Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Individualistic evolutionary responses of Central African rain forest plants to Pleistocene climatic fluctuations

AJ Helmstetter, K Béthune… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the evolutionary dynamics of genetic diversity is fundamental for species
conservation in the face of climate change, particularly in hyper-diverse biomes. Species in …

[HTML][HTML]  The Trichoptera of Panama. XIX. Additions to and a review of the genus Leucotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) in Panama

RE Thomson, BJ Armitage, SC Harris - ZooKeys, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Prior to 2016, three species of caddisflies in the genus Leucotrichia (Trichoptera:
Hydroptilidae) were known from Panama. Subsequently, one new species and four new …

The onset of grasses in the Amazon drainage basin, evidence from the fossil record

JA Kirschner, C Hoorn - Frontiers of Biogeography, 2020 - escholarship.org
Poaceae (the grass family) originated in the Cretaceous, but first dominate the palynological
records of the Amazon drainage basin (ADB) in the Neogene (23 to 2.5 million years ago …

Diversification in birds is promoted by plant diversity, topographic heterogeneity and stable paleoclimate

X Wang, L Miao, X Huang, L Mao, T Cai… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Long‐term climate stability, contemporary climate and environmental heterogeneity
have been linked to bird diversity patterns through their direct impacts on diversification rate …

The role of biogeographical barriers on the historical dynamics of passerine birds with a circum‐Amazonian distribution

SD Bolívar‐Leguizamón, F Bocalini… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Common distributional patterns have provided the foundations of our knowledge of
Neotropical biogeography. A distinctive pattern is the “circum‐Amazonian distribution” …

Sister species, different histories: comparative phylogeography of two bird species associated with Amazonian open vegetation

CD Ritter, LA Coelho, JM Capurucho… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Although the expansion of open vegetation within Amazonia was the basis for the Forest
Refugia hypothesis, studies of Amazonian biota diversification have focussed mostly on …

Environmental and anthropogenic predictors influence the diversity of nonflying mammals in a native savanna landscape of Northern South America

F Mosquera-Guerra, N Moreno-Niño… - … Journal of Zoology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The native savannas of eastern Colombia cover about six percent of the Neotropical
savannas. Within these 17 million hectares, the current composition of nonflying mammals …

Phytophysiognomy in the east of the Marajó island (mouth of the Amazon River) from the perspective of geological history in the Late Quaternary

DD do Amaral, D de Fátima Rossetti, ESC Gurgel… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
The origin of many ecological environments that have controlled plant development in
Amazonia has been linked to Andean growth in the Neogene and/or glacial/interglacial …

Filtering effect of large rivers on primate distribution in the Brazilian Amazonia

Í Mourthé, RR Hilário, WD Carvalho… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Over a century after Wallace's proposition of the riverine barrier hypothesis, the role of rivers
in the diversification of species remains a matter of interest in Amazon biogeography …