Effects of taxon sampling and tree reconstruction methods on phylodiversity metrics.

ABSTRACT: The amount and patterns of phylodiversity in a community are often used to draw inferences about the local and historical factors affecting community assembly and can be used to prioritize communities and locations for conservation. Because measures of phylodiversity are based on the topology and branch lengths of phylogenetic trees, which are affected by the number and diversity of taxa in the tree, these analyses may be sensitive to changes in taxon sampling and tree reconstruction methods.To investigate the effects of taxon sampling and tree reconstruction methods on measures of phylodiversity, we investigated the community phylogenetics of the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station (Florida), which is home to over 600 species of vascular plants. We studied the effects of (a) the number of t

SUBMITTER: Jantzen JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6745870 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature