Global diversification o f a tropical plant growth form: Environmental correlates and historical contingencies in climbing palms

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Couvreur, T L P ^a,b   Kissling, W D ^c   Condamine, F L ^d   Svenning, J C ^e   Rowe, N P ^f,g   Baker, W J ^h  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BAMM; ClaSSE; Dipterocarpaceae; Growth form; Lianas; Plant traits; Rattans; Tropical rain forest evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CANOPY; CHAMAEDOREA; CLIMATE; CONTEMPORARY CLIMATE; DESMONCUS; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; DYPSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLOBAL DIVERSIFICATION; LAND BIOME; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ARECACEAE; CLADISTICS; CLADOGENETICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMBING PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOCENE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLESIOMORPHY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ARECACEAE; DIPTEROCARPACEAE;

EID: 84917679747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00452     Document Type: Article

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