Historical climate change and speciation: neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary diversification

Toby Pennington, R.; Lavin, Matt; E. Prado, Darién; A. Pendry, Colin; K. Pell, Susan; A. Butterworth, Charles

doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1435

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Historical climate change and speciation: neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary diversification

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences • Mar 29, 2004

Authors:

R. Toby Pennington

Matt Lavin

Darién E. Prado

Abstract

Historical climate changes have had a major effect on the distribution and evolution of plant species in the neotropics. What is more controversial is whether relatively recent Pleistocene climatic changes have driven speciation, or whether neotropical species diversity is more ancient. This questio...

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Vicariance

Ecology

Pleistocene

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