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Data Accessibility: Species trait data is included in Tables S9 and S10 in the Supporting Information. The phylogenetic data is available within the R package ‘PhyloOrchard’ (O’Meara et al., 2012).
Author Contributions: M.L.P. analyzed the data and both authors designed research and wrote the paper.