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Evolutionary lessons from California plant phylogeography

Victoria L Sork1, Paul F Gugger2, Jin-Ming Chen3

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496; vlsork@ucla.edu.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|July 20, 2016
PubMed
Summary

Plants offer evolutionary insights into how selection shapes genetic variation and species distribution. Their unique traits, like sessile growth and high reproduction, amplify environmental impacts on phylogeographic patterns.

Keywords:
California Floristic Provincecomparative phylogeogeographycomparative phylogeographyglaciationlocal adaptationmigration

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