Climate drives loss of phylogenetic diversity in a grassland community [Ecology]

While climate change has already profoundly influenced biodiversity through local extinctions, range shifts, and altered interactions, its effects on the evolutionary history contained within sets of coexisting species—or phylogenetic community diversity—have yet to be documented. Phylogenetic community diversity may be a proxy for the diversity of functional strategies that can...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - September 30, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Daijiang Li, Jesse E. D. Miller, Susan Harrison Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research