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Evolutionary history of tropical forests

Geologic eras: a revision...

Jurassic 135 million years ago Cretaceous 65 million years ago Triassic 200 million years ago Permian 225 million years ago Present day The Earth: always changing

Rainforest distribution under various climate regimes RAINFOREST FROST LIMITS

Leaf morphology tells us about past temperature

mil. yrs Angiosperm revolution: 90 million years ago

Late Cretaceous: origin of many rainforest plant taxa

Paleocene: first closed canopy rainforests, in three tropical belts

Oligocene: after Eocene cooling, rainforests only around the equator

The sudden warming probably triggered by massive CO2 discharge from ocean see vents, or deep-ocean gas hydrates? Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum: “super greenhouse” distribution of rainforests, resulting in many important dispersal events

Miocene: “greenhouse” distribution of rainforests in a single wide belt

Last glacial maximum 16-20,000 yr ago: rainforests fragmented

Latitudinal extent of tropical rainforest climates is highly variable

The oldest rainforests: New Caledonia, Madagascar, East Australia New Caledonia managed to stay in tropical climatic zone for the past 70 mil years

Changes in distribution patterns: Nypa fructicans, one of the oldest contemporary palm species known from fossil records (70 mil years old) Fossil Nypa roots

Land bridge between the Americas : 3 million years ago

Our unstable times: geologically fast changes in temperature and see level

This and following vegetation maps: Jonathan Adams,University of Adelaide Closed forest retreat during last glacial maximum

Vegetation change between last glacial maximum and present

22-16 ya - glacial maximum Vegetation change between last glacial maximum and present

Vegetation change between last glacial maximum and present

Glacial maximum: SE islands connected with the continent Old rivers

Changes in altitudinal zonation from the last glacial maximum

Colombian Andes New GuineaEast Africa Changes in the upper forest limit during late Quarternary

Continental altitudinal profiles: high elevations in Africa lead to smaller lowland rainforest areas during glacial maximum The curve shows % of land area below a particular elevation in km During the last glacial maximum, only 15% of land area in Africa was in the lowland rainforest zone, compared to 35% in S. America and 40% in Asia AND tropical forests in Africa are now the least diverse...

Byrsonima Curatella Variable proportion of forests and grasslands in S. America during past 10,000 years [based on pollen analysis] grasses and sedges

Forest area change in past 20,000 yr in Africa pollen from lake sediments

Do species boundaries correspond to glacial forest refugia?

Reconstructed species richness maxima [Pleistocene glacial refugia] for butterflies, lizards and birds only partially overlap

Conclusions: The present distribution of tropical forests is very recent and most species evolved in different places than those they are facing now. Current decrease in rainforest area has a recent precedent - during past glacial maximum, only 18,000 years ago. The present-day rainforest ecosystems are therefore not venerable finely-tuned systems, but rather hastily assembled makeshift contraptions. This last point is well explained in: Daniel H. Janzen (1985) On ecological fitting. Oikos 45: 308.