More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5302-5307

  Burns, Jean H ^a,b   Strauss, Sharon Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin's naturalization hypothesis; Phylogenetic signal

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SPECIES;

EID: 79955092596     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013003108     Document Type: Article

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