Committee members: الشمري, ثقيل ساير; النعيمي, يحيى حمد
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-57501-9
M.A.
Fiqh and Usul Al Fiqh
Qatar University (Qatar)
2017
This study investigated how habitat specialization affects the evolution and ecology of flowering plants. Specifically, a phylogenetic framework was used to investigate how trait evolution, lineage diversification, and biogeography of the western American flora are affected by two forms of substrate endemism: (1) edaphic specialization onto serpentine soils, and (2) host specialization of non-photosynthetic, holoparasitic Orobanchaceae.