Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

By M. Simon, R. Grether, L. P. de Queiroz, C. Skema, R. Pennington, C. Hughes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities (2015, result): “Savannas and tropical moist forest communities may share similar lineages across the angiosperm phylogeny, a pattern which supports previous studies that suggested that Brazilian savannas are formed by the numerous independent colonizations of lineages from nearby biomes around 4–10 Ma (Simon et al.”
Climate cooling promoted the expansion and radiation of a threatened group of South American orchids (Epidendroideae: Laeliinae) (2010, background): “(2009) indicating that plant clades in the Cerrado diversified within the last 10 Mya, especially within the last 4 Mya, when C4 grasses presumably increased in ecological dominance (Simon et al. 2009).”
Tree species of South America central savanna: endemism, marginal areas and the relationship with other biomes (2016, background): “Families and genera with only one species must have relict distributions, with low diversification in central Brazil, or must be a product of recent colonization events, as observed in some legume species (Simon et al. 2009; 2011).”
Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system (2018, background): “Hence, over time, fire regimes act first as a filter of species traits but also facilitate the development of trait syndromes, where traits such as resprouting and thick bark may be linked as part of an overall plant performance strategy (Lamont et al 2013, Simon et al 2009).”
Phylogenetic relationships and distribution of New World Melastomeae (Melastomataceae) (2013, background): “The geographical distribution of this group has already been examined in detail by Fritsch et al. (2004) and Simon et al. (2009).”
Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests (2012, methodology): “For Mimosa, age estimates for the crown node of Mimosa (24 Ma, SD = 3.5) and the monophyletic section Mimadenia (16.6 Ma, SD = 4.0), following Simon et al. (2009), were used to timecalibrate the published Mimosa trnD–trnT plastid matrix of Särkinen et al. (2011).”
Biodiversity and conservation of the Cerrado: recent advances and old challenges (2020, background): “1997; Romero 1993), although the current biotic configuration has been established much more recently (Simon et al. 2009).”
Temporal and spatial origin of Gesneriaceae in the New World inferred from plastid DNA sequences (2013, background): “The origin of the West Indies could also post-date 35 Mya (Iturralde-Vinent & MacPhee, 1999), whereas the cerrado biome is probably not older than 10 Mya (Simon et al., 2009).”
Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority (2015, background): “…to test the hypothesis that, similarly to the tepuis, campo rupestre could have acted as a ‘biodiversity pump’ for the surrounding inner lowlands, due to the repeated speciation and further spreading events, as a response to past climatic fluctuations (Rull 2005; see also Simon et al. 2009).”
The lanky and the corky: fire‐escape strategies in savanna woody species (2013, background): “However, this is not expected, at least for bark thickness, as this trait is strongly convergent (Simon et al. 2009); that is, thick barks appear in many different lineages and closely related species may have differing bark thicknesses for a given diameter (Hoffmann, Orthen & Nascimento 2003).”