Relationships between climate and phylogenetic community structure of fossil pollen assemblages are not constant during the last deglaciation

Kavya Pradhan, Diego Nieto-Lugilde, and Matthew C. Fitzpatrick (2021). Relationships between climate and phylogenetic community structure of fossil pollen assemblages are not constant during the last deglaciation. Plos ONE 16(7): e0240957
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240957

In this analysis we estimated phylogenetic community structure (PCS) from fossil pollen data and phylogenetic trees. Interstingly, we show that PCS has had an unstable relationship with climate during the last 22000 years.