Plant phylogenetic diversity of tropical mountaintop rocky grasslands local and regional constraints

• Published in: Plant ecology Vol. 220; no. 12; pp. 1119 - 1129
• Main Authors: de Mattos, Jacqueline Salvi, Morellato, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira, Camargo, Maria Gabriela Gutierrez, Batalha, Marco Antonio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media 01.12.2019; Springer Netherlands; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abiotic factors; Altitude; Applied Ecology; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Brazil; Clustering; Community & Population Ecology; Competition; Ecology; Ecosystem components; Filters; Grasslands; interspecific variation; Life Sciences; Mathematical analysis; Mountains; niche conservatism; Niches; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Plant Ecology; Plant species; Plants; principal component analysis; Principal components analysis; Regression analysis; Species richness; Terrestial Ecology; Variability; vascular plants; Brazil; Serra do Cipó; Rupestrian grasslands; Elevational gradient; Cerrado; Mountain grasslands; Community assembly rules

Mountains are interesting systems for studying patterns of diversity distribution and the role of environmental filters and competition on community assembly. According to the phylogenetic niche conservatism theory, the co-occurrence of closely related species might indicate that environmental filte...