The Forest, the Trees, and the Phylo-diversity Jungle

Autor: Matthew R. Helmus, Arne Ø. Mooers, Florent Mazel, Rich Grenyer, Dan F. Rosauer, Caroline M. Tucker, Susanne A. Fritz, Sílvia B. Carvalho, Oliver Purschke, Marten Winter, T. Jonathan Davies, Sandrine Pavoine, Marc W. Cadotte
Rok vydání: 2016
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DOI: 10.1101/063461
Popis: The joint use of phylogenetic trees and ecological data has proven useful for many aspects of ecology. However, there are a multitude of phylo-diversity metrics with complex interdependencies and mathematical redundancies (the so-called ‘jungle’ of metrics). Several recentpapers have been trying to ‘map’ this jungle but appear at a first glance to contradict each other. We suggest that these contradictory results are in fact complementary and reflect two approaches to understand diversity metrics: the first focuses on general mathematical properties,the second focuses on assessing metric performance in relation to particular questions.In this manuscript, we discuss the complementarity of the two approaches and in particular how recent papers fit into this categorisation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE