title: The Origins of Tropical Rainforest Hyperdiversity.
abstract: Traditional models for tropical species richness contrast rainforests as "museums" of old species or "cradles" of recent speciation. High plant species diversity in rainforests may be more likely to reflect high episodic evolutionary turnover of species--a scenario implicating high rates of both speciation and extinction through geological time.
authors.affiliation: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK. Electronic address: t.pennington@rbge.ac.uk.
authors.forename: R Toby
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Pennington
authors.affiliation: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.affiliation: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK.
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Moonlight
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D029582:Meliaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D065947:Rainforest