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Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants.
The New phytologist - 1 Nov 2021
Prinzing Andreas, Pavoine Sandrine, Jactel Hervé, Hortal Joaquin, Hennekens Stephan M, Ozinga Wim A, Bartish Igor V, Helmus Matthew R, Kühn Ingolf, Moen Daniel S, Weiher Evan, Brändle Martin, Winter Marten, Violle Cyrille, Venail Patrick, Purschke Oliver, Yguel Benjamin
Abstract excerpt
The functioning of present ecosystems reflects deep evolutionary history of locally cooccurring species if their functional traits show high phylogenetic signal (PS). However, we do not understand what drives local PS. We hypothesize that local PS is high in undisturbed and stressful habitats, either due to ongoing local assembly of species that maintained ancestral traits, or to past evolutionary maintenance of...
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