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Why Do Tropical Mountains Support Exceptionally High Biodiversity? The Eastern Arc Mountains and the Drivers of Saintpaulia Diversity

We combine information about the evolutionary history and distributional patterns of the genus Saintpaulia H. Wendl. (Gesneriaceae; ‘African violets’) to elucidate the factors and processes behind the accumulation of species in tropical montane areas of high biodiversity concentration. We find that...

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Autores principales: Dimitrov, Dimitar, Nogués-Bravo, David, Scharff, Nikolaj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3501504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048908