@article{fdi:010069386,
  title = {{T}ropical rainforests that persisted : inferences from the {Q}uaternary demographic history of eight tree species in the {G}uiana shield},
  author = {{B}arthe, {S}. and {B}inelli, {G}. and {H}erault, {B}. and {S}cotti-{S}aintagne, {C}. and {S}abatier, {D}aniel and {S}cotti, {I}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{H}ow {Q}uaternary climatic and geological disturbances influenced the composition of {N}eotropical forests is hotly debated. {R}ainfall and temperature changes during and/or immediately after the last glacial maximum ({LGM}) are thought to have strongly affected the geographical distribution and local abundance of tree species. {T}he paucity of the fossil records in {N}eotropical forests prevents a direct reconstruction of such processes. {T}o describe community-level historical trends in forest composition, we turned therefore to inferential methods based on the reconstruction of past demographic changes. {I}n particular, we modelled the history of rainforests in the eastern {G}uiana {S}hield over a timescale of several thousand generations, through the application of approximate {B}ayesian computation and maximum-likelihood methods to diversity data at nuclear and chloroplast loci in eight species or subspecies of rainforest trees. {D}epending on the species and on the method applied, we detected population contraction, expansion or stability, with a general trend in favour of stability or expansion, with changes presumably having occurred during or after the {LGM}. {T}hese findings suggest that {G}uiana {S}hield rainforests have globally persisted, while expanding, through the {Q}uaternary, but that different species have experienced different demographic events, with a trend towards the increase in frequency of light-demanding, disturbance-associated species.},
  keywords = {biogeography ; forest ecology ; historical demography ; neotropics ; {GUYANE} {FRANCAISE} ; {AMAZONIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{M}olecular {E}cology},
  volume = {26},
  numero = {4},
  pages = {1161--1174},
  ISSN = {0962-1083},
  year = {2017},
  DOI = {10.1111/mec.13949},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010069386},
}