Environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Paz ◽  
Jason L. Brown ◽  
Carlos L. O. Cordeiro ◽  
Julian Aguirre‐Santoro ◽  
Claydson Assis ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 349 ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.R. Andrade ◽  
J.G. Jardim ◽  
B.A. Santos ◽  
F.P.L. Melo ◽  
D.C. Talora ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1720-1732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Rodrigues Silva ◽  
Mário Almeida-Neto ◽  
Vitor Hugo Mendonça do Prado ◽  
Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad ◽  
Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres

PLoS ONE ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. e12625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bráulio A. Santos ◽  
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez ◽  
Claudia E. Moreno ◽  
Marcelo Tabarelli

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5060 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-332
Author(s):  
PAULA NILDA FERGNANI ◽  
ADRIANA RUGGIERO

We evaluate the role of biogeographical affinity in shaping relationships between ecological diversity as a proxy of functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity and their association with environmental variation, across tropical and temperate latitudes of the Americas. If environmental niches are evolutionarily conserved, high mammal taxa of tropical and temperate affinity will show consistent differences in these relationships. Accordingly, mammal groups of tropical affinity (old-autochthonous: marsupials and xenarthrans; and mid-Cenozoic immigrants: hystricognaths and primates) show stronger positive correlations between ecological and phylogenetic diversity within the tropics than those from extra-tropical latitudes where newcomers from North America (artiodactyls) show the strongest positive correlations. The other group of newcomers (carnivorans), however, show a peak in the association that include both tropical and extra-tropical latitudes of South America. Climate predominates over topographic relief in structuring the spatial variation of ecological and phylogenetic mammal diversity. The environmental structuring of ecological and phylogenetic mammal diversity across the Americas is more complex than expected from a latitudinal diversity gradient. Dry seasonal tropical habitats generated considerable heterogeneity in relationships between ecological and phylogenetic diversity and their association with environmental correlates. We conclude that biogeographical affinity and regional associations between the different components of diversity and the environment should be considered for a comprehensive explanation of covariation between ecological and phylogenetic diversity on a continental scale.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valdecir Silva-Junior ◽  
Danielle G. Souza ◽  
Rubens T. Queiroz ◽  
Luiz G. R. Souza ◽  
Elâine M. S. Ribeiro ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 2322-2331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Zamborlini Saiter ◽  
Jason L. Brown ◽  
William Wayt Thomas ◽  
Ary T. de Oliveira-Filho ◽  
Ana Carolina Carnaval

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 414-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
André do Amaral Nogueira ◽  
Cibele Bragagnolo ◽  
Márcio Bernardino DaSilva ◽  
Leonardo Sousa Carvalho ◽  
Alípio Rezende Benedetti ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 1160-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason L. Brown ◽  
Andrea Paz ◽  
Marcelo Reginato ◽  
Cecilia Amaro Renata ◽  
Claydson Assis ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Thales da Motta Portillo ◽  
Fausto Erritto Barbo ◽  
Josué Anderson Rêgo Azevedo ◽  
Ricardo Jannini Sawaya

Understanding variation of species richness along latitudinal gradients, with more species toward the tropics, represents a challenge for ecologists. Species richness also varies according to the available area, with more species in larger regions, with area and latitude posited as major drivers of richness variations. However, species richness does not fully capture the evolutionary history behind those patterns. Phylogenetic diversity can provide insights on the role of time and evolutionary drivers of environmental gradients. We analyzed here the latitudinal gradient of endemic snakes from the Atlantic Forest of South America, a megadiverse and highly threatened portion of the Neotropics. We assessed the effect of area and average clade age on species richness and phylogenetic diversity, testing whether species richness and phylogenetic diversity increase with area availability and in lower latitudes. We found that area can predict species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity. Brazilian southeastern mountain ranges include larger patches of Atlantic Forest and the highest richness levels, but generally harboring snakes from relatively recent clades (neoendemics). There is a negative relationship between species richness and average clade age along the latitudinal gradient, with older clades found mainly in northern portions, increasing phylogenetic diversity at lower latitudes. Different dimensions of diversity, species richness and phylogenetic diversity, are thus affected in different ways by area and time for speciation in the Atlantic Forest, and this may be a trend in highly diverse tropical regions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 3909-3917 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Thales da Motta Portillo ◽  
Lilian Sayuri Ouchi‐Melo ◽  
Lucas Batista Crivellari ◽  
Thiago Alves Lopes Oliveira ◽  
Ricardo J. Sawaya ◽  
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