Peter Møller Jørgensen
Peter Møller Jørgensen ( 1958 ) es un botánico, y curador danés.En 1985 obtuvo su Maestría en Ciencias en la Universidad de Aarhus. En 1993 se doctoró en la misma Universidad, con un tema relacionado con la vegetación de los bosques de montaña en la Cordillera de los Andes.
Es curador e investigador del Jardín Botánico de Missouri. Se dedica a la investigación en el campo de la florística neotropical, plantas de la familia ''Passifloraceae, Olacaceae y Santalaceae''. proporcionado por Wikipedia
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Within the tropics, the species richness of tree communities is strongly and positively associated with precipitation. Previous research has suggested that this macroecological pattern is driven by the negative effect of water‐stress on the physiological processes of most tree species. This implies that the range limits of taxa are defined by their ability to occur under dry conditions, and thus in terms of species distributions predicts a nested pattern of taxa distribution from wet to dry areas. However, this ‘dry‐tolerance’ hypothesis has yet to be adequately tested at large spatial and taxonomic scales. Here, using a dataset of 531 inventory plots of closed canopy forest distributed across the western Neotropics we investigated how precipitation, evaluated both as mean annual precipitation and as the maximum climatological water deficit, influences the distribution of tropica...