Committee members: الشمري, ثقيل ساير; النعيمي, يحيى حمد
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-57501-9
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Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
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Fiqh and Usul Al Fiqh
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Qatar University (Qatar)
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2017
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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.