Patterns of Beta Diversity of Vascular Plants and Their Correspondence With Biome Boundaries Across North America

Patterns of Beta Diversity of Vascular Plants and Their Correspondence With Biome Boundaries Across North America

Understanding why species composition and diversity varies spatially and with environmental variation is a long-standing theme in macroecological research. Numerous hypotheses have been generated to explain species and phylogenetic diversity gradients. Much less attention has been invested in explai...

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Main Authors: Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma, Daniel J. Larkin, Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
beta diversity
biomes
functional traits
nestedness
niche conservatism
turnover
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2018.00194/full

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