How do lizard niches conserve, diverge or converge? Further exploration of saurian evolutionary ecology

How do lizard niches conserve, diverge or converge? Further exploration of saurian evolutionary ecology

Abstract Background Environmental conditions on Earth are repeated in non-random patterns that often coincide with species from different regions and time periods having consistent combinations of morphological, physiological and behavioral traits. Observation of repeated trait combinations among sp...

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Main Authors: Nicolás Pelegrin, Kirk O. Winemiller, Laurie J. Vitt, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, Eric R. Pianka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
Adaptive divergence
Evolutionary convergence
Functional group
Periodic table of niches
Phylogenetic niche conservatism
Sauria
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01877-8

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01877-8

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