Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation
dc.contributor.author | Neves, DM | |
dc.contributor.author | Dexter, KG | |
dc.contributor.author | Baker, TR | |
dc.contributor.author | Coelho de Souza, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Oliveira-Filho, AT | |
dc.contributor.author | Queiroz, LP | |
dc.contributor.author | Lima, HC | |
dc.contributor.author | Simon, MF | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, GP | |
dc.contributor.author | Segovia, RA | |
dc.contributor.author | Arroyo, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Reynel, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Marcelo-Peña, JL | |
dc.contributor.author | Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Villarroel, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Parada, GA | |
dc.contributor.author | Daza, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Linares-Palomino, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferreira, LV | |
dc.contributor.author | Salomão, RP | |
dc.contributor.author | Siqueira, GS | |
dc.contributor.author | Nascimento, MT | |
dc.contributor.author | Fraga, CN | |
dc.contributor.author | Pennington, RT | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-04T10:14:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-24 | |
dc.description.abstract | Global patterns of species and evolutionary diversity in plants are primarily determined by a temperature gradient, but precipitation gradients may be more important within the tropics, where plant species richness is positively associated with the amount of rainfall. The impact of precipitation on the distribution of evolutionary diversity, however, is largely unexplored. Here we detail how evolutionary diversity varies along precipitation gradients by bringing together a comprehensive database on the composition of angiosperm tree communities across lowland tropical South America (2,025 inventories from wet to arid biomes), and a new, large-scale phylogenetic hypothesis for the genera that occur in these ecosystems. We find a marked reduction in the evolutionary diversity of communities at low precipitation. However, unlike species richness, evolutionary diversity does not continually increase with rainfall. Rather, our results show that the greatest evolutionary diversity is found in intermediate precipitation regimes, and that there is a decline in evolutionary diversity above 1,490 mm of mean annual rainfall. If conservation is to prioritise evolutionary diversity, areas of intermediate precipitation that are found in the South American ‘arc of deforestation’, but which have been neglected in the design of protected area networks in the tropics, merit increased conservation attention. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (NSF) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, article 1188 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-019-55621-w | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/I028122/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | SISBIOTA 563084/2010-3 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 236805/2012-6 PDE CsF | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 305617/2018-4 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | DEB-1556651 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 12053537 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124997 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gf1vhhmk0 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-04T10:14:09Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Time-calibrated molecular phylogenies are deposited at the Dryad Digital Repository (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gf1vhhmk0). A full description with details of data accessibility for Neo-TropTree can be found at http://www.neotroptree.info/. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-11-13 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-11-13 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-03-04T10:03:24Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-03-04T10:15:01Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA |
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