Recent accelerated diversification in rosids occurred outside the tropics

There is mixed evidence for how temperature affects diversification rates. Here, authors use a supermatrix of nearly 20,000 rosid species, comprising almost a quarter of flowering plants, to show that tropical groups are older and speciated twice as slowly as their counterparts from cooler climates.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miao Sun, Ryan A. Folk, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Pamela S. Soltis, Zhiduan Chen, Douglas E. Soltis, Robert P. Guralnick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17116-5