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ArticlePlant diversity2024

The mid-domain effect in flowering phenology.

Yanjun Du, Rongchen Zhang, Xinran Tang, Xinyang Wang, Lingfeng Mao, Guoke Chen, Jiangshan Lai, Keping Ma

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Yanjun DuSchool of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
Rongchen ZhangHNU-ASU Joint International Tourism College, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
Xinran TangSchool of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
Xinyang WangSchool of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Lingfeng MaoCollege of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
Guoke ChenState Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
Jiangshan LaiCollege of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
Keping MaState Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.

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Abstract

The timing of flowering is an important driver of species distribution and community assembly patterns. However, we still have much to learn about the factors that shape flowering diversity (i.e., number of species flowering per period) in plant communities. One potential explanation of flowering diversity is the mid-domain effect, which states that geometric constraints on species ranges within a bounded domain (space or time) will yield a mid-domain peak in diversity regardless of ecological factors. Here, we determine whether the mid-domain effect explains peak flowering time (i.e., when most species of communities are flowering) across China. We used phenological data of 16,267 herbaceous and woody species from the provincial

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Flowering diversityFunctional biogeographyLatitudinal gradientMacroecologyMacrophenologyNull model

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