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Clines Arc through Multivariate Morphospace.
The American naturalist - 1 Apr 2017
Lohman Brian K, Berner Daniel, Bolnick Daniel I
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary biologists typically represent clines as spatial gradients in a univariate character (or a principal-component axis) whose mean changes as a function of location along a transect spanning an environmental gradient or ecotone. This univariate approach may obscure the multivariate nature of phenotypic evolution across a landscape. Clines might instead be plotted as a series of vectors in...
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