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dc.contributor.authorCOOPER, NATALIE
dc.contributor.authorRODRIGUEZ, JESUS
dc.contributor.authorPURVIS, ANDY
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-10T11:42:30Z
dc.date.available2012-09-10T11:42:30Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.submitted2008en
dc.identifier.citationCooper, N, Rodriguez, J, Purvis, A, A common tendency for phylogenetic overdispersion in mammalian assemblages, Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 275, 2008en
dc.identifier.otherY
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/64936
dc.descriptionPUBLISHEDen
dc.description.abstractCompetition has long been proposed as an important force in structuring mammalian communities. Although early work recognised that competition has a phylogenetic dimension, only with recent increases in the availability of phylogenies have true phylogenetic investigations of mammalian community structure become possible. We test whether the phylogenetic structure of 142 assemblages from three mammalian clades (New World monkeys, North American ground squirrels and Australasian possums) shows the imprint of competition. The full set of assemblages display a highly significant tendency for members to be more distantly-related than expected by chance (phylogenetic overdispersion). The overdispersion is also significant within two of the clades (monkeys and squirrels) separately. This is the first demonstration of widespread overdispersion in mammal assemblages and implies an important role for either competition between close relatives where traits are conserved, habitat filtering where distant relatives share convergent traits, or both.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe Royal Societyen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences;275
dc.rightsYen
dc.subjectNRIen
dc.subjectnet relatedness indexen
dc.subjectNTIen
dc.subjectnearest taxon indexen
dc.subjectpossumen
dc.subjectsquirrelen
dc.subjectmonkeyen
dc.subjectcommunity phylogeneticsen
dc.titleA common tendency for phylogenetic overdispersion in mammalian assemblagesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.type.supercollectionscholarly_publicationsen
dc.type.supercollectionrefereed_publicationsen
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurlhttp://people.tcd.ie/ncooper
dc.identifier.rssinternalid80448
dc.identifier.rssurihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0420


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