Plio-Pleistocene history and phylogeography of Acacia senegal in dry woodlands and savannahs of sub-Saharan tropical Africa: evidence of early colonisation and recent range expansion.

Abstract excerpt

Drylands are extensive across sub-Saharan Africa, socio-economically and ecologically important yet highly sensitive to environmental changes. Evolutionary history, as revealed by contemporary intraspecific genetic variation, can provide valuable insight into how species have responded to past environmental and population changes and guide strategies to promote resilience to future changes. The gum arabic tree...

Topics

• Acacia
• Africa South of the Sahara
• DNA, Chloroplast
• Evolution, Molecular
• Gene Flow
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population
• Haplotypes
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Phylogeography