Nature Communications (May 2022)

Tempo and drivers of plant diversification in the European mountain system

  • Jan Smyčka,
  • Cristina Roquet,
  • Martí Boleda,
  • Adriana Alberti,
  • Frédéric Boyer,
  • Rolland Douzet,
  • Christophe Perrier,
  • Maxime Rome,
  • Jean-Gabriel Valay,
  • France Denoeud,
  • Kristýna Šemberová,
  • Niklaus E. Zimmermann,
  • Wilfried Thuiller,
  • Patrick Wincker,
  • Inger G. Alsos,
  • Eric Coissac,
  • the PhyloAlps consortium,
  • Sébastien Lavergne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30394-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, the authors use full-plastome phylogenomics and multiclade comparative models to reconstruct the tempo and drivers of six European Alpine angiosperm lineages before and during the Pleistocene. They find that geographic divergence and bedrock shifts drive speciation events, while diversification rates remained steady.