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Woody plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity decrease along elevational gradients in Andean tropical montane forests: Environmental filtering and arrival of temperate taxa

2024; Elsevier BV; Volume: 46; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.pld.2024.03.005

ISSN

2096-2703

Autores

Guillermo Bañares‐de‐Dios, Manuel J. Macía, Gabriel Arellano, Íñigo Granzow‐de la Cerda, Julia Vega‐Álvarez, Itziar Arnelas, Carlos I. Espinosa, Norma Salinas, Luis Cayuela,

Tópico(s)

Species Distribution and Climate Change

Resumo

Mountains are paramount for exploring biodiversity patterns due to the mosaic of topographies and climates encompassed over short distances. Biodiversity research has traditionally focused on taxonomic diversity when investigating changes along elevational gradients, but other facets should be considered. For first time, we simultaneously assessed elevational trends in taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants in Andean tropical montane forests and explored their underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. This investigation covered four transects (traversing

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