Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

By Marc W. Cadotte, Russell Dinnage, David Tilman. 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, background): “This result highlights the importance of long term data in phylogenetic ecology (see also Willis et al. 2008, Cadotte et al. 2012, Norden et al. 2012), in providing novel insights into the signature of evolutionary history in temporal shifts in communities.”
Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities (2012, background): “Combining long-term and demographic data in phylogenetic studies is therefore a critical step for developing a clear understanding of the processes driving community assembly (see also Cadotte et al. 2012, Cavender-Bares and Reich 2012).”
Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems: Biogeographic Origins, Plant Traits, and Implications for Management in the Era of Global Change (2016, background): “Studies of diversity and ecosystem function have emphasized the importance of functional diversity as a mechanism contributing to enhanced productivity and resilience (Cadotte et al. 2012).”
Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities (2015, methodology): “In this study, we showed that while PDss is strongly correlated with SR (see also Forest et al., 2007; Cadotte et al., 2012), communities can vary greatly in their deviation from expected PD given SR, as measured by ses.”
Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies (2015, background): “…diversity like genetic and trait variation can 93 influence the functioning of ecosystems, and begun to ask whether certain measures of 94 diversity are better predictors of ecosystem functioning than others (Diaz & Cabido 2001, 95 Petchey & Gaston 2006, Cadotte et al. 2008, Cadotte et al. 2012).”
Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity (2015, background): “Furthermore, well-resolved phylogenies may be essential to determine whether the relationships between specific traits and ecological functions are the result of other evolutionarily correlated (but unmeasured) traits (Cadotte et al. 2012, Dı́az et al. 2013, Thompson et al. 2015).”