Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity Can Be a Poor Strategy for Conserving Functional Diversity

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

(2017) Nicolas Gross et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Deconstructing the relationships between phylogenetic diversity and ecology: a case study on ecosystem functioning

(2016) T. Jonathan Davies et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

(2016) Francesco de Bello et al.   OECOLOGIA

Model Adequacy and the Macroevolution of Angiosperm Functional Traits

(2015) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The unimodal relationship between species’ functional traits and habitat gradients provides a family of indices supporting the conservation of functional trait diversity

(2015) Daniel P. Faith   PLANT ECOLOGY

Machine Learning Biogeographic Processes from Biotic Patterns: A New Trait-Dependent Dispersal and Diversification Model with Model Choice By Simulation-Trained Discriminant Analysis

(2015) Jeet Sukumaran et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

mvmorph: anrpackage for fitting multivariate evolutionary models to morphometric data

(2015) Julien Clavel et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

(2014) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Phylogenetic trees do not reliably predict feature diversity

(2014) Steven Kelly et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Novel Bayesian Method for Inferring and Interpreting the Dynamics of Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Comparative Data

(2014) Josef C. Uyeda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Trees, branches and (square) roots: why evolutionary relatedness is not linearly related to functional distance

(2014) Andrew D. Letten et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Rarefaction and extrapolation of phylogenetic diversity

(2014) Anne Chao et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Nurturing the use of evolutionary diversity in nature conservation

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

Is there room for punctuated equilibrium in macroevolution?

(2013) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

SURFACE: detecting convergent evolution from comparative data by fitting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models with stepwise Akaike Information Criterion

(2013) Travis Ingram et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

ape 3.0: New tools for distance-based phylogenetics and evolutionary analysis in R

(2012) Andrei-Alin Popescu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Convergent Evolution within an Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes

(2012) Moritz Muschick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trait vs. phylogenetic diversity as predictors of competition and community composition in herbivorous marine amphipods

(2012) R. J. Best et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does phylogeny matter? Assessing the impact of phylogenetic information in ecological meta-analysis

(2012) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

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

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A NOVEL COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SHIFTS IN THE RATE OF CHARACTER EVOLUTION ON TREES

(2011) Jonathan M. Eastman et al.   EVOLUTION

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

(2008) M. W. Cadotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Selecting Taxa to Save or Sequence: Desirable Criteria and a Greedy Solution

(2008) Magnus Bordewich et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Is conservation triage just smart decision making?

(2008) Madeleine C. Bottrill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION