Journal
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 207, Issue 2, Pages 275-282Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13230
Keywords
alpine; diversification rate; ecological opportunity; ecological release; island radiation; perennial; tropicalpine
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- National Science Foundation [31003A_135522]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_135522] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Alpine plant radiations are compared across the world's major mountain ranges and shown to be overwhelmingly young and fast, largely confined to the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and some of them apparently in the early explosive phase of radiation. Accelerated diversification triggered by island-like ecological opportunities following the final phases of mountain uplift, and in many cases enabled by the key adaptation of perennial habit, provides a general model for alpine plant radiations. Accelerated growth form evolution facilitated by perenniality provides compelling evidence of ecological release and suggests striking parallels between island-like alpine, and especially tropicalpine radiations, and island radiations more generally. These parallels suggest that the world's mountains offer an excellent comparative system for explaining evolutionary radiation.
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