The Origins of Tropical Rainforest Hyperdiversity

R. Toby Pennington; Mark Hughes; Peter W. Moonlight

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.005

The Origins of Tropical Rainforest Hyperdiversity

R. Toby Pennington
, Mark Hughes
, Peter W. Moonlight

Department of Biology

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Abstract

Traditional models for tropical species richness contrast rainforests as 'museums' of old species or 'cradles' of recent speciation. High plant species diversity in rainforests may be more likely to reflect high episodic evolutionary turnover of species-a scenario implicating high rates of both speciation and extinction through geological time.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	693-695
Number of pages	3
Journal	Trends in Plant Science
Volume	20
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.005
State	Published - Nov 2015

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