The Origin and Diversification of the Hyperdiverse Flora in the Chocó Biogeographic Region
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Bedfordshire Repository MINI REVIEW published: 06 December 2019 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01328 The Origin and Diversification of the Hyperdiverse Flora in the Chocó Biogeographic Region Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar 1,2*†, Eve Lucas 1†, Carlos Jaramillo 3,4†, Alexandre Monro 1, Sarah K. Morris 1†, Diego Bogarín 5, Deborah Greer 1,6, Steven Dodsworth 7, José Aguilar-Cano 8, Andrea Sanchez Meseguer 9 and Alexandre Antonelli 1,2 1 Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London, United Kingdom, 2 Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama, 4 ISEM, U. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France, 5 Universidad de Costa Rica, Jardín Botánico Lankester, Cartago, Costa Rica, 6 Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London, United Kingdom, 7 School of Life Sciences, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom, 8 Research Institute Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota, Colombia, 9 Real Jardín Edited by: Botánico de Madrid (RJB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain Thomas L.P. Couvreur, IRD UMR232 Diversité, adaptation, développement des Extremely high levels of plant diversity in the American tropics are derived from multiple plantes (DIADE), France interactions between biotic and abiotic factors. Previous studies have focused on Reviewed by: Weston Testo, macro-evolutionary dynamics of the Tropical Andes, Amazonia, and Brazil’s Cerrado University of Vermont, United States and Atlantic forests during the last decade. Yet, other equally important Neotropical Colin Hughes, University of Zurich, Switzerland biodiversity hotspots have been severely neglected.
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