Dating the emergence of the divaricate habit in the New Zealand flora

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Dating the emergence of the divaricate habit in the New Zealand flora

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The New Zealand divaricates are a collection of shrubs, short trees and tree juveniles whose crowns are made of tough interlaced twigs branching at wide angles and bearing small leaves. These species represent c. 13% of the native woody flora, a proportion not seen in any other region of the world. Since the late 19ᵗʰ century, ecologists and botanists have sought to understand the of drivers this unique case of convergent evolution. Debate has been dominated by two main competing hypotheses i...

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Doctoral

Date created

2021

Creator

Maurin, Kévin Jean Louis

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14390

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Botany / Divaricate plants / Divaricating shrubs / Phylogenetics / Convergent evolution / Plant structural defences / Moa / Plants -- New Zealand -- Phylogeny -- Molecular aspects / Plants -- Evolution -- New Zealand / Moas -- Food -- New Zealand / Paleobotany -- Pliocene -- Climatic factors -- New Zealand / Plant anatomy -- New Zealand / Convergence (Biology) / Evolutionary genetics -- New Zealand / Developmental biology -- New Zealand / Evolution

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