During the Pleistocene, long-term trends in global climate were controlled by orbital cycles
leading to high amplitude glacial-interglacial variability. The history of Amazonian vegetation …

Tropical tree height-diameter (H: D) relationships may vary by forest type and region making
large-scale estimates of above-ground biomass subject to bias if they ignore these …

Molecular phylogenetic studies have become a major area of interest in plant systematics,
and their impacts on historical biogeographic hypotheses are not to be disregarded. In …

Despite the theoretical link between the ecology and the population genetics of species, little
empirical evidence is available that corroborates the association. Here, we examined …

Environmental heterogeneity in the tropics is thought to lead to specialization in plants and
thereby contribute to the diversity of the tropical flora. We examine this idea with data on the …

Abstract Andean South America, including the adjacent lowland environments, can be
evaluated in reference to the patterns and processes that characterize plant diversity …

Stéphen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human
modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of …

Palaeoecologists argue that the vegetation of Amazonia has changed markedly since the
late Pleistocene and show that forest fires have been increasingly more common since the …

280 EDUARDO G. NEVES AND JAMES B. PETERSEN and dramatic events of sociocultural
change. Human landscape management in Amazonia has been exerted within this long …

Although Brazil nut (B. excelsa) is often touted as one of the most economically successful
NTFPs, little is known about the population structure of this species within its natural range in …