Cenozoic colonization and diversification patterns of tropical American palms: Evidence from Astrocaryum (Arecaceae)

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 120-139

  Roncal, Julissa ^a   Kahn, Francis ^a   Millan, Betty ^b   Couvreur, Thomas L P ^a   Pintaud, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

Ancestral range reconstruction; Andean uplift; Dispersal; Diversification rate shifts; Extinction and cladogenesis (DEC) model; Guiana Shield; Middle Miocene climatic optimum; Pebas; Western Amazon

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENOZOIC; COLONIZATION; DNA; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EVERGREEN TREE; EXTINCTION; MIOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UPLIFT;

GUYANA SHIELD; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ARECACEAE; ASTROCARYUM; MYA;

EID: 84871188941     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01297.x     Document Type: Article

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