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SUBMITTER: Economo EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5934361 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Economo Evan P EP Narula Nitish N Friedman Nicholas R NR Weiser Michael D MD Guénard Benoit B
Nature communications 20180503 1
The latitudinal diversity gradient-the tendency for more species to occur toward the equator-is the dominant pattern of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms responsible for it remain largely unexplained. Recently, the analysis of global data has led to advances in understanding, but these advances have been mostly limited to vertebrates and trees and have not provided consensus answers. Here we synthesize large-scale geographic, phylogenetic, and fossil data for an exemplar invertebrate group-ants- ...[more]