Phylogenetic turnover during subtropical forest succession across environmental and phylogenetic scales
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Phylogenetic turnover during subtropical forest succession across environmental and phylogenetic scales
Although spatial and temporal patterns of phylogenetic community structure during succession are inherently interlinked and assembly processes vary with environmental and phylogenetic scales, successional studies of community assembly have yet to integrate spatial and temporal components of community structure, while accounting for scaling issues. To gain insight into the processes that generat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3564