversity Generation Time Letter Physiology South America Traits Tree Tropic Climate Tropical Rain Forest Turnover Time Diversity Generation Time Traits Tropical Forest Turnover Biodiversity Models, Biological South America Trees Tropical Climate |
Data do documento: | 2014 |
Revista: | Ecology Letters |
É parte de: | Volume 17, Número 5, Pags. 527-536 |
Abstract: | The Amazon rain forest sustains the world's highest tree diversity, but it remains unclear why some clades of trees are hyperdiverse, whereas others are not. Using dated phylogenies, estimates of current species richness and trait and demographic data from a large network of forest plots, we show that fast demographic traits - short turnover times - are associated with high diversification rates across 51 clades of canopy trees. This relationship is robust to assuming that diversification rates are either constant or decline over time, and occurs in a wide range of Neotropical tree lineages. This finding reveals the crucial role of intrinsic, ecological variation among clades for understanding the origin of the remarkable diversity of Amazonian trees and forests. © 2014 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and CNRS. |
DOI: | 10.1111/ele.12252 |
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