The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre-adapted clades?
A. G. Linan, J. A. Myers, C. E. Edwards, A. E. Zanne, S. A. Smith, G. Arellano, L. Cayola, W. Farfan-Rios, A. F. Fuentes, K. Garcia-Cabrera, S. Gonzales-Caro, M. I. Loza, M. J. Macia, Y. Malhi, B. Nieto-Ariza, , S. J. Tello
The paper investigates how environmental gradients shape community assembly through immigration and sorting of pre-adapted clades versus recent diversification, finding clade sorting dominates species turnover along elevational gradients.
bioRxiv · Dec 22, 2020Ecology