To quantify evolutionary transitions between tropical evergreen rain forest and seasonally dry biomes, to test whether biome transitions affect lineage diversification and to examine the robustness of these results to methodological choices.

中文翻译：

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生物群落之间的过渡在孟买科（锦葵科）中是常见的和方向性的。

为了量化热带常绿雨林和季节性干旱生物群落之间的进化过渡，以检验生物群落过渡是否影响谱系多样性，并检验这些结果对方法选择的稳健性。