Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes?

By Sandrine Pavoine, Amandine Gasc, Michael B. Bonsall, N. Mason. 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology (2016, background): “The effects of species richness and abundance evenness can be removed by using appropriate null models (Pavoine et al., 2013), which can also ease comparisons with functional diversity, since species richness and abundance evenness may artificially exaggerate correlations between phylogenetic divers”
A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, background): “Functional diversity is not a single, non-divisible concept, but rather is composed of multiple components (Mason et al. 2005), with a large variety of functional diversity indices having been proposed to measure these components (Schleuter et al. 2010; Pavoine et al. 2013).”
Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, methodology): “2009) and lack of correlation between measures of phylogenetic dispersion and trait dispersion (Pavoine & Bonsall 2011; Srivastava et al. 2012; Pavoine et al. 2013; Swenson 2013), questioning the interpretation of assembly mechanisms using phylogenetic data.”
Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly (2017, background): “In practice, however, differences between species in terms of traits and of phylogeny often do not follow the same patterns (Swenson & Enquist 2009), even when traits possess a high phylogenetic signal (Mason & Pavoine 2013; Pavoine et al. 2013).”