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

The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub-disciplines, particularly conservation, community ecology and macroecology, all recognize the value of evolutionary relationships but the resulting development of phylogenetic approaches has led to a proliferation of phylogenetic diversity metrics. The use of many metrics across the sub-disciplines hampers potential meta-analyses, syntheses, and generalizations of existing results. Further, there is no guide for selecting the appropriate metric for a given question, and different metrics are frequently used to address similar questions. To improve the choice, application, and…

• FE
  Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras
• MR
  Medical Research Council

  Award: MR/R02491X/1
• FP
  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  Award: SFRH/BPD/74423/2010
• SF
  Seventh Framework Programme

  Award: 281422