Open AccessReply to Raposo do Amaral et al.: The “Atlantis Forest hypothesis” adds a new dimension to Atlantic Forest biogeography
Author(s) -
Yuri Luiz Reis Leite,
Leonora Pires Costa,
Ana Carolina Loss,
Rita Gomes Rocha,
Henrique BatalhaFilho,
Alex Cardoso Bastos,
Valéria da Silva Quaresma,
Valéria Fagundes,
Roberta Paresque,
Marcelo Passamani,
Renata Pardini
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1602391113
Subject(s) - biogeography , atlantic forest , geography , biology , ecology
One or two diversification models alone cannot explain biodiversity evolution in the Atlantic Forest, or any other megadiverse biome, as we (1, 2) pointed out long before Raposo do Amaral et al. (3). In our recent paper (4), we present the Atlantis Forest hypothesis (AFH), which is an additional perspective to the Atlantic Forest evolution, beyond the forest refuge hypothesis (FRH). The AFH incorporates irrefutable Quaternary sea-level changes, which had been overlooked in the literature, and this is the main point of our paper. Support for the AFH came from small mammal distribution modeling and coalescent simulations based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences, which have been successfully used in …
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