The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our
understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines, particularly conservation …

Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

Disentangling the biogeographic patterns of rare and abundant microbes is essential in
order to understand the generation and maintenance of microbial diversity with respect to …

We present PhyloMeasures, a new software package including both a C++ and R version,
that provides very fast computation of popular phylogenetic diversity measures …

Competitive exclusion and habitat filtering influence community assembly, but ecologists
and evolutionary biologists have not reached consensus on how to quantify patterns that …

While an increasing number of indices for estimating the functional trait diversity of biological
communities are being proposed, there is a growing demand by ecologists to clarify their …

Quantifying species distributions using species distribution models (SDMs) has emerged as
a central method in modern biogeography. These empirical models link species occurrence …

While morphological traits are often associated with multiple functions, it remains unclear
how evolution balances the selective effects of different functions. Birds' beaks function not …

Aim To examine variation in the phylogenetic diversity (PD) of tree communities across
geographical and environmental gradients in Amazonia. Location Two hundred and eighty …

Gloger's rule is usually interpreted as predicting darker coloured animals in warmer and
more humid/vegetated regions. The relative importance of temperature and rainfall or …