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Pleistocene population expansions of shade-tolerant trees indicate fragmentation of the African rainforest during the Ice Ages.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 15 Nov 2017

Piñeiro Rosalía, Dauby Gilles, Kaymak Esra, Hardy Olivier J

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The fossil record in tropical Africa suggests that dry conditions during the Ice Ages caused expansion of savannahs and contraction of the rainforest. Forest refugia have been proposed to be located in areas of Central Africa that currently harbour high rates of endemic species. However, to what extent the forest was fragmented remains unknown. Nuclear microsatellites and plastid sequences of 732 trees of two...

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PMID: 29093226
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1800
PMCID: PMC5698650

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