Abstract
We identify key interdisciplinary questions and approaches to understanding the paleogeographic and biotic history of Amazonia. We discuss the importance of comparing evolutionary taxonomic units across groups and considering their particular environmental affinities as a framework for a mechanistic understanding of how the diversity of Amazonia was assembled across space and time. Although lineage diversity of the Amazonian biota is often quite old, current evidence indicates that much of Amazonia’s observed “species-level” diversity, as exemplified by birds, mammals, and butterflies, is young, mostly dating to the Quaternary. Much of the modern Amazonian landscape, including in particular its hydrological and environmental systems, was shaped over the Pliocene and Quaternary (last 5 Ma), yet significant landscape change affecting the evolution of biotas is less than 2 million years old.
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04 July 2020
The original version of the book was inadvertently published with an incorrect fore name of the author in chapters 10 and 11 as C. Camila Ribas. The name has been now corrected as Camila C. Ribas
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These ideas have been developed with support from the grants: “Dimensions US-Biota-São Paulo: Assembly and evolution of the Amazon biota and its environment: an integrated approach”, co-funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF DEB 1241066), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, grant #2012/50260-6) to JC and LGL; PEER/USAID (AID-OAA-A-11-00012) grant to CCR, AA and JC; and NSF FESD (EAR-1338694) to PAB and SCF. CCR and CHG are supported by CNPq research fellowships (respectively #458311/2013-8 and 307647/2015-3). Support has also been provided by CNPq, CAPES and FAPEAM in the form of student fellowships and research grants.
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Cracraft, J. et al. (2020). The Origin and Evolution of Amazonian Species Diversity. In: Rull, V., Carnaval, A. (eds) Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4_10
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