Diversification of the Amazonian Flora and its Relation to key Geological and Environmental Events: A Molecular Perspective

Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 373-385

  Pennington, R Toby ^a   Dick, Christopher W ^b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

'phylogenetic niche conservatism' concept; Amazon plant diversification in context of migration of lineages; Andean dry forest speciation and high elevation taxa; Biogeographical hypotheses and Neogene Amazon history; Diversification of Amazonian flora and key geological and environmental events; Gondwana and boreotropical origins of Amazonian flora; Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) nuclear region sequenced across diverse plant lineages; Molecular perspective on Neogene plant diversification in Amazon drainage basin; Pleistocene refugia, effecting population genetic structure of tree species; Sweepstakes dispersal DNA sequence phylogeography and molecular clock methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886104010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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