Marcio R Pie1, Raquel Divieso2, Fernanda S Caron2

  • 1Biology Department, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK. piem@edgehill.ac.uk.

Nature communications
|July 29, 2023
PubMed
概括

对物种多样性的生态限制经常被假定,但缺乏证据. 这项研究发现,密切相关的物种 (分类密度) 与陆地脊椎动物的物种化率之间没有联系,这质疑了依赖多样性的多样化理论.

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