A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology.

ABSTRACT: The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub-disciplines, particularly conservation, community ecology and macroecology, all recognize the value of evolutionary relationships but the resulting development of phylogenetic approaches has led to a proliferation of phylogenetic diversity metrics. The use of many metrics across the sub-disciplines hampers potential meta-analyses, syntheses, and generalizations of existing results. Further, there is no guide for selecting the appropriate metric for a given question, and different metrics are frequently used to address similar questions. To improve the choice, application, and interpretation of phylo-diversity metrics, we organize existing metrics by expanding

SUBMITTER: Tucker CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096690 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature