Titre
Proto-South-East Asia as a trigger of early angiosperm diversification
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Buerki, S.
Auteure/Auteur
Forest, F.
Auteure/Auteur
Alvarez, N.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
0024-4074
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2014
Volume
174
Numéro
3
Première page
326
Dernière page/numéro d’article
333
Langue
anglais
Notes
buerki2014proto
Résumé
Darwin described as an 'abominable mystery' the abrupt origin of angiosperms in the mid-Cretaceous and the high diversification rates in their early history. The father of evolutionary theory could not fathom this rapid diversification and rather invoked that 'there was during long ages a small isolated continent in the S. hemisphere, which served as the birthplace of the higher plants'. In this essay, we comment on the spatial origin of angiosperms, but focus primarily on understanding the abiotic factors that promoted the early diversification of angiosperms by reviewing palaeobotanical, palaeogeographical, phylogenetics and biogeographical evidence. We argue that islands located in the region today occupied by South-East Asia played a major role in angiosperm diversification during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_919EC0CB6F7B
Open Access
Oui
Date de création
2014-02-14T15:13:53.330Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T22:03:12Z