Drivers of Phenotypic Variation Along a Late Pleistocene Range Expansion Route

Understanding how interindividual variation within populations drives the evolution of biodiversity patterns is a major challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology. By reshuffling species distribution in space and time, Pleistocene climatic oscillations shaped the structure of biodiversity. While the genetic legacy left by these processes has been widely investigated, their effects on phenotypic diversity remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigated whether Pleistocene range expansion affected the geographic patterns of phenotypic variation in the Tyrrhenian tree frog Hyla sarda.

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  2025

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  Journal of Biogeography

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  2025-08-21

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  DOI 10.1111/jbi.70044
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