The exceptional levels of biodiversity found today in the American tropics are the outcome of tens of millions of years of evolution, shaped by the tumultuous geological history of the region, its heterogeneous habitats, climate change, ecological interactions and, in recent millennia, human influence. Although our understanding of diversity patterns and their underlying processes grows steadily in breadth and depth, Neotropical biodiversity is rapidly breaking down.

Video based on research by Prof. Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Professor of Biodiversity and Systematics at the University of Gothenburg, and published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society of London under the title "The rise and fall of Neotropical biodiversity"

[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]


The Linnean Society works to inform, involve and inspire people of all ages about nature and its wider interactions through our collections, programmes and publications. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).

[ Ссылка ]

Follow us on social media:
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]

свернуть