Influence of tree shape and evolutionary time-scale on phylogenetic diversity metrics.

ABSTRACT: During the last decades, describing, analysing and understanding the phylogenetic structure of species assemblages has been a central theme in both community ecology and macro-ecology. Among the wide variety of phylogenetic structure metrics, three have been predominant in the literature: Faith's phylogenetic diversity (PD_Faith), which represents the sum of the branch lengths of the phylogenetic tree linking all species of a particular assemblage, the mean pairwise distance between all species in an assemblage (MPD) and the pairwise distance between the closest relatives in an assemblage (MNTD). Comparisons between studies using one or several of these metrics are difficult because there has been no comprehensive evaluation of the phylogenetic properties each metric captures. In

SUBMITTER: Mazel F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5049687 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature