Plant families exhibit unique geographic trends in C₄ richness and cover in Australia

• Samantha E. M. Munroe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: samantha.munroe@adelaide.edu.au

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-1028

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• Francesca A. McInerney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Physical Sciences and the Sprigg Geobiology Centre, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Greg R. Guerin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Jake W. Andrae,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Physical Sciences and the Sprigg Geobiology Centre, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Nina Welti,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9966-5915

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• Stefan Caddy-Retalic,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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• Rachel Atkins,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Physical Sciences and the Sprigg Geobiology Centre, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Ben Sparrow

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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