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Previous studies have characterized the overall influence of climate on spruce distribution and trait variation. However, most of the previous studies of these topics in spruce have focused on one or a few species, and little is known about the relationship between trait variation and species turnover for a wide array of spruce species at large scales, and even less has been clarified about relative roles of climate and phylogenetic background in driving morphometric trait variation. Using data from field surveys in the spruce forests across China, we showed that the climatically driven replacement of the spruces in question could be well indicated by the between-species variation in morphometric traits that carry weak phylogenetic signals but strong climatic signals and demonstrate a narrower temperature amplitude but wider ranges on the moisture gradient.

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Using data from field surveys in the spruce forests across China, we showed that the climatically driven replacement of the spruces in question could be well indicated by the between-species variation in morphometric traits that carry weak phylogenetic signals but strong climatic signals and demonstrate a narrower temperature amplitude but wider ranges on the moisture gradient.

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This page is a summary of: Morphometric traits capture the climatically driven species turnover of 10 spruce taxa across C hina, Ecology and Evolution, January 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1971.
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