Neogene history of the Amazonian flora: a perspective based on geological, palynological, and molecular phylogenetic data

C Hoorn, LG Lohmann, LM Boschman… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
The Amazon hosts one of the largest and richest rainforests in the world, but its origins
remain debated. Growing evidence suggests that geodiversity and geological history played …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of Amazonian biodiversity: A review

JM Guayasamin, CC Ribas, AC Carnaval… - Acta …, 2024‏ - SciELO Brasil
Amazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of
biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that …

Why mountains matter for biodiversity

A Perrigo, C Hoorn, A Antonelli - Journal of Biogeography, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mountains are arguably Earth's most striking features. They play a major role in determining
global and regional climates, are the source of most rivers, act as cradles, barriers and …

The evolutionary responses of life‐history strategies to climatic variability in flowering plants

JD Boyko, ER Hagen, JM Beaulieu… - New …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of annual or perennial strategies in flowering plants likely depends on a broad
array of temperature and precipitation variables. Previous documented climate life‐history …

Cenozoic seeds of Vitaceae reveal a deep history of extinction and dispersal in the Neotropics

F Herrera, MR Carvalho, GW Stull, C Jaramillo… - Nature Plants, 2024‏ - nature.com
The remarkably diverse plant communities of the Neotropics are the result of diversification
driven by multiple biotic (for example, speciation, extinction and dispersal) and abiotic (for …

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism

SGA Flantua, D Payne, MK Borregaard… - Global Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this
similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true islands”(land …

Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy

IC Romero, S Kong, CC Fowlkes, C Jaramillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Taxonomic resolution is a major challenge in palynology, largely limiting the ecological and
evolutionary interpretations possible with deep-time fossil pollen data. We present an …

Late Eocene (Priabonian) dinoflagellate cysts from Primorsky quarry, southeast Baltic coast, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

AI Iakovleva, GN Aleksandrova, EV Mychko - Palynology, 2022‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Forty-seven rock samples from the stratotypes of three upper Paleogene formations–
Prussian, Palvé, and Kurshskaya formations–were collected from the biggest amber deposit …

The central role of taxonomy in the study of neotropical biodiversity1

LP Lagomarsino, LA Frost - Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2020‏ - BioOne
The Neotropics are the most species-rich area of the planet. Understanding the origin and
maintenance of this diversity is an important goal of ecology and evolutionary biology …

Late Neogene megariver captures and the Great Amazonian biotic interchange

JS Albert, MJ Bernt, AH Fronk, JP Fontenelle… - Global and Planetary …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Recently published time-calibrated molecular phylogenies have brought to light a large-
scale biotic interchange between the Western and Eastern Amazon basins, associated with …