Community phylogeny and spatial scale affect phylogenetic diversity metrics in a species-rich rainforest in Borneo.

ABSTRACT: Community phylogenetic analysis is an effective approach to understanding the process of community formation. The phylogenetic tree of the species pool is reconstructed in the first step, and the phylogenetic tree obtained in the second step is used to analyze phylogenetic diversity. Sythetic trees have often been used in the construction of phylogenentic trees; however, in tropical rainforests with many closely related species, synthetic trees contain many unresolved nodes, which may affect the results of phylogenetic structure analysis. Here, we constructed a phylogenetic tree using DNA barcode sequences (rbcL, matK, trnH-psbA) for 737 tree species from the rainforests of Borneo, which have a high-species diversity and many closely related species. The phylogenetic t

SUBMITTER: Okuno S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9682210 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature