Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists

Timothy R. Baker; R. Toby Pennington; Kyle G. Dexter; Paul V.A. Fine; Helen Fortune-Hopkins; Euridice N. Honorio; Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; Bente B. Klitgård; Gwilym P. Lewis; Haroldo C. de Lima; Peter Ashton; Christopher Baraloto; Stuart Davies; Michael J. Donoghue; Maria Kaye; W. John Kress; Caroline E.R. Lehmann; Abel Monteagudo; Oliver L. Phillips; Rodolfo Vasquez

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007

Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists

Timothy R. Baker, R. Toby Pennington^*, Kyle G. Dexter, Paul V.A. Fine, Helen Fortune-Hopkins, Euridice N. Honorio, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Bente B. Klitgård, Gwilym P. Lewis, Haroldo C. de Lima, Peter Ashton, Christopher Baraloto, Stuart Davies, Michael J. Donoghue, Maria Kaye, W. John Kress, Caroline E.R. Lehmann, Abel Monteagudo, Oliver L. Phillips, Rodolfo Vasquez

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Closer collaboration among ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists working in tropical forests, centred on studies within long-term permanent plots, would be highly beneficial for their respective fields. With a key unifying theme of the importance of vouchered collection and precise identification of species, especially rare ones, we identify four priority areas where improving links between these communities could achieve significant progress in biodiversity and conservation science: (i) increasing the pace of species discovery; (ii) documenting species turnover across space and time; (iii) improving models of ecosystem change; and (iv) understanding the evolutionary assembly of communities and biomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	258-267
Number of pages	10
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017

Keywords

beta diversity
global change
permanent plot
taxonomy
trait
tropical forest

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Baker, T. R., Pennington, R. T., Dexter, K. G., Fine, P. V. A., Fortune-Hopkins, H., Honorio, E. N., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I., Klitgård, B. B., Lewis, G. P., de Lima, H. C., Ashton, P., Baraloto, C., Davies, S., Donoghue, M. J., Kaye, M., Kress, W. J., Lehmann, C. E. R., Monteagudo, A., Phillips, O. L., & Vasquez, R. (2017). Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32(4), 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007

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