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- Title
Humid and cold forest connections in South America between the eastern Andes and the southern Atlantic coast during the LGM.
- Authors
Pinaya, Jorge Luiz Diaz; Pitman, Nigel C. A.; Cruz, Francisco William; Akabane, Thomas K.; Lopez, Maria del Carmen Sanz; Pereira-Filho, Augusto José; Grohman, Carlos H.; Reis, Luiza Santos; Rodrigues, Erika S. Ferreira; Ceccantini, Gregório C. T.; De Oliveira, Paulo Eduardo
- Abstract
The presence of Andean plant genera in moist forests of the Brazilian Atlantic Coast has been historically hypothesized as the result of cross-continental migrations starting at the eastern Andean flanks. Here we test hypotheses of former connections between the Atlantic and Andean forests by examining distribution patterns of selected cool and moist-adapted plant arboreal taxa present in 54 South American pollen records of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), ca. 19–23 cal ka, known to occur in both plant domains. Pollen taxa studied include Araucaria, Drimys, Hedyosmum, Ilex, Myrsine, Podocarpus, Symplocos, Weinmannia, Myrtaceae, Ericaceae and Arecaceae. Past connectivity patterns between these two neotropical regions as well as individual ecological niches during the LGM were explored by cluster analysis of fossil assemblages and modern plant distributions. Additionally, we examined the ecological niche of 137 plant species with shared distributions between the Andes and coastal Brazil. Our results revealed five complex connectivity patterns for South American vegetation linking Andean, Amazonian and Atlantic Forests and one disjunction distribution in southern Chile. This study also provides a better understanding of vegetation cover on the large and shallow South American continental shelf that was exposed due to a global sea level drop.
- Subjects
ANDES; LAST Glacial Maximum; FOSSIL plants; ECOLOGICAL niche; CONTINENTAL shelf; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; GROUND vegetation cover
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-024-51763-8