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SUBMITTER: Nicholson DB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5180147 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nicholson David B DB Holroyd Patricia A PA Valdes Paul P Barrett Paul M PM
Royal Society open science 20161123 11
The latitudinal biodiversity gradient (LBG)-the pattern of increasing taxonomic richness with decreasing latitude-is prevalent in the structure of the modern biota. However, some freshwater taxa show peak richness at mid-latitudes; for example, extant Testudines (turtles, terrapins and tortoises) exhibit their greatest diversity at 25° N, a pattern sometimes attributed to recent bursts of climatically mediated species diversification. Here, we test whether this pattern also characterizes the Mes ...[more]