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Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

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Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches

(2009) Audrey Colles et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

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Relating Traits to Diversification: A Simple Test

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Less lineages more trait variation: phylogenetically clustered plant communities are functionally more diverse

(2008) Andreas Prinzing et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary constraints on regional faunas: whom, but not how many

(2008) Adam C. Algar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dispersal failure contributes to plant losses in NW Europe

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The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

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