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Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
Authors :
Slik, J.W. Ferry Franklin, Janet Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor Field, Richard Aguilar, Salomon Aguirre, Nikolay Ahumada, Jorge Aiba, Shin-Ichiro Alves, Luciana F. K, Anitha Avella, Andres Mora, Francisco Aymard C., Gerardo A. Báez, Selene Balvanera, Patricia Bastian, Meredith L. Bastin, Jean-François Bellingham, Peter J. van den Berg, Eduardo da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna Boeckx, Pascal Boehning-Gaese, Katrin Bongers, Frans Boyle, Brad Brambach, Fabian Brearley, Francis Q. Brown, Sandra Chai, Shauna-Lee Chazdon, Robin L. Chen, Shengbin Chhang, Phourin Chuyong, George Ewango, Corneille Coronado, Indiana M. Cristóbal-Azkarate, Jurgi Culmsee, Heike Damas, Kipiro Dattaraja, H. S. Davidar, Priya DeWalt, Saara J. Din, Hazimah Drake, Donald R. Duque, Alvaro Durigan, Giselda Eichhorn, Karl Eler, Eduardo Schmidt Enoki, Tsutomu Ensslin, Andreas Fandohan, Adandé Belarmain Farwig, Nina Feeley, Kenneth J. Fischer, Markus Forshed, Olle Garcia, Queila Souza Garkoti, Satish Chandra Gillespie, Thomas W. Gillet, Jean-Francois Gonmadje, Christelle Granzow-de la Cerda, Iñigo Griffith, Daniel M. Grogan, James Hakeem, Khalid Rehman Harris, David J. Harrison, Rhett D. Hector, Andy Hemp, Andreas Homeier, Jürgen Hussain, M. Shah Ibarra-Manríquez, Guillermo Hanum, I. Faridah Imai, Nobuo Jansen, Patrick A. Joly, Carlos Alfredo Joseph, Shijo Kartawinata, Kuswata Kearsley, Elizabeth Kelly, Daniel L. Kessler, Michael Killeen, Timothy J. Kooyman, Robert M. Laumonier, Yves Laurance, Susan G. Laurance, William F. Lawes, Michael J. Letcher, Susan G. Lindsell, Jeremy Lovett, Jon Lozada, Jose Lu, Xinghui Lykke, Anne Mette Mahmud, Khairil Bin Mahayani, Ni Putu Diana Mansor, Asyraf Marshall, Andrew R. Martin, Emanuel H. Calderado Leal Matos, Darley Meave, Jorge A. Melo, Felipe P.L. Mendoza, Zhofre Huberto Aguirre Metali, Faizah Medjibe, Vincent P. Metzger, Jean Paul Metzker, Thiago Mohandass, D. Munguía-Rosas, Miguel A. Muñoz, Rodrigo Nurtjahy, Eddy de Oliveira, Eddie Lenza Onrizal, N. Parolin, Pia Parren, Marc Parthasarathy, N. Paudel, Ekananda Perez, Rolando Pérez-García, Eduardo A. Pommer, Ulf Poorter, Lourens Qi, Lan Piedade, Maria Teresa F. Pinto, José Roberto Rodrigues Poulsen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Powers, Jennifer S. Prasad, Rama Chandra Puyravaud, Jean-Philippe Rangel, Orlando Reitsma, Jan Rocha, Diogo S.B. Rolim, Samir Rovero, Francesco Rozak, Andes Ruokolainen, Kalle Rutishauser, Ervan Rutten, Gemma Mohd. Said, Mohd. Nizam Saiter, Felipe Z. Saner, Philippe Santos, Braulio dos Santos, João Roberto Sarker, Swapan Kumar Schmitt, Christine B. Schoengart, Jochen Schulze, Mark Sheil, Douglas Sist, Plinio Souza, Alexandre F. Spironello, Wilson Roberto Sposito, Tereza Steinmetz, Robert Stevart, Tariq Suganuma, Marcio Seiji Sukri, Rahayu Sultana, Aisha Sukumar, Raman Sunderland, Terry Supriyadi, N. Suresh, H.S. Suzuki, Eizi Tabarelli, Marcelo Tang, Jianwei Tanner, Ed V.J. Targhetta, Natalia Theilade, Ida Thomas, Duncan Timberlake, Jonathan de Morisson Valeriano, Márcio van Valkenburg, Johan Van Do, Tran Van Sam, Hoang Vandermeer, John H. Verbeeck, Hans Vetaas, Ole Reidar Adekunle, Victor Vieira, Simone A. Webb, Campbell O. Webb, Edward L. Whitfeld, Timothy Wich, Serge Williams, John Wiser, Susan Wittmann, Florian Yang, Xiaobo Adou Yao, C. Yves Yap, Sandra L. Zahawi, Rakan A. Zakaria, Rahmad Zang, Runguo Slik, J.W. Ferry Franklin, Janet Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor Field, Richard Aguilar, Salomon Aguirre, Nikolay Ahumada, Jorge Aiba, Shin-Ichiro Alves, Luciana F. K, Anitha Avella, Andres Mora, Francisco Aymard C., Gerardo A. Báez, Selene Balvanera, Patricia Bastian, Meredith L. Bastin, Jean-François Bellingham, Peter J. van den Berg, Eduardo da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna Boeckx, Pascal Boehning-Gaese, Katrin Bongers, Frans Boyle, Brad Brambach, Fabian Brearley, Francis Q. Brown, Sandra Chai, Shauna-Lee Chazdon, Robin L. Chen, Shengbin