What is it about?
The oaks (genus Quercus) are an important model clade for integrating ecology and evolution, given their widespread ecological importance, remarkable diversity, and growing data resources. They reveal that the evolutionary past shapes natural communities and the functions of ecosystems that humans depend on.
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Why is it important?
The review considers how the oaks came to dominate North America and the factors that allow long-lived species to persist given major environmental changes that occur within the lifespan of an individual.
Perspectives
Studying a single highly diverse and ecologically important lineage from a range of perspectives that span the subdisciplines of physiological ecology, community ecology, microevolution and macrovolution allows us to ask questions about how life processes at different temporal and biological scales interact -- literally from genes to ecosystems -- and from local communities to whole continents.
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
University of Minnesota System
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This page is a summary of: Diversification, adaptation, and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus
), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution, New Phytologist, October 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15450.
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