The Evolutionary Legacy of Diversification Predicts Ecosystem Function
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The Evolutionary Legacy of Diversification Predicts Ecosystem Function.
Theory suggests that the structure of evolutionary history represented in a species community may affect its functioning, but phylogenetic diversity metrics do not allow for the identification of major differences in this structure. Here we propose a new metric, ELDERness (for Evolutionary Legacy of DivERsity) to estimate evolutionary branching patterns within communities by fitting a polynomia...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Naturalist
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0003-0147,1537-5323
DOI: 10.1086/687964