Recent accelerated diversification in rosids occurred outside the tropics
There is mixed evidence for how temperature affects diversification rates. Here, authors use a supermatrix of nearly 20,000 rosid species, comprising almost a quarter of flowering plants, to show that tropical groups are older and speciated twice as slowly as their counterparts from cooler climates.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17116-5 |