Environmental Science
8 years ago

Abiotic filtering shapes tree communities in tropical and temperate forests.

Ecology
Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities
Nathan G. Swenson, David L. Erickson, Xiangcheng Mi, Norman A. Bourg, Jimena Forero‐Montaña, Xue‐Jun Ge, Robert W. Howe, Jeffrey K. Lake, Xiaojuan Liu, Keping Ma, Nancai Pei, Jill Thompson, María Uriarte, Amy Wolf, S. Joseph Wright‬, Wanhui Ye, Jinlong Zhang, Jess K. Zimmerman, W. John Kress

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The study looked at different types of diversity in tree communities in tropical and temperate forests. They found that the environment plays a role in shaping the types of trees in an area and how they change from one place to another. The study showed that the types of trees in a forest are not always related to how closely they are related to each other or how similar they are in function.