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Advances in the use of DNA barcodes to build a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican forest dynamics plot.
PloS one - 9 Nov 2010
Kress W John, Erickson David L, Swenson Nathan G, Thompson Jill, Uriarte Maria, Zimmerman Jess K
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BACKGROUND: Species number, functional traits, and phylogenetic history all contribute to characterizing the biological diversity in plant communities. The phylogenetic component of diversity has been particularly difficult to quantify in species-rich tropical tree assemblages. The compilation of previously published (and often incomplete) data on evolutionary relationships of species into a composite phylogeny...
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