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.2009 Dec 1;106(48):20359-64.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0903410106. Epub 2009 Nov 16.

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

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Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

Marcelo F Simon et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A..

Abstract

The relative importance of local ecological and larger-scale historical processes in causing differences in species richness across the globe remains keenly debated. To gain insight into these questions, we investigated the assembly of plant diversity in the Cerrado in South America, the world's most species-rich tropical savanna. Time-calibrated phylogenies suggest that Cerrado lineages started to diversify less than 10 Mya, with most lineages diversifying at 4 Mya or less, coinciding with the rise to dominance of flammable C4 grasses and expansion of the savanna biome worldwide. These plant phylogenies show that Cerrado lineages are strongly associated with adaptations to fire and have sister groups in largely fire-free nearby wet forest, seasonally dry forest, subtropical grassland, or wetland vegetation. These findings imply that the Cerrado formed in situ via recent and frequent adaptive shifts to resist fire, rather than via dispersal of lineages already adapted to fire. The location of the Cerrado surrounded by a diverse array of species-rich biomes, and the apparently modest adaptive barrier posed by fire, are likely to have contributed to its striking species richness. These findings add to growing evidence that the origins and historical assembly of species-rich biomes have been idiosyncratic, driven in large part by unique features of regional- and continental-scale geohistory and that different historical processes can lead to similar levels of modern species richness.

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Fig. 1.
Map of major vegetation types in South America showing the location of the Cerrado surrounded by a diverse array of other biomes.
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Evolution of the fire-adapted Cerrado flora. (A) Chronograms forMimosa,Andira,Lupinus, and Microlicieae showing 15 Cerrado lineages (red). Outgroups are depicted in gray. Symbols for fire adaptations: * = subshrub growing from xylopodium; ▴ = pachycaul treelet; ■ = thick corky bark. Numbered nodes correspond to Cerrado lineages. The Microlicieae phylogeny has been pruned to show just the Cerrado lineage and to fit within the time scale under investigation. Expanded phylogenies, including terminal names and support values, are presented in theSI Appendix. (B–I) Photographs illustrate the diversity of life forms and fire adaptations found inMimosa clades 3 (B andC) and 8 (D–G), andAndira (H andI). (B) Wand-like subshrub with a xylopodium,Mimosa pseudoradula. (C) Functionally herbaceous subshrub with a horizontal underground xylopodium,Mimosa venatorum. (D) Functionally herbaceous subshrub growing from a massive xylopodium,Mimosa speciosissima. (E) Functionally herbaceous wand-like subshrub growing from xylopodium,Mimosa ulei. (F) Rosulate shrub,Mimosa oligosperma. (G) Pachycaul treelet with few thick branches,Mimosa splendida. (H) A branch of the geoxylic suffrutex or “underground tree”,A. humilis. (I) Thick corky bark,Andira cordata (scale bars = 10 cm). (J) Divergence-time estimates for 15 Cerrado lineages (crown nodes). Mean and 95% credibility intervals derived from 2.7 × 104 samples of a Bayesian analysis.
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