Bird clades with less complex appendicular skeletons tend to have higher species richness.
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SUBMITTER: Brinkworth A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10509246 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
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Bird clades with less complex appendicular skeletons tend to have higher species richness.
Brinkworth Andrew A Green Emily E Li Yimeng Y Oyston Jack J Ruta Marcello M Wills Matthew A MA
Nature communications 20230919 1
Species richness is strikingly uneven across taxonomic groups at all hierarchical levels, but the reasons for this heterogeneity are poorly understood. It is well established that morphological diversity (disparity) is decoupled from taxonomic diversity, both between clades and across geological time. Morphological complexity has been much less studied, but there is theory linking complexity with differential diversity across groups. Here we devise an index of complexity from the differentiation ...[more]
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