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Mean family age of angiosperm tree communities and its climatic correlates along elevational and latitudinal gradients in eastern North America |
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| Authors: | Hong Qian Jian Zhang Bradford A. Hawkins |
| Affiliation: | 1. Research and Collections Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, USA;2. Tiantong National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station & School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA |
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| Keywords: | cold tolerance community assembly environmental filtering niche conservatism temperate forests thermal gradients tropical conservatism hypothesis |