Neogene History of the Amazonian Flora: A Perspective Based on Geological, Palynological, and Molecular Phylogenetic Data

The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras

(2022) Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Cenozoic weathering of fluvial terraces and emergence of biogeographic boundaries in Central Amazonia

(2022) Cécile Gautheron et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Spatio‐temporal evolution of the catuaba clade in the Neotropics: Morphological shifts correlate with habitat transitions

(2022) Maria Fernanda Calió et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Alternate Atlantic forest and climate phases during the early Pleistocene 41 kyr cycles in southeastern Brazil

(2022) Paula A. Rodríguez-Zorro et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Diversification dynamics in the Neotropics through time, clades and biogeographic regions

(2022) Andrea S Meseguer et al.   eLife

Linking modern-day relicts to a Miocene mangrove community of western Amazonia

(2021) Matteo Sciumbata et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Andean mountain building since the Late Cretaceous: A paleoelevation reconstruction

(2021) Lydian M. Boschman   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate and geological change as drivers of Mauritiinae palm biogeography

(2021) Giovanni Bogotá‐Ángel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogeny, divergence times, and diversification in Calophyllaceae: Linking key characters and habitat changes to the evolution of Neotropical Calophylleae

(2021) Fernanda Nunes Cabral et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

(2021) Mónica R. Carvalho et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical weathering history recorded in the silicon isotopes of lateritic weathering profiles

(2021) Damien Guinoiseau et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Marine-lacustrine systems during the Eocene in northern South America – Palynological evidence from Colombia

(2021) Felipe De La Parra et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

The Miocene wetland of western Amazonia and its role in Neotropical biogeography

(2021) Carina Hoorn et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mountain radiations are not only rapid and recent: Ancient diversification of South American frog and lizard families related to Paleogene Andean orogeny and Cenozoic climate variations

(2021) Lydian M. Boschman et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Changes in rainfall seasonality inferred from weathering and pedogenic trends in mid-Miocene paleosols of La Tatacoa, Colombia

(2021) Susana Salazar-Jaramillo et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Marine influence in western Amazonia during the late Miocene

(2021) Bruno S. Espinosa et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests

(2021) Jun Ying Lim et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

(2021) Oskar Hagen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cyclic sediment deposition by orbital forcing in the Miocene wetland of western Amazonia? New insights from a multidisciplinary approach

(2021) Carina Hoorn et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Ancient tropical extinctions at high latitudes contributed to the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2020) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   EVOLUTION

Integrated seismic and well-log analysis for the exploration of stratigraphic traps in the Carbonera Formation, Llanos foreland basin of Colombia

(2020) Lucia Torrado et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Re-investigating Miocene age control and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in western Amazonia (northwestern Solimões Basin, Brazil)

(2020) Andrea K. Kern et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

New Neogene index pollen and spore taxa from the Solimões Basin (western Amazonia), Brazil

(2020) Fátima P. R. Leite et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Cenozoic sea-level and cryospheric evolution from deep-sea geochemical and continental margin records

(2020) Kenneth G. Miller et al.   Science Advances

Rapid diversification rates in Amazonian Chrysobalanaceae inferred from plastid genome phylogenetics

(2020) Jerome Chave et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years

(2020) Thomas Westerhold et al.   SCIENCE

The distribution of biodiversity richness in the tropics

(2020) Peter H. Raven et al.   Science Advances

Drastic Vegetation Change in the Guajira Peninsula (Colombia) during the Neogene

(2020) Carlos Jaramillo et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

(2020) Michael G. Harvey et al.   SCIENCE

The Miocene: the Future of the Past

(2020) M. Steinthorsdottir et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Could coastal plants in western Amazonia be relicts of past marine incursions?

(2019) Rodrigo Bernal et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrated biozonation based on palynology and ostracods from the Neogene of Solimões Basin, Brazil

(2019) Ana P. Linhares et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Going north and south: The biogeographic history of two Malvaceae in the wake of Neogene Andean uplift and connectivity between the Americas

(2019) Carina Hoorn et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Continental margin response to multiple arc-continent collisions: The northern Andes-Caribbean margin

(2019) Camilo Montes et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A fully resolved backbone phylogeny reveals numerous dispersals and explosive diversifications throughout the history of Asteraceae

(2019) Jennifer R. Mandel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A dynamic continental moisture gradient drove Amazonian bird diversification

(2019) Sofia Marques Silva et al.   Science Advances

Growth and steady state of the Patagonian Andes

(2019) David Auerbach Colwyn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Assessing the causes of diversification slowdowns: temperature‐dependent and diversity‐dependent models receive equivalent support

