Scientists propose new evolution model for tropical rainforests
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists from Wageningen UR and other institutes are proposing a new research model - the turnover model - as a way of answering the question why there are always so many plant species in tropical rainforests. In their publication in New Phytologist magazine, the Dutch, British and Swiss scientists show that major evolutionary changes, such as the origin of large groups of species, occur with a reasonably constant frequency while the origin of new species is an explosive process.