Response to comments on "global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality"

Robert E. Ricklefs; Susanne S. Renner

doi:10.1126/science.1222685

Response to comments on "global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality"

Robert E. Ricklefs, Susanne S. Renner

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The neutral models in the Technical Comments depend on the assumption of an initially homogeneous global tropical forest flora. Fossil data and phylogenetic reconstructions instead reveal a high degree of provincialism before the development of modern tropical forests with only occasional long-distance dispersal between continental regions, favoring parallel diversification of a small number of ancestral lineages that dispersed between regions at widely different times.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1639-f
Journal	Science
Volume	336
Issue number	6089
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1222685
State	Published - Jun 29 2012

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Response to comments on "global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality"

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