Chhang, Phourin Chuyong, George Ewango, Corneille Coronado, Indiana M. Cristóbal-Azkarate, Jurgi Culmsee, Heike Damas, Kipiro Dattaraja, H. S. Davidar, Priya DeWalt, Saara J. Din, Hazimah Drake, Donald R. Duque, Alvaro Durigan, Giselda Eichhorn, Karl Eler, Eduardo Schmidt Enoki, Tsutomu Ensslin, Andreas Fandohan, Adandé Belarmain Farwig, Nina Feeley, Kenneth J. Fischer, Markus Forshed, Olle Garcia, Queila Souza Garkoti, Satish Chandra Gillespie, Thomas W. Gillet, Jean-Francois Gonmadje, Christelle Granzow-de la Cerda, Iñigo Griffith, Daniel M. Grogan, James Hakeem, Khalid Rehman Harris, David J. Harrison, Rhett D. Hector, Andy Hemp, Andreas Homeier, Jürgen Hussain, M. Shah Ibarra-Manríquez, Guillermo Hanum, I. Faridah Imai, Nobuo Jansen, Patrick A. Joly, Carlos Alfredo Joseph, Shijo Kartawinata, Kuswata Kearsley, Elizabeth Kelly, Daniel L. Kessler, Michael Killeen, Timothy J. Kooyman, Robert M. Laumonier, Yves Laurance, Susan G. Laurance, William F. Lawes, Michael J. Letcher, Susan G. Lindsell, Jeremy Lovett, Jon Lozada, Jose Lu, Xinghui Lykke, Anne Mette Mahmud, Khairil Bin Mahayani, Ni Putu Diana Mansor, Asyraf Marshall, Andrew R. Martin, Emanuel H. Calderado Leal Matos, Darley Meave, Jorge A. Melo, Felipe P.L. Mendoza, Zhofre Huberto Aguirre Metali, Faizah Medjibe, Vincent P. Metzger, Jean Paul Metzker, Thiago Mohandass, D. Munguía-Rosas, Miguel A. Muñoz, Rodrigo Nurtjahy, Eddy de Oliveira, Eddie Lenza Onrizal, N. Parolin, Pia Parren, Marc Parthasarathy, N. Paudel, Ekananda Perez, Rolando Pérez-García, Eduardo A. Pommer, Ulf Poorter, Lourens Qi, Lan Piedade, Maria Teresa F. Pinto, José Roberto Rodrigues Poulsen, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Powers, Jennifer S. Prasad, Rama Chandra Puyravaud, Jean-Philippe Rangel, Orlando Reitsma, Jan Rocha, Diogo S.B. Rolim, Samir Rovero, Francesco Rozak, Andes Ruokolainen, Kalle Rutishauser, Ervan Rutten, Gemma Mohd. Said, Mohd. Nizam Saiter, Felipe Z. Saner, Philippe Santos, Braulio dos Santos, João Roberto Sarker, Swapan Kumar Schmitt, Christine B. Schoengart, Jochen Schulze, Mark Sheil, Douglas Sist, Plinio Souza, Alexandre F. Spironello, Wilson Roberto Sposito, Tereza Steinmetz, Robert Stevart, Tariq Suganuma, Marcio Seiji Sukri, Rahayu Sultana, Aisha Sukumar, Raman Sunderland, Terry Supriyadi, N. Suresh, H.S. Suzuki, Eizi Tabarelli, Marcelo Tang, Jianwei Tanner, Ed V.J. Targhetta, Natalia Theilade, Ida Thomas, Duncan Timberlake, Jonathan de Morisson Valeriano, Márcio van Valkenburg, Johan Van Do, Tran Van Sam, Hoang Vandermeer, John H. Verbeeck, Hans Vetaas, Ole Reidar Adekunle, Victor Vieira, Simone A. Webb, Campbell O. Webb, Edward L. Whitfeld, Timothy Wich, Serge Williams, John Wiser, Susan Wittmann, Florian Yang, Xiaobo Adou Yao, C. Yves Yap, Sandra L. Zahawi, Rakan A. Zakaria, Rahmad Zang, Runguo
Abstract
Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world’s tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific responses to global environmental change. Modern phylogenies, in combination with broad coverage of species inventory data, now allow for global biogeographic analyses that take species evolutionary distance into account. Here we present a classification of the world’s tropical forests based on their phylogenetic similarity. We identify five principal floristic regions and their floristic relationships: (i) Indo-Pacific, (ii) Subtropical, (iii) African, (iv) American, and (v) Dry forests. Our results do not support the traditional neo- versus paleotropical forest division but instead separate the combined American and African forests from their Indo-Pacific counterparts. We also find indications for the existence of a global dry forest region, with representatives in America, Africa, Madagascar, and India. Additionally, a northern-hemisphere Subtropical forest region was identified with representatives in Asia and America, providing support for a link between Asian and American northern hemisphere forests.
Details
Database :
OAIster
Notes :
10.1073/pnas.1714977115
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1312909706
Document Type :
Electronic Resource