Influence of environmental variability on phylogenetic diversity and trait diversity within Calligonum communities

• Published in: EXCLI journal Vol. 13; pp. 172 - 177
• Main Authors: Wang, Jian-Cheng, Yang, Hong-Lan, Wang, Xi-Yong, Shi, Wei, Pan, Bo-Rong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Original; Calligonum; community composition; phylogenetic community structure; ecological process; phylogenetic signal

Since phylogenetic data provide the evolutionary history of the species and traits are the result of adaptation to the environmental conditions, joint analysis of these two aspects and ecological data may illuminate that how ecological processes affect the evolution of species and assembly of commun...