Neotropical Diversification : Patterns and Processes /: Patterns and Processes. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Valentí Rull, Ana Carolina Carnaval.
• Editors: Rull, Valentí; Carnaval, Ana Carolina
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1. Neotropical diversity and diversification.- Chapter 2. Neotropical diversification: historical overview and conceptual insights.- Chapter 3. Beyond refugia: New insights on Quaternary climate variation and the evolution of biotic diversity in tropical South America.- Chapter 4. Tropical and subtropical in South America: a study of community turnover across environmental gradients.- Chapter 5. Evolutionary macroecology and the geographical patterns of Neotropical diversification.- Chapter 6. Evolutionary imprints on species distribution patterns across the Neotropics.- Chapter 7. Avian diversity in humid tropical and subtropical south American forests, with a discussion about their related climatic and geological underpinnings.- Chapter 8. Contrasting patterns of temporal diversification in Neotropical butterflies: An overview.- Chapter 9. Diatom diversity and biogeography across tropical South America.- Part 2. Regional biodiversity patterns and diversification processes.- Chapter 10. The origin and evolution of Amazonian species diversity.- Chapter 11. Patterns and processes of diversification in Amazonian white sand ecosystems: insights from birds and plants.- Chapter 12. Human contribution to Amazonian plant diversity: legacy of pre-Columbian land use in modern plant communities.- Chapter 13. On the young savannas in the land of ancient forests.- Chapter 14. The diversification of extant Angiosperms in the South America dry diagonal.- Chapter 15. Diversity, endemism, and evolutionary history of montane biotas outside the Andean region.- Chapter 16. Patterns of species and lineage diversity in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil.- Chapter 17. Diversification in ancient and nutrient-poor Neotropical ecosystems: how geological and climatic buffering have shaped plant diversity in some of the world's neglected hotspots .- Chapter 18. Bioregions of Eastern Brazil, based on vascular plant occurrence data.- Chapter 19. Forests diversity in the Mexican neotropics: A paleocological view.- Chapter 20. Historical biogeography of Caribbean plants revises regional paleogeography.- Part 3. Taxon-based local and regional studies.- Chapter 21. Amphibians and reptiles of Venezuelan Guayana: diversity, biogeography and conservation.- Chapter 22. Origin of elevational replacements in a clade of nearly flightless birds – most diversity in tropical mountains accumulates via secondary contact following allopatric speciation.- Chapter 23. Clade-specific biogeographic history and climatic niche shifts of the southern Andean-southern Brazilian disjunction in plants.- Chapter 24. Biotic and landscape evolution in an Amazonian contact zone: insights from the herpetofauna of the Tapajós River basin.- Chapter 25. Diversification processes in lizards and snakes from the middle São Francisco River dune region.- Chapter 26. Unexpected beta-diversity radiations in highland clades of Andean Terraranae frogs.- Chapter 27. Disparate patterns of diversification within Liolaemini lizards.- Chapter 28. Diversification history of Neotropical Lecythidaceae, an ecologically dominant tree family of Amazon rain forest.- Part 4. IV. Epilogue.- Chapter 29. Conservation in the Neotropics – a final reflection.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (820 pages)
• Subjects: Life sciences; Animal systematics; Animal taxonomy; Biodiversity; Evolutionary biology; Plant systematics; Plant taxonomy; Community ecology, Biotic; Animal ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Biodiversity; Evolution; Botany & plant sciences; Animal ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General; Zoology & animal sciences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030311674
• Related ISBNs: 9783030311667
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