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Historical Biogeography of the Gingers and Its Implications for Shifts in Tropical Rain Forest Habitats by Jian‐Li Zhao; Xiang‐Qin Yu; W. John Kress; Ya‐Li Wang; Yong‐Mei Xia; Qing‐Jun Li is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
## Abstract ## Aim The relationships between biome shifts and global environmental changes in temperate zone habitats have been extensively explored; yet, the historical dynamics of taxa found in the tropical rain forest (TRF) remain poorly known. This study aims to reconstruct the relationships between tropical rain forest shifts and global environmental changes through the patterns of historical biogeography of a pantropical family of monocots, the Zingiberaceae. ## Location Global. ## Taxon Zingiberaceae. ## Methods We sampled DNA sequences (nrITS, trnK, trnL‐trnF and psbA‐trnH) from GenBank for 77% of the genera, including 30% of species, in the Zingiberaceae. Global fossil records of the Zingiberaceae were collected from literatures. Rates of speciation, extinction and diversification were estimated based on phylogenetic data and fossil records through methods implemented in BAMM. Ancestral ranges were estimated using single‐tree BioGeoBEARS and multiple‐trees BioGeoBEARS in RASP. Dispersal rate through time and dispersal rate among regions were calculated in R based on the result of ancestral estimation. ## Results The common ancestor of the Zingiberaceae likely originated in
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- Author
- Jian‐Li Zhao; Xiang‐Qin Yu; W. John Kress; Ya‐Li Wang; Yong‐Mei Xia; Qing‐Jun Li
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)