(2019) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Provenance of the Neogene sediments from the Solimões Formation (Solimões and Acre Basins), Brazil

(2019) Adriana Maria Coimbra Horbe et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Neogene palynostratigraphic zonation of the Marañon basin (Western Amazonia, Peru)

(2019) Francisco Javier Parra et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

(2019) Carsten Rahbek et al.   SCIENCE

Unexpected fish diversity gradients in the Amazon basin

(2019) Thierry Oberdorff et al.   Science Advances

Exploring geophysical and palynological proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the Miocene of western Amazonia (Solimões Formation, Brazil)

(2019) Verônica Jorge et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Compositional and Diversity comparisons between the palynological records of the Neogene (Solimões Formation) and Holocene sediments of western Amazonia

(2019) Bianca Tacoronte Gomes et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Andean Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics as a Pervasive Influence on Amazonian Ecosystem

(2019) Tacio Cordeiro Bicudo et al.   Scientific Reports

Accelerated diversification correlated with functional traits shapes extant diversity of the early divergent angiosperm family Annonaceae

(2019) B. Xue et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Miocene paleoenvironmental changes in the Solimões Basin, western Amazon, Brazil: A reconstruction based on palynofacies analysis

(2019) Natália de Paula Sá et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Neogene paleoecology and biogeography of a Malvoid pollen in northwestern South America

(2019) Bruno S. Espinosa et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Sedimentary record of Andean mountain building

(2018) Brian K. Horton   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Atlantic forests to the all Americas: Biogeographical history and divergence times of Neotropical Ficus (Moraceae)

(2018) Anderson Ferreira Pinto Machado et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Is Amazonia a ‘museum’ for Neotropical trees? The evolution of the Brownea clade (Detarioideae, Leguminosae)

(2018) Rowan J. Schley et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Pliocene–Pleistocene palynology of the Negro River, Brazil

(2018) Carlos D'Apolito et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How Well Can We Estimate Diversity Dynamics for Clades in Diversity Decline?

(2018) Gustavo Burin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The changing course of the Amazon River in the Neogene: center stage for Neotropical diversification

(2018) James S. Albert et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Contrasting patterns of diversification between Amazonian and Atlantic forest clades of Neotropical lianas (Amphilophium, Bignonieae) inferred from plastid genomic data

(2018) Verônica A. Thode et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Patterns of floristic diversity and composition in floodplain forests across four Southern Amazon river tributaries, Brazil

(2017) Rafael Leandro de Assis et al.   FLORA

The Amazon at sea: Onset and stages of the Amazon River from a marine record, with special reference to Neogene plant turnover in the drainage basin

(2017) Carina Hoorn et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The significance of marine microfossils for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Solimões Formation (Miocene), western Amazonia, Brazil

(2017) Ana Paula Linhares et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Sedimentology and Palynostratigraphy of a Pliocene-Pleistocene (Piacenzian to Gelasian) deposit in the lower Negro River: Implications for the establishment of large rivers in Central Amazonia

(2017) Emílio Alberto Amaral Soares et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot

(2017) Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin

(2017) Kyle G. Dexter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lygodium (Schizaeaceae) in southern high latitudes during the Cenozoic — A new species and new insights into character evolution in the genus

(2017) Andrew C. Rozefelds et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas

(2017) Carmen Ulloa Ulloa et al.   SCIENCE

Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

(2017) Carlos Jaramillo et al.   Science Advances

Neogene palynology of the Solimões Basin, Brazilian Amazonia

(2017) Silane A. F. da Silva-Caminha et al.   Palaeontographica Abteilung B-Palaeophytologie Palaeobotany-Palaeophytology

Magmatic history and crustal genesis of western South America: Constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons in modern rivers

(2016) Martin Pepper et al.   Geosphere

Andean topographic growth and basement uplift in southern Colombia: Implications for the evolution of the Magdalena, Orinoco, and Amazon river systems

(2016) Veronica J. Anderson et al.   Geosphere

A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

(2016) Pierre-Olivier Antoine et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Amazon forest dynamics under changing abiotic conditions in the early Miocene (Colombian Amazonia)

(2016) Sonia Salamanca Villegas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange

(2016) Jonathan I. Bloch et al.   NATURE

The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in Andean bellflowers (Campanulaceae)

(2016) Laura P. Lagomarsino et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The effects of the inception of Amazonian transcontinental drainage during the Neogene on the landscape and vegetation of the Solimões Basin, Brazil

