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Taxonomic turnover in terrestrial and aquatic diatom communities: integration of macroecological, morphological, phylogenetic-evolutionary and ecophysiological approaches
Code
3G053307
Duration
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • General biology
    • Plant biology
Keywords
phylogeography biogeography macro-ecology metacommunities micro-organism
 
Project description
 

This project aims to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between historical-evolutionary and ecological mechanisms and observed patterns in endemism, latitudinal diversity gradients and regional species turnover in terrestrial and lacustrine diatom floras. To this end, we (1) develop a global taxonomic consistent diatom dataset at the species level and (2) study the phylogenetic distance between model taxa.