Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1

By C. Boyce, Jung‐Eun Lee, T. Feild, Tim J. Brodribb, M. Zwieniecki. 2010

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

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Elegance versus Speed: Examining the Competition between Conifer and Angiosperm Trees (2012, background): “One interpretation of these observations is that the invasion of broad-leaf angiosperms into the tropics caused a change in the ecology and climate of the equatorial belt (Boyce et al. 2010), increasing rainfall and hence the competition for light in the understory.”
Ferns in an Angiosperm World: Cretaceous Radiation into the Epiphytic Niche and Diversification on the Forest Floor (2012, background): “It is important to acknowledge that the actual timing of angiosperm dominance is currently and will continue to be debated (Wing and Boucher 1998; Burnham and Johnson 2004; Davis et al. 2005; Boyce et al. 2010).”
Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest (2015, unknown): “Amazonian forests play a fundamental role in global biogeochemical cycles (Malhi et al. 2008; Boyce et al. 2010; Saatchi et al. 2011; Harper et al. 2013).”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “…the tropics, and climate modelling suggests that the tropics would be hotter, drier and more seasonal in the absence of the angiosperms (as explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3OWgb0BvAlink), and the overall area of tropical rain forest would decline substantially (Boyce et al. 2009, 2010).”
Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics (2013, background): “The presence of angiosperms is the great and notable difference, and studies by Boyce and colleagues (Boyce et al. 2009, 2010; Boyce and Lee 2010; Lee and Boyce 2010) suggest that angiosperms can translocate water at rates up to 10 times greater than any other group of vascular plants.”