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Quantifying phylogenetic beta diversity: distinguishing between 'true' turnover of lineages and phylogenetic diversity gradients. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The evolutionary dissimilarity between communities (phylogenetic beta diversity PBD) has been increasingly explored by ecologists and biogeographers to assess the relative roles of ecological and evolutionary processes in structuring natural communities.
Fabien Leprieur +5 more
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Phylogenetic diversity and biodiversity indices on phylogenetic networks [PDF]
Mathematical Biosciences, 2018 In biodiversity conservation it is often necessary to prioritize the species to conserve. Existing approaches to prioritization, e.g. the Fair Proportion Index and the Shapley Value, are based on phylogenetic trees and rank species according to their ...
Fischer, Mareike, Wicke, Kristina
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The phylogenetic diversity of metagenomes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Phylogenetic diversity--patterns of phylogenetic relatedness among organisms in ecological communities--provides important insights into the mechanisms underlying community assembly.
Steven W Kembel +3 more
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Plant Diversity, 2023 Species diversity of angiosperms (flowering plants) varies greatly among regions. Geographic patterns of variation in species diversity are shaped by the interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes.
Hong Qian, Jian Zhang, Meichen Jiang
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Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 An ongoing conservation question is if we can maintain functional diversity by optimizing for preservation of phylogenetic diversity. Here, Mazel et al.
Florent Mazel +10 more
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Phylogenetic Diversity and the Greedy Algorithm [PDF]
Systematic Biology, 2005 Given a phylogenetic tree with leaves labeled by a collection of species, and with weighted edges, the "phylogenetic diversity" of any subset of the species is the sum of the edge weights of the minimal subtree connecting the species. This measure is relevant in biodiversity conservation where one may wish to compare different subsets of species ...
Mike A Steel
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Phylogenetic Resolution and Quantifying the Phylogenetic Diversity and Dispersion of Communities
PLoS ONE, 2009 Conservation biologists and community ecologists have increasingly begun to quantify the phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic dispersion in species assemblages. In some instances, the phylogenetic trees used for such analyses are fully bifurcating, but in many cases the phylogenies being used contain unresolved nodes (i.e. polytomies).
Nathan G Swenson
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The robustness of phylogenetic diversity indices to extinctions. [PDF]
J Math Biol, 2022 Abstract Phylogenetic diversity indices provide a formal way to apportion evolutionary history amongst living species. Understanding the properties of these measures is key to determining their applicability in conservation biology settings.
Manson K.
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Quantifying the difference between phylogenetic diversity and diversity indices. [PDF]
J Math BiolAbstractPhylogenetic diversity is a popular measure for quantifying the biodiversity of a collection Y of species, while phylogenetic diversity indices provide a way to apportion phylogenetic diversity to individual species. Typically, for some specific diversity index, the phylogenetic diversity of Y is not equal to the sum of the diversity indices of
Bordewich M, Semple C.
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Environmental determinants of phylogenetic diversity in vernal pool habitats [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionPhylogenetic diversity offers critical insights into the ecological dynamics shaping species composition and ecosystem function, thereby informing conservation strategies.
Brandon Hendrickson
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