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Two ways to be endemic. Alps and Apennines are different functional refugia during climatic cycles.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2021
Menchetti Mattia, Talavera Gerard, Cini Alessandro, Salvati Vania, Dincă Vlad, Platania Leonardo, Bonelli Simona, Balletto Emilio, Vila Roger, Dapporto Leonardo
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Endemics co-occur because they evolved in situ and persist regionally or because they evolved ex situ and later dispersed to shared habitats, generating evolutionary or ecological endemicity centres, respectively. We investigate whether different endemicity centres can intertwine in the region ranging from Alps to Sicily, by studying their butterfly fauna. We gathered an extensive occurrence data set for...
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