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The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

Published:2020-12-11 Issue:6522 Volume:370 Page:1343-1348
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
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Author:

Harvey Michael G.¹²³^ORCID,Bravo Gustavo A.⁴⁵⁶^ORCID,Claramunt Santiago⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Cuervo Andrés M.¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Derryberry Graham E.³¹²^ORCID,Battilana Jaqueline⁶^ORCID,Seeholzer Glenn F.⁹¹²^ORCID,McKay Jessica Shearer⁹^ORCID,O’Meara Brian C.³^ORCID,Faircloth Brant C.¹²¹³^ORCID,Edwards Scott V.⁴⁵^ORCID,Pérez-Emán Jorge¹⁴¹⁵,Moyle Robert G.¹⁶^ORCID,Sheldon Frederick H.¹²¹³^ORCID,Aleixo Alexandre¹⁷¹⁸^ORCID,Smith Brian Tilston⁹^ORCID,Chesser R. Terry¹⁹²⁰^ORCID,Silveira Luís Fábio⁶^ORCID,Cracraft Joel⁹^ORCID,Brumfield Robb T.¹²¹³^ORCID,Derryberry Elizabeth P.³¹¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.

2. Biodiversity Collections, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.

3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.

4. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

5. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

6. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

7. Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario M5S2C6, Canada.

8. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3B2, Canada.

9. Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA.

10. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 111321, Colombia.

11. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, LA 70118, USA.

12. Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.

13. Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.

14. Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

15. Colección Ornitológica Phelps, Caracas, Venezuela.

16. Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.

17. Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.

18. Department of Zoology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CP 399, 66040-170 Belém, PA, Brazil.

19. US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD 20708, USA.

20. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.

Abstract

Diversity does not drive speciation The role of the environment in the origin of new species has long been debated. Harvey et al. examined the evolutionary history and species diversity of suboscine birds in the tropics (see the Perspective by Morlon). Contrary to expectations that the tropics have higher rates of speciation, the authors observed that higher and more constant speciation rates occur in harsh environments relative to the tropics. Thus, for this group of birds, diversification in temperate to Arctic regions followed by the movement and retention of species in the tropics results in their higher local levels of species diversity. Science , this issue p. 1343 ; see also p. 1268

Funder

National Science Foundation

São Paulo Research Foundation

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference179 articles.

1. Out of the Tropics: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

2. Faster Speciation and Reduced Extinction in the Tropics Contribute to the Mammalian Latitudinal Diversity Gradient