The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar; Alexander Zizka; Mauricio A. Bermúdez; Andrea S. Meseguer; Fabien L. Condamine; Carina Hoorn; Henry Hooghiemstra; Yuanshu Pu; Diego Bogarín; Lydian M. Boschman; R. Toby Pennington; Alexandre Antonelli; Guillaume Chomicki

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.09.010

The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Alexander Zizka, Mauricio A. Bermúdez, Andrea S. Meseguer, Fabien L. Condamine, Carina Hoorn, Henry Hooghiemstra, Yuanshu Pu, Diego Bogarín, Lydian M. Boschman, R. Toby Pennington, Alexandre Antonelli, Guillaume Chomicki

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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Abstract

The Andes are the world's most biodiverse mountain chain, encompassing a complex array of ecosystems from tropical rainforests to alpine habitats. We provide a synthesis of Andean vascular plant diversity by estimating a list of all species with publicly available records, which we integrate with a phylogenetic dataset of 14 501 Neotropical plant species in 194 clades. We find that (i) the Andean flora comprises at least 28 691 georeferenced species documented to date, (ii) Northern Andean mid-elevation cloud forests are the most species-rich Andean ecosystems, (iii) the Andes are a key source and sink of Neotropical plant diversity, and (iv) the Andes, Amazonia, and other Neotropical biomes have had a considerable amount of biotic interchange through time.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	364-378
Number of pages	15
Journal	Trends in Plant Science
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.09.010
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2022

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Funding Information:
We thank Víctor Alberto Ramos for permission to reuse the map in Figure 1A, Mario Coiro for help with plant fossil records curation, and Colin Hughes, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor Susanne Brink for comments that helped to improve the manuscript. Eve J. Lucas and Gwilym P. Lewis are thanked for providing useful insights into the taxonomy of the Andean plant list. O.A.P-E is funded by a Sainsbury Orchid Fellowship at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Swiss Orchid Foundation. A.Z. acknowledges funding by iDiv via the German Research Foundation (FZT-118, DGF), specifically through sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of iDiv. F.L.C. is supported by an Investissements d'Avenir grant managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR; Center for the Study of Biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA) grant ANR-10-LABX-25-01] and by the ANR GAARAnti project (ANR-17-CE31-0009). M.A.B. thanks the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) for support via Dirección de Investigaciones (DIN) SGI Project 3104. Y.P. was funded by an Erasmus+ scholarship from the European Commission. A.A. is funded by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. G.C. is funded by a UK Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship (NE/S014470/1). No interests are declared.

Funding Information:
We thank Víctor Alberto Ramos for permission to reuse the map in Figure 1 A, Mario Coiro for help with plant fossil records curation, and Colin Hughes, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor Susanne Brink for comments that helped to improve the manuscript. Eve J. Lucas and Gwilym P. Lewis are thanked for providing useful insights into the taxonomy of the Andean plant list. O.A.P-E is funded by a Sainsbury Orchid Fellowship at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Swiss Orchid Foundation. A.Z. acknowledges funding by iDiv via the German Research Foundation ( FZT-118 , DGF), specifically through sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of iDiv . F.L.C. is supported by an Investissements d'Avenir grant managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR; Center for the Study of Biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA) grant ANR-10-LABX-25-01 ] and by the ANR GAARAnti project ( ANR-17-CE31-0009 ). M.A.B. thanks the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) for support via Dirección de Investigaciones (DIN) SGI Project 3104 . Y.P. was funded by an Erasmus+ scholarship from the European Commission . A.A. is funded by the Swedish Research Council , the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research , and the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew. G.C. is funded by a UK Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship ( NE/S014470/1 ).

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Keywords

Andes
biogeography
geology
plant diversity
vascular plants
Bolivian altiplano
Late miocene rise
Eastern cordillera
Continental-scale
Surface uplift
Plant diversification
Northern andes
Adaptive radiation
Climate-change
Rapid diversification

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