ArticleiScience2021
Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America.
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- Geographic Range Size Predicts Butterfly Species' Tolerance to Heavy Metals More Than Evolutionary History With Toxic Larval Diets.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
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- Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Innovation in the Breeding of Common Bean Through a Combined Approach ofFrontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America.iScience · 2021Article
- Species traits affect phenological responses to climate change in a butterfly community.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Broad-scale, quantitative assessments of insect biodiversity and the factors shaping it remain particularly poorly explored. Here we undertook a spatial phylogenetic analysis of North American butterflies to test whether climate stability and temperature gradients have shaped their diversity and endemism. We also performed the first quantitative comparisons of spatial phylogenetic patterns between butterflies and flowering plants. We expected concordance between the two groups based on shared historical environmental drivers and presumed strong butterfly-host plant specializations. We instead found that biodiversity patterns in butterflies are strikingly different from flowering plants, especially warm deserts. In particular, butterflies show different patterns of phylogenetic clustering compared with flowering plants, suggesting differences in habitat conservation between the two groups. These results suggest that shared biogeographic histories and trophic associations do not necessarily assure similar diversity outcomes. The work has applied value in conservation planning, documenting warm deserts as a North American butterfly biodiversity hotspot.
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