Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 600-614

  Gerhold, Pille ^a   Cahill, James F ^b   Winter, Marten ^c   Bartish, Igor V ^d   Prinzing, Andreas ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Evolution; Functional traits; Habitat filtering; Inter actions; Lineage pool; Macroevolutionary diversification; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISPLACEMENT; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

EID: 84929509803     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12425     Document Type: Article

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