Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
Abstrak
Significance Identifying and explaining regional differences in tropical forest dynamics, structure, diversity, and composition are critical for anticipating region-specific responses to global environmental change. Floristic classifications are of fundamental importance for these efforts. Here we provide a global tropical forest classification that is explicitly based on community evolutionary similarity, resulting in identification of five major tropical forest regions and their relationships: (i) Indo-Pacific, (ii) Subtropical, (iii) African, (iv) American, and (v) Dry forests. African and American forests are grouped, reflecting their former western Gondwanan connection, while Indo-Pacific forests range from eastern Africa and Madagascar to Australia and the Pacific. The connection between northern-hemisphere Asian and American forests is confirmed, while Dry forests are identified as a single tropical biome. Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world’s tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific responses to global environmental change. Modern phylogenies, in combination with broad coverage of species inventory data, now allow for global biogeographic analyses that take species evolutionary distance into account. Here we present a classification of the world’s tropical forests based on their phylogenetic similarity. We identify five principal floristic regions and their floristic relationships: (i) Indo-Pacific, (ii) Subtropical, (iii) African, (iv) American, and (v) Dry forests. Our results do not support the traditional neo- versus paleotropical forest division but instead separate the combined American and African forests from their Indo-Pacific counterparts. We also find indications for the existence of a global dry forest region, with representatives in America, Africa, Madagascar, and India. Additionally, a northern-hemisphere Subtropical forest region was identified with representatives in Asia and America, providing support for a link between Asian and American northern-hemisphere forests.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (187)
J. Slik
J. Franklin
V. Arroyo‐Rodríguez
Richard Field
Salomón Aguilar
N. Aguirre
J. Ahumada
Shin‐ichiro Aiba
L. Alves
A. K
A. Avella
F. Mora
G. Aymard C.
S. Báez
P. Balvanera
M. Bastian
Jean‐François Bastin
P. Bellingham
E. van den Berg
Polyanna da Conceição Bispo
P. Boeckx
Katrin Boehning-Gaese
F. Bongers
B. Boyle
F. Brambach
F. Brearley
Sandra A. Brown
Shauna‐Lee Chai
R. Chazdon
Shengbin Chen
Phourin Chhang
G. Chuyong
C. Ewango
Indiana Coronado
J. Cristóbal-Azkarate
H. Culmsee
K. Damas
H. Dattaraja
P. Davidar
S. DeWalt
H. Din
D. Drake
Á. Duque
G. Durigan
K. Eichhorn
E. Eler
T. Enoki
A. Ensslin
A. B. Fandohan
N. Farwig
K. Feeley
M. Fischer
O. Forshed
Q. Garcia
S. Garkoti
T. Gillespie
Jean‐François Gillet
C. Gonmadje
Íñigo Granzow‐de la Cerda
Daniel M. Griffith
J. Grogan
Khalid Rehman Hakeem
D. Harris
R. Harrison
A. Hector
A. Hemp
J. Homeier
M. S. Hussain
G. Ibarra‐Manríquez
I. Hanum
N. Imai
P. Jansen
C. Joly
Shijo Joseph
K. Kartawinata
E. Kearsley
D. Kelly
M. Kessler
T. Killeen
R. Kooyman
Y. Laumonier
S. Laurance
W. Laurance
M. Lawes
Susan G. Letcher
J. Lindsell
J. Lovett
J. Lozada
Xinghui Lu
A. Lykke
K. Mahmud
N. P. D. Mahayani
A. Mansor
A. Marshall
Emanuel H. Martin
Darley Calderado Leal Matos
J. Meave
Felipe P. L. Melo
Zhofre Aguirre Mendoza
F. Metali
V. Medjibe
J. Metzger
T. Metzker
D. Mohandass
Miguel A. Munguía-Rosas
R. Muñoz
Eddy Nurtjahy
Eddie Lenza de Oliveira
Onrizal
P. Parolin
M. Parren
N. Parthasarathy
Ekananda Paudel
Rolando Pẽrez
E. A. PÉREZ-GARCÍA
Ulf Pommer
L. Poorter
Lan Qie
M. Piedade
J. R. Pinto
A. Poulsen
J. Poulsen
J. Powers
R. Prasad
J. Puyravaud
O. Rangel
J. Reitsma
D. S. Rocha
S. Rolim
F. Rovero
A. Rozak
K. Ruokolainen
E. Rutishauser
G. Rutten
Mohd Nizam Mohd Said
F. Saiter
P. Saner
Bráulio A. Santos
J. D. dos Santos
S. K. Sarker
C. Schmitt
Jochen Schoengart
M. Schulze
D. Sheil
P. Sist
A. F. Souza
W. Spironello
T. Sposito
R. Steinmetz
T. Stévart
M. Suganuma
R. Sukri
A. Sultana
R. Sukumar
T. Sunderland
Supriyadi
H. Suresh
E. Suzuki
M. Tabarelli
Jianwei Tang
E. Tanner
N. Targhetta
I. Theilade
Duncan W. Thomas
J. Timberlake
M. de Morisson Valeriano
J. van Valkenburg
Tran Van Do
Hoang Van Sam
J. Vandermeer
H. Verbeeck
O. Vetaas
V. Adekunle
S. Vieira
C. Webb
E. Webb
Timothy J. S. Whitfeld
S. Wich
John N. Williams
S. Wiser
F. Wittmann
Xiaobo Yang
C. Y. Adou Yao
Sandra L. Yap
Rakan A. Zahawi
R. Zakaria
R. Zang
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2018
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 182×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1073/pnas.1714977115
- Akses
- Open Access ✓