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contrasting nature of woody plant species in different neotropical forest biomes reflects differences in ecological stability by Pennington, R. Toby, Lavin, Matt

“…25 I. 25 II. 26 III. 27 IV. 27 V. 28 VI. 32 VII. 33 VIII. 34 35 References 35 SUMMARY: A fundamental premise of this review is that distinctive phylogenetic…”
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Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests by Pennington, R. Toby, Lavin, Matt, Oliveira-Filho, Ary

“…This review suggests that the ecology and patchy global distribution of seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) has distinctively structured the evolutionary…”
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The Unintended Impact of Colombia’s Covid-19 Lockdown on Forest Fires by Amador-Jiménez, Mónica, Millner, Naomi, Palmer, Charles, Pennington, R. Toby, Sileci, Lorenzo

“…The covid-19 pandemic led to rapid and large-scale government intervention in economies and societies. A common policy response to covid-19 outbreaks has been…”
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Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled early-branching lineages by Cardoso, Domingos, de Queiroz, Luciano P, Pennington, R. Toby, de Lima, Haroldo C, Fonty, Émile, Wojciechowski, Martin F, Lavin, Matt

“…• Premise of study: Phylogenetic relationships of the papilionoid legumes (Papilionoideae) reveal that the early branches are more highly diverse in floral…”
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Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire by Simon, Marcelo F, Grether, Rosaura, de Queiroz, Luciano P, Skema, Cynthia, Pennington, R. Toby, Hughes, Colin E

“…The relative importance of local ecological and larger-scale historical processes in causing differences in species richness across the globe remains keenly…”
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Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin by Dexter, Kyle G., Lavin, Mathew, Torke, Benjamin M., Twyford, Alex D., Kursar, Thomas A., Coley, Phyllis D., Drake, Camila, Hollands, Ruth, Pennington, R. Toby

“…We investigate patterns of historical assembly of tree communities across Amazonia using a newly developed phylogeny for the species-rich neotropical tree…”
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Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore–plant system by Endara, María-José, Coley, Phyllis D., Ghabash, Gabrielle, Nicholls, James A., Dexter, Kyle G., Donoso, David A., Stone, Graham N., Pennington, R. Toby, Kursar, Thomas A.

“…Coevolutionary models suggest that herbivores drive diversification and community composition in plants. For herbivores, many questions remain regarding how…”
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Underground trees inhabit varied environmental extremes across the Afrotropics by Courtenay, Anya P, Moonlight, Peter W, Toby Pennington, R, Lehmann, Caroline E R

“…Geoxyles, a distinctive feature of Afrotropical savannas and grasslands, survive recurrent disturbances by resprouting subshrub branches from large…”
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Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests by Särkinen, Tiina, Pennington, R. Toby, Lavin, Matt, Simon, Marcelo F., Hughes, Colin E.

“…Aim The tropical Andes are a world biodiversity hotspot. With diverse biomes and dramatic, geologically recent mountain uplift, they offer a system to study…”
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The remarkable congruence of New and Old World savanna origins by Pennington, R. Toby, Hughes, Colin E.

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Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages by Schaefer, Hanno, Hechenleitner, Paulina, Santos-Guerra, Arnoldo, Menezes de Sequeira, Miguel, Pennington, R Toby, Kenicer, Gregory, Carine, Mark A

“…Tribe Fabeae comprises about 380 legume species, including some of the most ancient and important crops like lentil, pea, and broad bean. Breeding efforts in…”
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Environmental and historical controls of floristic composition across the South American Dry Diagonal by Neves, Danilo M., Dexter, Kyle G., Pennington, R. Toby, Bueno, Marcelo L., Oliveira Filho, Ary T.

“…Aim: The aim of this study was to test the role of environmental factors and spatially autocor related processes, such as historical fragmentation and…”
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evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga by Kursar, Thomas A, Dexter, Kyle G, Lokvam, John, Pennington, R. Toby, Richardson, James E, Weber, Marjorie G, Murakami, Eric T, Drake, Camilla, McGregor, Ruth, Coley, Phyllis D

“…Plants and their herbivores constitute more than half of the organisms in tropical forests. Therefore, a better understanding of the evolution of plant…”
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Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation by Neves, Danilo M., Dexter, Kyle G., Baker, Timothy R., Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Oliveira-Filho, Ary T., Queiroz, Luciano P., Lima, Haroldo C., Simon, Marcelo F., Lewis, Gwilym P., Segovia, Ricardo A., Arroyo, Luzmila, Reynel, Carlos, Marcelo-Peña, José L., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Villarroel, Daniel, Parada, G. Alexander, Daza, Aniceto, Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, Ferreira, Leandro V., Salomão, Rafael P., Siqueira, Geovane S., Nascimento, Marcelo T., Fraga, Claudio N., Pennington, R. Toby

“…Global patterns of species and evolutionary diversity in plants are primarily determined by a temperature gradient, but precipitation gradients may be more…”
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Insights into the historical construction of species-rich biomes from dated plant phylogenies, neutral ecological theory and phylogenetic community structure by Pennington, R. Toby, Richardson, James E., Lavin, Matt

“…Analytical methods are now available that can date all nodes in a molecular phylogenetic tree with one calibration, and which correct for variable rates of DNA…”
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Dispersal, isolation and diversification with continued gene flow in an Andean tropical dry forest by Toby Pennington, R., Lavin, Matt

“…The Andes are the world's longest mountain chain, and the tropical Andes are the world's richest biodiversity hot spot. The origin of the tropical Andean…”
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Contrasting plant diversification histories within the Andean biodiversity hotspot by Pennington, R. Toby, Lavin, Matt, Särkinen, Tiina, Lewis, Gwilym P., Klitgaard, Bente B., Hughes, Colin E., Raven, Peter H.

“…The Andes are the most species-rich global biodiversity hotspot. Most research and conservation attention in the Andes has focused on biomes such as rain…”
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Using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes to increase phylogenetic resolution in the neotropical rain forest genus Inga (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) by Nicholls, James A, Pennington, R Toby, Koenen, Erik J M, Hughes, Colin E, Hearn, Jack, Bunnefeld, Lynsey, Dexter, Kyle G, Stone, Graham N, Kidner, Catherine A

“…Evolutionary radiations are prominent and pervasive across many plant lineages in diverse geographical and ecological settings; in neotropical rainforests…”
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Plant DNA barcodes and assessment of phylogenetic community structure of a tropical mixed dipterocarp forest in Brunei Darussalam (Borneo) by Heckenhauer, Jacqueline, Abu Salim, Kamariah, Chase, Mark W, Dexter, Kyle G, Pennington, R Toby, Tan, Sylvester, Kaye, Maria Ellen, Samuel, Rosabelle

“…DNA barcoding is a fast and reliable tool to assess and monitor biodiversity and, via community phylogenetics, to investigate ecological and evolutionary…”
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The role of immigrants in the assembly of the South American rainforest tree flora by Pennington, R. Toby, Dick, Christopher W.

“… 100 Myr ago). Recent molecular phylogenies, however, identify immigrant lineages that arrived in South America during its period of oceanic isolation (…”
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