Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests : Plant Diversity, Biogeography, and Conservation

By R. Pennington, G. Lewis, J. Ratter. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Review of plant biogeographic studies in Brazil (2009, background): “The seasonally dry forests of the Paranaense and Misiones nuclei are currently considered a distinct phytogeographic unit (Prado, 2000; Pennington et al., 2006a), whereas the subtropical Araucaria forests are sometimes considered on their own as the Paranaense Province (Cabrera & Willink, 1973) or…”
The role of tropical dry forests for biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics: lessons learned and opportunities for its sustainable management (2015, background): “In fact, the ecological definition of TDF considers savannas, riparian forests, coastlines and mangroves among the associated vegetation types that can occur within the matrix of TDF (Pennington et al. 2006; Sanchez-Azofeifa et al. 2005).”
A Phytogeographical Metaanalysis of the Semiarid Caatinga Domain in Brazil (2016, background): “SDTFs usually have fertile soils and are home to plants lacking adaptation to survive wildfires, as well as a wealth of succulent plant taxa, such as Cactaceae (Bullock et al., 1995; Sampaio, 1995; Pennington et al., 2000, 2006; Oliveira-Filho et al., 2013).”
The diversification of eastern South American open vegetation biomes: Historical biogeography and perspectives (2011, background): “…is tree dominated, but can include a variety of formations ranging from tall forests to cactus scrub, and is semideciduous or deciduous during the dry season, when more than 50% of the arboreal cover can be completely lost (Murphy and Lugo, 1986; Pennington et al., 2006b) (Tables 1 and 2).”
A catalogue of the vascular plants of the Caatinga Phytogeographical Domain: a synthesis of floristic and phytosociological surveys (2014, background): “They represent dry scrublands, woodlands and forests under semiarid climate, which have relatively rich soils and are under pressure from logging, clearing for agriculture, fragmentation, desertification and overgrazing (Sampaio 1995, Miles et al. 2006, Pennington et al. 2006).”
Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (2009, background): “See Pennington et al. 2006b, pp. 121–58 Ramirez-Soriano A, Ramos-Onsins SE, Rozas J, Calafell F, Navarro A. 2008.”
Drawbacks to palaeodistribution modelling: the case of South American seasonally dry forests (2013, background): “However, floristic and pollen fossil records show that the species typically found in SDFs are now widely distributed in Amazonia but are rare in areas of Amazonian rain forest (see Prado & Gibbs, 1993; Pennington et al., 2000; Mayle, 2006).”
Phylogeography and climatic niche evolution in live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) from the tropics to the temperate zone (2011, background): “extreme long-distance dispersal has been recognized as a critical factor in explaining range disjunctions of Neotropical forest taxa (Pennington, 2006; Schmitt et al., 2006; Dick et al., 2007).”
Neotropical Plant Evolution: Assembling the Big Picture (2013, background): “…occurring in diverse regions and climates (e.g. rain forest, seasonally dry tropical forests, savannas, montane forests, high elevation grasslands (Pennington et al., 2006b, 2009, 2010; Särkinen et al., 2012a), prompting a more nuanced biome-by-biome approach to synthesizing overall patterns of…”