AHZ	Amotape-Huancabamba zone
AICc	Akaike information criterion
BioClim	bioclimatic
BM	Brownian motion model of evolution
BMM Regime	two-rate BM model
BMM Geo	three rate BM model
DTT	disparity through time
EB	Early burst model
ER	ecological release model
LMF	lower montane forest
Ma	Million years ago
MCC tree	maximum clade credibility tree
MDI	morphological disparity index
MMF	middle elevation montane forest
MRCA	most recent common ancestor
Myr	million years
NRMSE	normalized root squared error
OU	Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model with a single optimum
OUM Geo	OU model with three optima
OUM Regime	OU model with two optima
PIC	phylogenetic independent contrasts
PCM	phylogenetic comparative method
PCO	Pleistocene climatic oscillations
pPCA	phylogenetic principal components analysis
SHIFT	a two-rate BM model
SLA	specific leaf area
UMF	upper montane forest