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Community assembly of the ferns of Florida.
American journal of botany - 1 Mar 2018
Sessa Emily B, Chambers Sally M, Li Daijiang, Trotta Lauren, Endara Lorena, Burleigh J Gordon, Baiser Benjamin
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Many ecological and evolutionary processes shape the assembly of organisms into local communities from a regional pool of species. We analyzed phylogenetic and functional diversity to understand community assembly of the ferns of Florida at two spatial scales. METHODS: We built a phylogeny for 125 of the 141 species of ferns in Florida using five chloroplast markers. We calculated mean...
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