1). These areas contain not only the highest plant diversity and endemism, but are also recognized as evolutionary cradles in China (r ∈ (0.67, 0.90), Fig. 3d–f)28,29. There are two potential explanations for the above pattern. (1) The evolution of traits associated with extinction ...
Known fruit-feeding interactions between frugivores and native Mauritian plants within the functional trait space of the plants (n = 263 plant species, PCoA, Gower distance, variation explained by axis 1 = 61.33%, axis 2 = 20.9%, Supplementary Fig.2, 25% missing data imputed wit...
Trait selectivity Femur length shows high phylogenetic signal across the Archosauromorpha (Pagel's λ > 0.75), but there is little evidence of a significant correlation between femur length and extinction probability. Across all time-scaling methods, only 1.11% of the analyses show a significant re...
27,28. Understanding how ecosystems respond to species loss has hence been the subject of numerous theoretical and experimental studies29,30. While some communities exhibit density compensation31,32, a common form of adaptation in food webs is represented by the rewiring of...
In addition, there are inherent limitations for reconstructing ancestral character states, and thus for inferring when a biome shift occurred. This might be less of a problem here, as the evolution of biome association is very clear and includes few shifts. As taxonomic sampling becomes more exten...
Landraces (LRs) are crop populations that are locally grown by farmers; they have a strategic role to play in rebuilding healthy and complex agro-ecosystems, but are at risk of extinction. This paper outlines how some LRs were rescued with the support of modern techniques such as molecular mar...
‘neutral’ explanations), the heritable trait(s) responsible for diver- sification rate variation is rarely known. The Proteaceae is a flowering plant family with > 1700 species widely distributed throughout the Southern Hemisphere which ...
Further, tectonic evolution of PU will lead to large variations inpCO2(over 102 years (for example, hyperthermal events45) and 105 years (for example, volcanism46)), as observed through the geologic record and seen as a natural consequence of supercontinent assembly and decay27, enhancing ...
Seven (14%) coastal functional entities (unique trait combinations) disappeared, along with 17% of functional richness (volume of the functional space). The origination of new genera during the Pleistocene created new functional entities and contributed to a functional shift of 21%, but minimally ...
evolution of genetic structure on small spatial scales in a natural marine system. Previous investigations ofA. polyacanthus, as well as the presence of several colour morphs on the GBR, suggest that sufficient time has elapsed since colonisation of the GBR began by this species for it to have ...