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| Title |
Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees
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| Published in |
Ecology Letters, March 2014
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| DOI | 10.1111/ele.12252 |
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| Authors |
Timothy R Baker, R Toby Pennington, Susana Magallon, Emanuel Gloor, William F Laurance, Miguel Alexiades, Esteban Alvarez, Alejandro Araujo, Eric J M M Arets, Gerardo Aymard, Atila Alves de Oliveira, Iêda Amaral, Luzmila Arroyo, Damien Bonal, Roel J W Brienen, Jerome Chave, Kyle G Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Eduardo Eler, Ted R Feldpausch, Leandro Ferreira, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Geertje van der Heijden, Niro Higuchi, Eurídice Honorio, Isau Huamantupa, Tim J Killeen, Susan Laurance, Claudio Leaño, Simon L Lewis, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora, Nigel Pitman, Adriana Prieto, Carlos A Quesada, Fredy Ramírez, Hirma Ramírez Angulo, Agustin Rudas, Ademir R Ruschel, Rafael P Salomão, Ana Segalin de Andrade, J Natalino M Silva, Marcos Silveira, Marcelo F Simon, Wilson Spironello, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Marisol Toledo, Armando Torres-Lezama, Rodolfo Vasquez, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent A Vos, Oliver L Phillips, John Wiens |
| Abstract |
The Amazon rain forest sustains the world's highest tree diversity, but it remains unclear why some clades of trees are hyperdiverse, whereas others are not. Using dated phylogenies, estimates of current species richness and trait and demographic data from a large network of forest plots, we show that fast demographic traits--short turnover times--are associated with high diversification rates across 51 clades of canopy trees. This relationship is robust to assuming that diversification rates are either constant or decline over time, and occurs in a wide range of Neotropical tree lineages. This finding reveals the crucial role of intrinsic, ecological variation among clades for understanding the origin of the remarkable diversity of Amazonian trees and forests. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 33% |
| United States | 3 | 14% |
| Russia | 1 | 5% |
| Colombia | 1 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |
| Peru | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 71% |
| Scientists | 4 | 19% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 413 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 5 | 1% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Colombia | 2 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 389 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 87 | 21% |
| Researcher | 80 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 58 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 5% |
| Other | 83 | 20% |
| Unknown | 57 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 213 | 52% |
| Environmental Science | 103 | 25% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 10 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 2% |
| Philosophy | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 7 | 2% |
| Unknown | 71 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2014.
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#1,281,141
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#738
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#12,837
of 227,092 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology Letters
#10
of 32 outputs
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