Phylogenetic trees do not reliably predict feature diversity

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Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies (2015, background): “…on genetic 581 differentiation (e.g., phylogenetic diversity), caution would be needed when inferring 582 ecosystem functioning because there may be functionally important trait differences among 583 species that are not simply explained in full by phylogenetic relatedness (Kelly et al. 2014).”
Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity (2014, background): “…can be largely decoupled from rates of nucleotide substitution in gene sequences (Janecka et al., 2012) and empirical analyses indicate that phylogenetic diversity does not capture the most diverse sets of biological features, especially among more distantly related lineages (Kelly et al., 2014).”