Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

JJ Wiens, DD Ackerly, AP Allen, BL Anacker… - Ecology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The diversity of life is ultimately generated by evolution, and much attention has focused on
the rapid evolution of ecological traits. Yet, the tendency for many ecological traits to instead …

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

J Cavender‐Bares, KH Kozak, PVA Fine… - Ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things)

LJ Revell - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Phylogenetic comparative methods comprise the general endeavor of using an estimated
phylogenetic tree (or set of trees) to make secondary inferences: about trait evolution …

phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal

F Keck, F Rimet, A Bouchez, A Franc - Ecology and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for closely related species to display similar trait values
as a consequence of their phylogenetic proximity. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are …

[PDF][PDF] phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

LJ Revell - Methods in ecology and evolution, 2012 - drive.google.com
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APPLICATION phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things) …

[BOG][B] Functional and phylogenetic ecology in R

NG Swenson - 2014 - Springer
The hypotheses that have been derived to explain the distribution, abundance, dynamics,
and diversity of species are typically tested using data matrices containing the names and …

A Generalized K Statistic for Estimating Phylogenetic Signal from Shape and Other High-Dimensional Multivariate Data

DC Adams - Systematic biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for closely related species to display similar trait values
due to their common ancestry. Several methods have been developed for quantifying …

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

T Münkemüller, S Lavergne, B Bzeznik… - Methods in Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic signal is the tendency of related species to resemble each other more than
species drawn at random from the same tree. This pattern is of considerable interest in a …

Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success

J Divíšek, M Chytrý, B Beckage, NJ Gotelli… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The search for traits associated with plant invasiveness has yielded contradictory results, in
part because most previous studies have failed to recognize that different traits are important …

A primer on phylogenetic generalised least squares

MRE Symonds, SP Blomberg - Modern phylogenetic comparative methods …, 2014 - Springer
Phylogenetic generalised least squares (PGLS) is one of the most commonly employed
phylogenetic comparative methods. The technique, a modification of generalised least …