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Comment
. 2018 Jun 5;115(23):5829-5831.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807012115. Epub 2018 May 23.

Importance of dispersal in the assembly of the Neotropical biota

Paul V A Fine  1 , Lúcia G Lohmann  1   2
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Importance of dispersal in the assembly of the Neotropical biota

Paul V A Fine et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Current and potential past distributions of South American tropical forest based on speleothem data (12). Dark green shows extant tropical forests, and light green shows possible forest corridors at different times. Arrows on the maps indicate possible dispersal routes between the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon, while the x-axis indicates the time sequence suggested by various authors (e.g., refs. and 20). Southern forest corridors are thought to have been more stable and to have lasted longer (∼50 kya), while the more recent northern corridor is thought to have been less stable and to have lasted for a shorter time (5–10 kya) (12). Adapted with permission from ref. 12, Springer Nature: Nature Communications, copyright (2013).
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  • Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity.
    Antonelli A, Zizka A, Carvalho FA, Scharn R, Bacon CD, Silvestro D, Condamine FL. Antonelli A, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jun 5;115(23):6034-6039. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1713819115. Epub 2018 May 14. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 29760058 Free PMC article.

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