(2016) Fatima P.R. Leite et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Palynology of the Middle Miocene—Pliocene Novo Remanso Formation, Central Amazonia, Brazil

(2015) José Tasso Felix Guimarães et al.   AMEGHINIANA

The detrital record of late-Miocene to Pliocene surface uplift and exhumation of the Venezuelan Andes in the Maracaibo and Barinas foreland basins

(2015) M. A. Bermúdez et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Modern and long-term evaporation of central Andes surface waters suggests paleo archives underestimate Neogene elevations

(2015) Richard P. Fiorella et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic Ocean

(2015) Roi Granot et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Coupled tectonic evolution of Andean orogeny and global climate

(2015) Rolando Armijo et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Paleoelevation records from lipid biomarkers: Application to the tropical Andes

(2015) Veronica J. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Phylogeny and biogeography of Tynanthus Miers (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae)

(2015) Maria Cláudia M.P. de Medeiros et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Marine connections of Amazonia: Evidence from foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts (early to middle Miocene, Colombia/Peru)

(2015) M. Boonstra et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palinologia (grãos de pólen de angiospermas) das formações Solimões e Içá (bacia do Solimões), nas regiões de Coari e Alto Solimões, Amazonas

(2015) Rosemery Rocha da Silveira et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

(2015) C. Montes et al.   SCIENCE

New sedimentological and palynological data from surface Miocene strata in the central Amazonas Basin area

(2015) Emílio Alberto Amaral Soares et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Clumped isotope evidence for diachronous surface cooling of the Altiplano and pulsed surface uplift of the Central Andes

(2014) Carmala N. Garzione et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

INVESTIGATING PROCESSES OF NEOTROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREE DIVERSIFICATION BY EXAMINING THE EVOLUTION AND HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PROTIEAE (BURSERACEAE)

(2014) Paul V. A. Fine et al.   EVOLUTION

Biogeographical regionalisation of the Neotropical region

(2014) JUAN J. MORRONE   ZOOTAXA

Stable isotope evidence for multiple pulses of rapid surface uplift in the Central Andes, Bolivia

(2013) Andrew Leier et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change

(2013) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Biogeography of the Araucarian Dispersed Pollen Cyclusphaera

(2013) Carlos Jaramillo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Neogene–Quaternary sedimentary and paleovegetation history of the eastern Solimões Basin, central Amazon region

(2013) Afonso César Rodrigues Nogueira et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide

(2013) J. Hansen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

(2013) Santiago Madriñán et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Neogene Eastern Amazon carbonate platform and the palaeoenvironmental interpretation

(2013) Orangel Aguilera et al.   Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Pattern and timing of biogeographical history in the Neotropical tribe Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae)

(2012) Lúcia G. Lohmann et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Cretaceous forest composition and productivity inferred from a global fossil wood database

(2012) Emiliano Peralta-Medina et al.   GEOLOGY

The final phase of tropical lowland conditions in the axial zone of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: Evidence from three palynological records

(2012) D. Ochoa et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Grimsdalea magnaclavataGermeraad, Hopping & Muller: an enigmatic pollen type from the Neogene of northern South America

(2012) David T. Pocknall et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Geological control of floristic composition in Amazonian forests

(2011) Mark A. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Palynostratigraphy and sedimentary facies of Middle Miocene fluvial deposits of the Amazonas Basin, Brazil

(2011) Rodolfo Dino et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

A palynological zonation for the Cenozoic of the Llanos and Llanos Foothills of Colombia

(2011) Carlos A. Jaramillo et al.   PALYNOLOGY

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Late Miocene paleogeography of the Amazon Basin and the evolution of the Amazon River system

(2010) Edgardo M. Latrubesse et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Miocene onset of the Amazon River and the Amazon deep-sea fan: Evidence from the Foz do Amazonas Basin: Reply

(2010) J. Figueiredo et al.   GEOLOGY

Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction

(2010) G. E. Shephard et al.   Nature Geoscience

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

When Can Decreasing Diversification Rates Be Detected with Molecular Phylogenies and the Fossil Record?

(2010) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Late Miocene onset of the Amazon River and the Amazon deep-sea fan: Evidence from the Foz do Amazonas Basin

(2009) J. Figueiredo et al.   GEOLOGY

Seismic structure, gravity anomalies, and flexure of the Amazon continental margin, NE Brazil

(2009) A. B. Watts et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

(2009) M. F. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution

(2009) A. Antonelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Present-day South American climate

(2008) René D. Garreaud et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?

(2008) S. P. Hubbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA