A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity

By Michael J. Donoghue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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

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Phylogeography and climatic niche evolution in live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) from the tropics to the temperate zone (2011, background): “hypothesized to be an important barrier to range expansion (Wiens, 2004; Wiens et al., 2006; Donoghue, 2008).”
Tropical niche conservatism and the species richness gradient of North American butterflies (2009, background): “…process contributing to many ‘latitudinal’ diversity gradients is the appearance of biological innovations that allow some clades to radiate into environments from which related clades are excluded (e.g. Latham & Ricklefs, 1993; Wiens et al., 2006; Diniz-Filho et al., 2007; Donoghue, 2008).”
Phylogenetic community structure in Minnesota oak savanna is influenced by spatial extent and environmental variation (2009, background): “If, for instance, these conserved traits are relevant to changing conditions then species’ responses might be biased toward migration rather than adaptation (Donoghue 2008).”
Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics (2011, background): “The inferred high dispersal ability of many lineages mentioned above, combined with the inference that many plant taxa show a high degree of niche conservatism (Crisp & al., 2009), support the idea that for plants it is often “easier to move than to evolve” (Donoghue, 2008: 11551).”
Phyloecology of urban alien floras (2009, background): “As ecologically important traits are usually conserved through evolutionary history (Donoghue 2008), it follows that phylo- genetic community structure has important consequences for understanding invasiveness.”
Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014, neutral): “…evapotranspiration and water availability have been used in many ecological studies (Reich et al. 1999; Wright et al. 2004; Poorter et al. 2010; Douma et al. 2012; van Ommen Kloeke et al. 2012), and the combined use of temperature and precipitation to understand the distribution of different…”
Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire (2009, background): “Hughes C, Eastwood R (2006) Island radiation on a continental scale: Exceptional rates of plant diversification after uplift of the Andes.”
The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes (2014, background): “…from outside the region can also infl uence patterns of species richness, because if colonizing species are adapted to conditions at a particular part of the gradient, then they may be more likely to establish and potentially diversify under these conditions (Donoghue 2008, Drummond 2008).”
Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (2009, background): “…phylogenetic studies: (a) Many of these clades are confined to or concentrated in SDTF, which is evidence of phylogenetic niche conservatism (e.g., Donoghue 2008, Harvey & Pagel 1991); (b) endemic species confined to a single SDTF nucleus are monophyletic and relatively old, commonly predating…”
SESAM – a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio‐temporal patterns of species assemblages (2011, background): “…competitive ability; Keddy et al., 2002) with eco-physiological measurements (e.g. to better assess the fundamental response of species along environmental gradients in the absence of biotic interactions; Araújo & Guisan, 2006) and phylogenetic data (e.g. Donoghue, 2008; Graham et al., 2009).”
Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities. (2010, background): “…clustering when relevant traits are sufficiently conserved and closely related taxa share similar environmental tolerances, allowing them to colonize the community (Webb et al. 2002; Swenson et al. 2006; Donoghue 2008; Emerson & Gillespie 2008; Prinzing et al. 2008; Cavender-Bares et al. 2009).”
Habitat specifity, endemism and the neotropical distribution of Amazonian white-water floodplain trees (2013, background): “Thus species may be more rapidly recruited from adjacent habitat types in which the relevant adaptations have already developed than species from surrounding terra firme forests can evolve relevant traits in situ (Donoghue 2008).”
Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient (2012, background): “In managed systems, such as urban areas, anthropogenic effects add to these drivers of community assembly (Donoghue 2008) or manipulate them, for example, by anthropogenic selection of species or the creation of novel habitats, such as yards (Kowarik 2011).”
Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, background): “…phylogenetic scale, however, phenotypic and functional traits, including those that relate to ecological niches, generally show greater similarity among species with greater shared ancestry (Harvey and Pagel 1991, Blomberg and Garland 2002, Wiens and Graham 2005, Donoghue 2008, Wiens et al. 2010).”
Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests (2012, background): “Not only is floristic similarity low between biomes (Killeen et al., 2007; Donoghue, 2008), but our analyses indicate different phylogenetic lineages, species ages and rates of diversification among the SDTF, MMF and HEG biomes.”