How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

By T. Münkemüller, S. Lavergne, Bruno Bzeznik, Stéphane Dray, Thibaut Jombart, K. Schiffers, Wilfried Thuiller. 2012

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Subfields: Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Citations in the corpus

• phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal (2016, neutral): “Figure 2 gives an example of phylogenetic correlograms with their confi-dence envelope.”
• Sexual dimorphism of heads and abdomens: Different approaches to 'being large' in female and male lizards (2013, methodology): “In a comparative study of different phylogenetic tests, Pagel’s λ was found to be a reliable method under the assumption of a Brownian motion model of trait evolution (Münkemüller et al., 2012).”
• Ontogenetic shifts in plant ecological strategies (2018, methodology): “We then examined a phylogenetic signal in LDMC and log‐transformed SLA and LA separately for adults and juveniles, using the Blomberg’s K test with 100,000 randomisations (Blomberg, Garland, & Ives, 2003; Münkemüller et al., 2012) in the “picante” package (Kembel et al., 2010).”
• Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “Values of Pagel’s k close to zero indicate phylogenetic independence, whereas values approaching 1 indicate an increasing similarity among closely related taxa (M€unkem€uller et al. 2012).”
• Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and the Evolution of Multivariate Phenotypes (2019, background): “Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for related species to be more phenotypically similar than species selected at random from a phylogeny (Blomberg et al. 2003, Munkemuller et al. 2012).”
• Niche differentiation and expansion of plant species are associated with mycorrhizal symbiosis (2018, methodology): “We used phylogenetic least squares models (PGLS, Grafen, 1989) to account for the lack of phylogenetic independence between plant species due to shared evolutionary history (Münkemüller et al., 2012; Prinzing, Durka, Klotz, & Brandl, 2001).”