Authors
Marc W Cadotte, Marta Carboni, Xingfeng Si, Shinichi Tatsumi
Publication date
2019/9
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
107
Issue
5
Pages
2065-2077
Description
- It is now commonplace in community ecology to assess patterns of phylogenetic or functional diversity in order to inform our understanding of the assembly mechanisms that structure communities. While both phylogenetic and functional approaches have been used in conceptually similar ways, it is not clear if they both in fact reveal similar community diversity patterns or support similar inferences. We review studies that use both measures to determine the degree to which they support congruent patterns and inferences about communities.
- We performed a literature review with 188 analyses from 79 published papers that compared some facet of phylogenetic (PD) and functional diversity (FD) in community ecology. These studies generally report four main cases in which phylogenetic and functional information are used together in community analyses, to determine if: (a) there were phylogenetic signals in the …
Scholar articles
MW Cadotte, M Carboni, X Si, S Tatsumi - Journal of Ecology, 2019