Directional biases in phylogenetic structure quantification: a Mediterranean case study.

ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen an increasing effort to incorporate phylogenetic hypotheses to the study of community assembly processes. The incorporation of such evolutionary information has been eased by the emergence of specialized software for the automatic estimation of partially resolved supertrees based on published phylogenies. Despite this growing interest in the use of phylogenies in ecological research, very few studies have attempted to quantify the potential biases related to the use of partially resolved phylogenies and to branch length accuracy, and no work has examined how tree shape may affect inference of community phylogenetic metrics. In this study, using a large plant community and elevational dataset, we tested the influence of phylogenetic resolution and branch length inform

SUBMITTER: Molina-Venegas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4112217 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature