Woody plant diversity, evolution, and ecology in the tropics: Perspectives from seasonally dry tropical forests

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 437-457

  Pennington, R Toby ^a   Lavin, Matt ^b   Oliveira Filho, Ary ^c  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dispersal limitation; Metacommunity; Phylogenetic community structure; Phylogenetic geographic structure; Phylogenetic niche conservatism

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOME; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DRY FOREST; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NICHE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SAVANNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODY PLANT;

EID: 73349144064     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120327     Document Type: Article

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