Shenhua Qian

Feb 4, 2024 | nature.com | Hong Qian |Shenhua Qian |Jian Zhang

AbstractThe tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological distributions (phylogenetic niche conservatism) is thought to influence which species from a species pool can persist in a particular environment. Thus, investigating the relationships between measures of phylogenetic structure and environmental variables at a global scale can help understand the variation in species richness and phylogenetic structure in biological assemblages across the world.