Knowing the past to conserve the future: a commentary on 'Evolutionary history of marginal habitats regulates the diversity of tree communities in the Atlantic Forest'

Vanessa L Rezende; Pedro L Silva de Miranda; Vanessa Pontara

doi:10.1093/aob/mcac145

Knowing the past to conserve the future: a commentary on 'Evolutionary history of marginal habitats regulates the diversity of tree communities in the Atlantic Forest'

Ann Bot. 2023 Mar 8;131(2):i-iii. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac145.

Authors

Vanessa L Rezende¹, Pedro L Silva de Miranda², Vanessa Pontara³

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Biologia, Setor de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
² Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium.
³ Laboratório de Macroecologia e Evolução, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, Unidade Universitária de Mundo Novo, Mundo Novo, Brazil.

Abstract

This article comments on:

Jhonny Capichoni Massante, and Markus Gastauer. Evolutionary history of marginal habitats regulates the diversity of tree communities in the Atlantic Forest, Annals of Botany, Volume 131, Issue 2, 1 February 2023, Pages 261–274, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac111

Keywords: Atlantic Forest; Marginal habitats; angiosperms.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Ecosystem
Forests*
Trees*