Increasing land use drives changes in plant phylogenetic diversity and prevalence of specialists

Increased human land use has resulted in the increased homogenization of biodiversity between sites, yet we lack sufficient indicators to predict which species decline and the consequence of their potential loss on ecosystem services. We used comparative phylogenetic analysis to (1) characterize how...

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Main Authors: Soraya Villalobos, Jana C. Vamosi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1740.pdf