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Testing the Relationships between Diversification, Species Richness, and Trait Evolution.
Systematic biology - 1 Nov 2016
Kozak Kenneth H, Wiens John J
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Understanding which traits drive species diversification is essential for macroevolutionary studies and to understand patterns of species richness among clades. An important tool for testing if traits influence diversification is to estimate rates of net diversification for each clade, and then test for a relationship between traits and diversification rates among clades. However, this general approach has become...
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