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A Biogeographic Barrier Test Reveals a Strong Genetic Structure for a Canopy-Emergent Amazon Tree Species.
Scientific reports - 9 Dec 2019
Nazareno Alison G, Dick Christopher W, Lohmann Lúcia G
Abstract excerpt
Wallace's (1854) Riverine Barrier hypothesis is one of the earliest explanations for Amazon biotic diversification. Despite the importance of this hypothesis for explaining speciation in some animal groups, it has not been studied extensively for plant species. In this study we use a prominent Amazon tree, Buchenavia oxycarpa (Mart.) Eichler (Combretaceae), to evaluate Wallace's hypothesis along the Rio Negro, a...
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