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Description
Biodiversity is determined by species gain (through colonization and speciation) and loss (by extinction), yet we do not understand how these processes are influenced by the composition of regional species assemblages. The phenomenal growth of DNA databases provides a new way of investigating the ecological and evolutionary processes shaping biodiversity. To make this possible, we will develop new analytical methods for combining DNA sequences from hundreds of co-existing species to reveal general patterns in colonization, endemism, extinction and invasion. This will be the first large-scale analysis to use DNA to consider how emergent properties of species assemblages determine their biodiversity.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/01/08 → 31/12/11 |
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