Université de Fribourg

Benefits from living together? Clades whose species use similar habitats may persist as a result of eco-evolutionary feedbacks

Prinzing, Andreas ; Ozinga, Wim A. ; Brändle, Martin ; Courty, Pierre-Emmanuel ; Hennion, Françoise ; Labandeira, Conrad ; Parisod, Christian ; Pihain, Mickael ; Bartish, Igor V.

In: New Phytologist, 2017, vol. 213, no. 1, p. 66–82

Recent decades have seen declines of entire plant clades while other clades persist despite changing environments. We suggest that one reason why some clades persist is that species within these clades use similar habitats, because such similarity may increase the degree of co-occurrence of species within clades. Traditionally, co- occurrence among clade members has been suggested to be...