… In a companion paper, we develop a multi-scale methodology (McGlinn et al. 2018).
Second, we have only focused on taxonomic diversity, although interest in other measures of …

… c, d, The relative likelihood of the different pathways out of the evergreen and freezing-unexposed
state and into the deciduous and freezing-exposed state (c), and out of the large-…

Parenchyma is an important tissue in secondary xylem of seed plants, with functions ranging
from storage to defence and with effects on the physical and mechanical properties of wood…

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

While human activities are known to elicit rapid turnover in species composition through time,
the properties of the species that increase or decrease their spatial occupancy underlying …

… The areas in panel (D) could be contiguous (eg, geopolitical units). This figure is from … DJ
McGlinn thanks A. Hurlburt for postdoctoral funding. Support to MR Willig was provided in part …

… For each comparison, we compute the Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistic D (bottom left plot)
and the sample size weighting to identify the next most distinctive clade. In this second round, …

… For pairwise indices, a is the number of sites where both species co-occur, c and b are
numbers of sites occupied uniquely by each species respectively, d is the number of sites where …

… The light-green polygons represent the difference (ie, treatment effect) for each set of curves
which is plotted in panels d–f. By taking the difference again (light-blue shaded area and …

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