Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades

Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades

Aim: Ecological niche concepts, in combination with biogeographic history, underlie our understanding of biogeographic ranges. Two pillars of this understanding are competitive displacement and niche conservatism. The competitive displacement hypothesis holds that very similar (e.g. closely related)...

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Main Authors: Steinbauer, Manuel J., Field, Richard, Fernández-Palacios, José-Maria, Irl, Severin D.H., Rüdiger, Otto, Schaefer, Hanno, Beierkuhnlein, Carl
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2016
Subjects:
Adaptive radiation; climate; competition; divergence; ecological character displacement; endemic plants; ghost of competition past; niche conservatism; sister clades; speciation
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34329/

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