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

Published:2021-04-02 Issue:6537 Volume:372 Page:63-68
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Carvalho Mónica R.¹²^ORCID,Jaramillo Carlos¹³⁴^ORCID,de la Parra Felipe⁵^ORCID,Caballero-Rodríguez Dayenari¹^ORCID,Herrera Fabiany¹⁶^ORCID,Wing Scott⁷^ORCID,Turner Benjamin L.¹⁸^ORCID,D’Apolito Carlos¹⁹^ORCID,Romero-Báez Millerlandy¹¹⁰^ORCID,Narváez Paula¹¹¹^ORCID,Martínez Camila¹^ORCID,Gutierrez Mauricio¹¹²^ORCID,Labandeira Conrad⁷¹³¹⁴^ORCID,Bayona German¹⁵^ORCID,Rueda Milton¹⁶^ORCID,Paez-Reyes Manuel¹¹⁷^ORCID,Cárdenas Dairon¹⁸,Duque Álvaro¹⁹^ORCID,Crowley James L.²⁰,Santos Carlos²¹,Silvestro Daniele²²²³

Affiliation:

1. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

2. Grupo de Investigación Paleontología Neotropical Tradicional y Molecular (PaleoNeo), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.

3. ISEM, U. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.

4. Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

5. Instituto Colombiano del Petróleo, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

6. Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, IL, USA.

7. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA.

8. Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

9. Faculdade de Geociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil.

10. ExxonMobil Corporation, Spring, TX, USA.

11. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, CCT-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina.

12. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

13. Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

14. College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.

15. Corporación Geológica Ares, Bogotá, Colombia.

16. Paleoflora Ltda, Zapatoca, Colombia.

17. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

18. Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Leticia, Colombia.

19. Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.

20. Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA.

21. BP Exploration Operating Company Limited, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, UK.

22. Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

23. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg and Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Abstract

The birth of modern rainforests The origin of modern rainforests can be traced to the aftermath of the bolide impact at the end of the Cretaceous. Carvalho et al. used fossilized pollen and leaves to characterize the changes that took place in northern South American forests at this time (see the Perspective by Jacobs and Currano). They not only found changes in species composition but were also able to infer changes in forest structure. Extinctions were widespread, especially among gymnosperms. Angiosperm taxa came to dominate the forests over the 6 million years of recovery, when the flora began to resemble that of modern lowland neotropical forest. The leaf data also imply that the forest canopy evolved from relatively open to closed and layered, leading to increased vertical stratification and a greater diversity of plant growth forms. Science , this issue p. 63 ; see also p. 28

Funder

National Science Foundation

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Swiss National Science Foundation

Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare

Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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