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Introduction.. Part I Neotropical Diversity and Diversification.. 2 Neotropical Diversification: Historical Overview and Conceptual Insights.. 3 Beyond Refugia: New Insights on Quaternary Climate Variation and the Evolution of Biotic Diversity in Tropical South America.. 4 Tropical and Subtropical South America: A Study of Community Turnover Across Environmental Gradients.. 5 Evolutionary Macroecology and the Geographical Patterns of Neotropical Diversification.. 6 Evolutionary Imprints on Species Distribution Patterns Across the Neotropics.. 7 Diatom Diversity and Biogeography Across Tropical South America.. 8 Avian Diversity in Humid Tropical and Subtropical South American Forests, with a Discussion About Their Related Climatic and Geological Underpinnings.. 9 Contrasting Patterns of Temporal Diversification in Neotropical Butterflies: An Overview.. Part II Regional Biodiversity Patterns and Diversification Processes.. 10 The Origin and Evolution of Amazonian Species Diversity.. 11 Patterns and Processes of Diversification in Amazonian White Sand Ecosystems: Insights from Birds and Plants.. 12 On the Young Savannas in the Land of Ancient Forests.. 13 Diversity, Endemism, and Evolutionary History of Montane Biotas Outside the Andean Region.. 14 Diversification in Ancient and Nutrient-Poor Neotropical Ecosystems: How Geological and Climatic Buffering Shaped Plant Diversity in Some of the World’s Neglected Hotspots.. 15 The Pantepui “Lost World”: Towards a Biogeographical, Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis of a Pristine Neotropical Sky-Island Archipelago.. 16 Patterns of Species and Lineage Diversity in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil.. 17 Forests Diversity in the Mexican Neotropics: A Paleoecological View.. 18 Bioregions of Eastern Brazil, Based on Vascular Plant Occurrence Data.. 19 Human Contribution to Amazonian Plant Diversity: Legacy of Pre-Columbian Land Use in Modern Plant Communities.. 20 Historical Biogeography of Caribbean Plants Revises Regional Paleogeograph.. 21 The Diversification of Extant Angiosperms in the South America Dry Diagonal.. Part III Taxon-Based Local and Regional Studies.. 22 Amphibians and Reptiles of Venezuelan Guayana: Diversity, Biogeography and Conservation.. 23 Origin of Elevational Replacements in a Clade of Nearly Flightless Birds: Most Diversity in Tropical Mountains Accumulates via Secondary Contact Following Allopatric Speciation.. 24 Clade-Specific Biogeographic History and Climatic Niche Shifts of the Southern Andean-Southern Brazilian Disjunction in Plants.. 25 Biotic and Landscape Evolution in an Amazonian Contact Zone: Insights from the Herpetofauna of the Tapajós River Basin, Brazil.. 26 Diversification Processes in Lizards and Snakes from the Middle São Francisco River Dune Region, Brazil.. 27 Unexpected Beta-Diversity Radiations in Highland Clades of Andean Terraranae Frogs.. 28 Disparate Patterns of Diversification Within Liolaemini Lizards.. 29 Diversification History of Neotropical Lecythidaceae, an Ecologically Dominant Tree Family of Amazon Rain Forest.. Part IV Epilogue.. 30 Conservation in the Neotropics: A Final Reflection.. Correction to: Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of biodiversity in various neotropical ecosystems, as well as a discussion on their historical biogeographies and underlying diversification processes. All chapters were written by prominent researchers in the fields of tropical biology, molecular ecology, climatology, paleoecology, and geography, producing an outstanding collection of essays, synthetic analyses, and novel investigations that describe and improve our understanding of the biodiversity of this unique region. With chapters on the Amazon and Caribbean forests, the Atlantic rainforests, the Andes, the Cerrado savannahs, the Caatinga drylands, the Chaco, and Mesoamerica - along with broad taxonomic coverage - this book summarizes a wide range of hypotheses, views, and methods concerning the processes and mechanisms of neotropical diversification. The range of perspectives presented makes the book a truly comprehensive, state-of-the-art publication on the topic, which will fascinate both scientists and general readers alike. Inglés