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Digest: Hypothesis testing in biogeography using phylogenetic trees *
Author(s) -
Miller Elizabeth Christina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.14114
Subject(s) - biological dispersal , biology , phylogenetic tree , biogeography , colonization , evolutionary biology , null hypothesis , null model , ecology , statistics , genetics , demography , mathematics , sociology , gene , population
How can we test whether biogeographic dispersal rates coincide with geologic events? Hua and Bromham developed a model‐based approach to generate a null distribution of colonization times under constant dispersal rates, overcoming a problem related to the geometry of phylogenetic trees.