RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Forest, the Trees, and the Phylo-diversity Jungle
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 063461
DO 10.1101/063461
A1 Florent Mazel
A1 Caroline M. Tucker
A1 Marc W. Cadotte
A1 Silvia B. Carvalho
A1 T. Jonathan Davies
A1 Susanne A. Fritz
A1 Rich Grenyer
A1 Matthew R. Helmus
A1 Arne Ø. Mooers
A1 Sandrine Pavoine
A1 Oliver Purschke
A1 Dan. F. Rosauer
A1 Marten Winter
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/15/063461.abstract
AB The joint use of phylogenetic trees and ecological data has proven useful for many aspects of ecology. However, there are a multitude of phylo-diversity metrics with complex interdependencies and mathematical redundancies (the so-called ‘jungle’ of metrics). Several recentpapers have been trying to ‘map’ this jungle but appear at a first glance to contradict each other. We suggest that these contradictory results are in fact complementary and reflect two approaches to understand diversity metrics: the first focuses on general mathematical properties,the second focuses on assessing metric performance in relation to particular questions.In this manuscript, we discuss the complementarity of the two approaches and in particular how recent papers fit into this categorisation.