The Brazilian freshwater wetscape: Changes in tree community diversity and composition on climatic and geographic gradients.

ABSTRACT: Wetlands harbor an important compliment of regional plant diversity, but in many regions data on wetland diversity and composition is still lacking, thus hindering our understanding of the processes that control it. While patterns of broad-scale terrestrial diversity and composition typically correlate with contemporary climate it is not clear to what extent patterns in wetlands are complimentary, or conflicting. To elucidate this, we consolidate data from wetland forest inventories in Brazil and examine patterns of diversity and composition along temperature and rainfall gradients spanning five biomes. We collated 196 floristic inventories covering an area >220 ha and including >260,000 woody individuals. We detected a total of 2,453 tree species, with the Amazon alone accounting for near

SUBMITTER: Wittmann F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5386251 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature