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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 536-541Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2005.09.006
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Although the environmental correlates of plant species richness have long received attention, research into the genesis of this diversity is in its infancy. The recent development of molecular dating methods and the inference of robust phylogenetic hypotheses have made it possible to investigate this problem. I use the Cape flora as a model to show that much modern diversity could be the result of recruiting diverse lineages over the entire Cenozoic into this flora, followed by in situ diversification (thus increasing species richness) of at least some of these lineages over a long period in an environmentally heterogeneous area.
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