Coalescent Simulation and Paleodistribution Modeling for Tabebuia rosealba Do Not Support South American Dry Forest Refugia Hypothesis

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 7; p. e0159314
• Main Authors: de Melo, Warita Alves, Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus S., Terribile, Levi Carina, Collevatti, Rosane G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 26.07.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aridity; Bignoniaceae; Biodiversity; Biological diversity; Biology and Life Sciences; Brazil; Chloroplast membrane; Climate change; Climatic conditions; Coalescence; Coalescing; Computer simulation; Current distribution; Demographics; Demography; Dry forests; Earth Sciences; Ecological niches; Ecology; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Ecosystems; Forest refugia; Forests; Fossils; Fragmentation; Genetic diversity; Genetic Variation; Genetics, Population; Genomes; Geographical distribution; Geography; Grasslands; Hypotheses; Last Glacial Maximum; Modelling; Models, Statistical; Models, Theoretical; Niches (Ecology); People and Places; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Physiological aspects; Pleistocene; Pollen; Population (statistical); Refugia; Refugium; River basins; Seasonal distribution; Seasons; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Spatial Analysis; Spatial discrimination; Spatial distribution; Tabebuia; Tabebuia - classification; Tabebuia - genetics; Trends; Tropical Climate; Tropical forests; South America; Brazil; Cerrado Biome; New York; Bolivia; United States > US

Studies based on contemporary plant occurrences and pollen fossil records have proposed that the current disjunct distribution of seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) across South America is the result of fragmentation of a formerly widespread and continuously distributed dry forest during the ar...