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Biota turnovers from phylogenies

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Phylogenetic data infer temporal clustering of immigration and re-diversification of Australian lizards and snakes, suggesting that climatic and geological changes may have precipitated re-assemblies of this vertebrate group.

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Fig. 1: Immigration and re-diversification of Australian squamate lineages are more temporally clustered than expected by chance.

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Quental, T.B. Biota turnovers from phylogenies. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 1796–1797 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0363-8

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