bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/454330; this version posted October 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 RESEARCH ARTICLE 2 Short Title: Marx et al.—Sawtooth Community Phylogenetics 3 4 Increasing phylogenetic stochasticity at high elevations on summits across a 5 remote North American wilderness 6 7 Hannah E. Marx1,2,3,4, Melissa Richards1, Grahm M. Johnson1, David C. Tank1,2 8 9 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Dr. MS 3051, Moscow, 10 ID 83844-3051, USA 11 2Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Dr. 12 MS 3051, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA 13 3Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 14 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA 15 4Author for correspondence: Hannah E. Marx,
[email protected], Department of Ecology and 16 Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA 17 18 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/454330; this version posted October 26, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 19 ABSTRACT 20 PREMISE OF THE STUDY: At the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology, 21 community phylogenetics can provide insights into overarching biodiversity patterns, 22 particularly in remote and understudied ecosystems.