Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa
2020
Dagallier, Léo-Paul, M. J. | Janssens, Steven, B | Dauby, Gilles | Blach-Overgaard, Anne | Mackinder, Barbara, A | Droissart, Vincent | Svenning, Jens-Christian | Sosef, Marc, S M | Stévart, Tariq | Harris, David, J | Sonké, Bonaventure | Wieringa, Jan, J | Hardy, Olivier J. | Couvreur, Thomas, L P | Diversité, adaptation, développement des plantes (UMR DIADE) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie]) | Meise Botanic Garden [Belgium] (Plantentuin) | Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Aarhus University [Aarhus] | Royal Botanic Garden [Edinburgh] | Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE) ; Aarhus University [Aarhus] | Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Missouri Botanical Garden | Université de Yaoundé I (UY1) | ANR-15-CE02-0002,AFRODYN,Forêts tropicales humides d'Afrique Centrale : dynamiques passées et résiliences futures(2015)
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Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]anglais. Determining where species diversify (cradles) and persist (museums) over evolutionary time is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity and for conservation prioriti-zation. Here, we identify cradles and museums of angiosperm generic diversity across tropical Africa, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Regions containing nonrandom concentrations of young (neo-) and old (paleo-) endemic taxa were identified using distribution data of 1719 genera combined with a newly generated time-calibrated mega-phylogenetic tree. We then compared the identified regions with the current network of African protected areas (PAs). At the generic level, phylogenetic diversity and endemism are mainly concentrated in the biogeographically complex region of Eastern Africa. We show that mountainous areas are centres of both neo-and paleo-endemism. By contrast, the Guineo-Congolian lowland rain forest region is characterized by widespread and old lineages. We found that the overlap between centres of phylogenetic endemism and PAs is high (> 85%). We show the vital role played by mountains acting simultaneously as cradles and museums of tropical African plant biodiversity. By contrast, lowland rainforests act mainly as museums for generic diversity. Our study shows that incorporating large-scale taxonomically verified distribution datasets and mega-phylogenies lead to an improved understanding of tropical plant biodiversity evolution.
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