Phylobetadiversity among forest types in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest complex.

ABSTRACT: Phylobetadiversity is defined as the phylogenetic resemblance between communities or biomes. Analyzing phylobetadiversity patterns among different vegetation physiognomies within a single biome is crucial to understand the historical affinities between them. Based on the widely accepted idea that different forest physiognomies within the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest constitute different facies of a single biome, we hypothesize that more recent phylogenetic nodes should drive phylobetadiversity gradients between the different forest types within the Atlantic Forest, as the phylogenetic divergence among those forest types is biogeographically recent. We compiled information from 206 checklists describing the occurrence of shrub/tree species across three different forest physiognomies w

SUBMITTER: Duarte Lda S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4133375 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature