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

pez: phylogenetics for the environmental sciences

(2015) William D. Pearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A new dynamic null model for phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Alex L. Pigot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic turnover patterns consistent with niche conservatism in montane plant species

(2015) Lanna S. Jin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Unifying Species Diversity, Phylogenetic Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Related Similarity and Differentiation Measures Through Hill Numbers

(2014) Anne Chao et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Balancing phylogenetic diversity and species numbers in conservation prioritization, using a case study of threatened species in New Zealand

(2014) Joseph R. Bennett et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic trees do not reliably predict feature diversity

(2014) Steven Kelly et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Functional and phylogenetic similarity among communities

(2014) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Unifying measures of biodiversity: understanding when richness and phylogenetic diversity should be congruent

(2013) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Phylogenetic beta diversity, similarity, and differentiation measures based on Hill numbers

(2013) Chun-Huo Chiu et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Niche conservatism constrains Australian honeyeater assemblages in stressful environments

(2013) E. T. Miller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae

(2013) Anita Narwani et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes?

(2013) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Global Patterns of Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered Amphibians and Mammals

(2013) Kamran Safi et al.   PLoS One

Experimental evidence that evolutionarily diverse assemblages result in higher productivity

(2013) M. W. Cadotte   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nurturing the use of evolutionary diversity in nature conservation

(2013) Dan F. Rosauer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

New biodiversity measure that includes consistent interspecific and intraspecific components

(2013) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

(2012) Jun Chen et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives

(2012) Nicolas Mouquet et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Incorporating Geographical and Evolutionary Rarity into Conservation Prioritization

(2012) CAROLINE M. TUCKER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

What's on the horizon for macroecology?

(2012) Jan Beck et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

(2012) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global patterns of amphibian phylogenetic diversity

(2012) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

A metric of biodiversity that integrates abundance, phylogeny, and function

(2012) Samuel M. Scheiner   OIKOS

Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

(2012) Marten Winter et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenetically Poor Plant Communities Receive More Alien Species, Which More Easily Coexist with Natives

(2011) Pille Gerhold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Phylogenetically diverse grasslands are associated with pairwise interspecific processes that increase biomass

(2011) John Connolly et al.   ECOLOGY

Measuring diversity: the importance of species similarity

(2011) Tom Leinster et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

(2011) Cyrille Violle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Consequences of climate change on the tree of life in Europe

(2011) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   NATURE

The shape of mammalian phylogeny: patterns, processes and scales

(2011) A. Purvis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals

(2011) T. J. Davies et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much

(2011) A. S. L. Rodrigues et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic Beta Diversity Metrics, Trait Evolution and Inferring the Functional Beta Diversity of Communities

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Metrics of Community Similarity

(2010) Anthony R. Ives et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Decomposing phylogenetic entropy into  ,   and   components

(2010) M. A. Mouchet et al.   Biology Letters

Rarest of the rare: advances in combining evolutionary distinctiveness and scarcity to inform conservation at biogeographical scales

(2010) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Communities contain closely related species during ecosystem disturbance

(2010) Matthew R. Helmus et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Resemblance in phylogenetic diversity among ecological assemblages

(2010) David A. Nipperess et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylogenetic diversity measures based on Hill numbers

(2010) A. Chao et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A New Phylogenetic Diversity Measure Generalizing the Shannon Index and Its Application to Phyllostomid Bats

(2009) Benjamin Allen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evolution of climate niches in European mammals?

(2009) C. F. Dormann et al.   Biology Letters

Hierarchical partitioning of evolutionary and ecological patterns in the organization of phylogenetically-structured species assemblages: application to rockfish (genus:Sebastes) in the Southern California Bight

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history

(2009) DAN ROSAUER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal

(2009) D. Ackerly   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

(2009) M. Winter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Extinction

(2008) Andy Purvis   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic diversity: a quantitative framework for measurement of priority and achievement in biodiversity conservation

(2008) GARY M. BARKER   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Interpreting and estimating measures of community phylogenetic structuring

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A comparative test of phylogenetic diversity indices

(2008) Oliver Schweiger et al.   OECOLOGIA

Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

(2008) J. A. Bryant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE