Phylogenetic biome niche conservatism underlies the evolution of forest paleoendemic legume trees in tropical Africa
Darío I. Ojeda, Anaïs Gorel, Gilles Dauby, Sandra Cervantes, Aaron D. Pan, Thomas Marcussen, Samuel Vanden Abeele, Arthur F. Boom, Félix Forest, Manuel de la Estrella, Olivier J. Hardy
The paper analyzes biome niche conservatism in the Berlinia clade, finding forest as the ancestral biome with no directional shifts back to forest, and no link between biome shifts and diversification rates.
bioRxiv · Jan 10, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology