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What has become of the refugia hypothesis to explain biological diversity in Amazonia?
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- Niche-dependent forest and savanna fragmentation in Tropical South America during the Last Glacial Maximum.npj biodiversity · 2024Article
- Conservation units alone are insufficient to protect Brazilian Amazonian chelonians.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Whole genomes show contrasting trends of population size changes and genomic diversity for an Amazonian endemic passerine over the late quaternary.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The role of biogeographical barriers on the historical dynamics of passerine birds with a circum-Amazonian distribution.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- A camouflaged diversity: taxonomic revision of the thorny lacewing subfamily Symphrasinae (Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae).ZooKeys · 2024Article
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- News Feature: A sea in the Amazon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Individualistic evolutionary responses of Central African rain forest plants to Pleistocene climatic fluctuations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- An atypical mating system in a neotropical manakin.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- What has become of the refugia hypothesis to explain biological diversity in Amazonia?Ecology and evolution · 2019Review
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Abstract
The spatial distribution of biodiversity and related processes is the core of Biogeography. Amazonia is the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of diversity to several Neotropical regions. The origins of such diversity continue to be an unresolved question in evolutionary biology. Among many competing hypotheses to explain the evolution of the Amazonian biodiversity, one stands out as the most influential: the refugia hypothesis by Jürgen Haffer. Here, we provide a chronological overview on how the refugia hypothesis evolved over the decades and how the criticism from different fields affected its acceptance. We conclude that the refugia hypothesis alone cannot explain the diversification of the complex Amazonian diversity, and perhaps it was not the most important diversification mechanism. However, the debate provoked by refugia has produced a great amount of knowledge on Amazonian climatic, geological, and evolutionary processes, as well as on species distributions, movements, and history.
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