Environmental and historical controls of floristic composition across the South American Dry Diagonal

• Published in: Journal of biogeography Vol. 42; no. 8; pp. 1566 - 1576
• Main Authors: Neves, Danilo M., Dexter, Kyle G., Pennington, R. Toby, Bueno, Marcelo L., Oliveira Filho, Ary T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2015; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Argentina; autocorrelation; botanical composition; Brazil; caatinga woodlands; chaco woodlands; cold; Community variation in space and time; Correlation analysis; Dry forests; ecosystems; edaphic factors; Environmental factors; environmental niche; frost; Heterogeneity; interspecific variation; inventories; multivariate analysis; phytogeography; Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis; seasonally dry tropical forests; Species composition; species turnover; temperature; Tropical forests; variation partitioning; Woodlands; Woody plants; Brazil; Argentina

Aim: The aim of this study was to test the role of environmental factors and spatially autocor related processes, such as historical fragmentation and dispersal limitation, in driving floristic variation across seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) in eastern South America. Location: SDTFs extendi...