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SUBMITTER: Burns JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3069184 | biostudies-other | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110314 13
The relationship between phylogenetic distance and ecological similarity is key to understanding mechanisms of community assembly, a central goal of ecology. The field of community phylogenetics uses phylogenetic information to infer mechanisms of community assembly; we explore, the underlying relationship between phylogenetic similarity and the niche. We combined a field experiment using 32 native plant species with a molecular phylogeny and found that closely related plant species shared simil ...[more]