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Phylogenetic diversity anomaly in angiosperms between eastern Asia and eastern North America.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Oct 2017
Qian Hong, Jin Yi, Ricklefs Robert E
Abstract excerpt
Although eastern Asia (EAS) and eastern North America (ENA) have similar climates, plant species richness in EAS greatly exceeds that in ENA. The degree to which this diversity difference reflects the ages of the floras or their rates of evolutionary diversification has not been quantified. Measures of species diversity that do not incorporate the ages of lineages disregard the evolutionary distinctiveness of...
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