Phylogenies in Ecology
eBook - PDF

Phylogenies in Ecology

A Guide to Concepts and Methods

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Phylogenies in Ecology

A Guide to Concepts and Methods

About this book

Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic methods in ecology, and it serves as a primer to working ecologists and students of ecology wishing to understand these methods. This book demonstrates how phylogenetic information is transforming ecology by offering fresh ways to estimate the similarities and differences among species, and by providing deeper, evolutionary-based insights on species distributions, coexistence, and niche partitioning. Marc Cadotte and Jonathan Davies examine this emerging area's explosive growth, allowing for this new body of hypotheses testing.

Cadotte and Davies systematically look at all the main areas of current ecophylogenetic methodology, testing, and inference. Each chapter of their book covers a unique topic, emphasizes key assumptions, and introduces the appropriate statistical methods and null models required for testing phylogenetically informed hypotheses. The applications presented throughout are supported and connected by examples relying on real-world data that have been analyzed using the open-source programming language, R.

Showing how phylogenetic methods are shedding light on fundamental ecological questions related to species coexistence, conservation, and global change, Phylogenies in Ecology will interest anyone who thinks that evolution might be important in their data.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Preface
  7. CHAPTER 1 An Entangled Bank: Evolutionary Relationships and Ecological Patterns
  8. CHAPTER 2 Building and Using Phylogenies
  9. CHAPTER 3 Phylogenetic Patterns within Communities: Inferring Mechanisms of Ecological Assembly Using Phylogenetic Distances
  10. CHAPTER 4 Randomizations, Null Distributions, and Hypothesis Testing
  11. CHAPTER 5 Detecting Patterns of Trait Evolution
  12. CHAPTER 6 The Geography of Speciation and Character Displacement
  13. CHAPTER 7 Phylogenetic Diversity across Space and Time
  14. CHAPTER 8 Speciation, Extinction, and the Distribution of Phylogenetic Diversity
  15. CHAPTER 9 Using Phylogenetic Information to Make Better Conservation Decisions
  16. CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: Where To From Here?
  17. Glossary
  18. References
  19. Index