Evaluation of tropical-temperate transitions: An example of climatic characterization in the Asian Palmate group of Araliaceae.

ABSTRACT:

Premise

There has been a great increase in using climatic data in phylogenetic studies over the past decades. However, compiling the high-quality spatial data needed to perform accurate climatic reconstructions is time-consuming and can result in poor geographical coverage. Therefore, researchers often resort to qualitative approximations. Our aim was to evaluate the climatic characterization of the genera of the Asian Palmate Group (AsPG) of Araliaceae as an exemplar lineage of plants showing tropical-temperate transitions.

Methods

We compiled a curated worldwide spatial database of the AsPG genera and created five raster layers representing bioclimatic regionalizations of the world. Then, we crossed the database with the layers to climatically characterize the AsPG genera.

SUBMITTER: Coca-de-la-Iglesia M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826302 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature