Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

By Pille Gerhold, James F. Cahill Jr., M. Winter, I. Bartish, A. Prinzing. 2015

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

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Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns (2020, methodology): “(P10) The fundamental assumption that communities are at equilibrium underlies most efforts to understand community assembly (Gerhold et al., 2015).”
Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly (2017, background): “Using either trait or phylogenetic information in isolation could present various drawbacks in community and macroecology analyses (Cadotte, Albert & Walker 2013; Gerhold et al. 2015; Hortal et al. 2015).”
Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology? (2017, background): “ated through functional traits, and thus, the trait dispersion of a community is assumed to signify particular community assembly processes (262).”
A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology (2016, background): “their ecological niche, than those that are more distantly related (Connolly et al., 2011; Gerhold et al., 2015; but see Narwani et al., 2013; Purschke et al., 2013; Violle et al., 2011).”
Difficult decisions: Strategies for conservation prioritization when taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity are not spatially congruent (2018, background): “Finally, when biodiversity facets are measured at the local site scale, ecological assembly processes create species compositions nonrandomly from regional species pools, and incongruence among biodiversity facets can arise as a result of these processes (Gerhold et al., 2015; Mayfield and Levine, 2”