ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Dissecting the difference in tree species richness between Africa and South America.
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- Inversion of the latitudinal diversity gradient at high taxonomic level in liverworts revealed by a phylogenetically deconstructive approach.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Evidence of thermophilization in Afromontane forests.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change.Nature communications · 2024Article
- One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Assessing vegetation cover and valuing ecosystem services in southwestern Ethiopia: Implications for conservation.PloS one · 2024Article
- Exceptional endemicity of Aotearoa New Zealand biota shows how taxa dispersal traits, but not phylogeny, correlate with global species richness.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2024Article
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- Angiosperm phylogenetic diversity is lower in Africa than South America.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
SignificanceOur full-scale comparison of Africa and South America's lowland tropical tree floras shows that both Africa and South America's moist and dry tree floras are organized similarly: plant families that are rich in tree species on one continent are also rich in tree species on the other continent, and these patterns hold across moist and dry environments. Moreover, we confirm that there is an important difference in tree species richness between the two continents, which is linked to a few families that are exceptionally diverse in South American moist forests, although dry formations also contribute to this difference. Plant families only present on one of the two continents do not contribute substantially to differences in tree species richness.
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