Phylogenies in Ecology : A Guide to Concepts and Methods / T. Jonathan Davies, Marc W. Cadotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cadotte, Marc W., author.

Davies, T. Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phylogeny.

Ecology.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic methods in ecology, and it serves as a primer to working ecologists and students of ecology wishing to understand these methods. This book demonstrates how phylogenetic information is transforming ecology by offering fresh ways to estimate the similarities and differences among species, and by providing deeper, evolutionary-based insights on species distributions, coexistence, and niche partitioning. Marc Cadotte and Jonathan Davies examine this emerging area's explosive growth, allowing for this new body of hypotheses testing.Cadotte and Davies systematically look at all the main areas of current ecophylogenetic methodology, testing, and inference. Each chapter of their book covers a unique topic, emphasizes key assumptions, and introduces the appropriate statistical methods and null models required for testing phylogenetically informed hypotheses. The applications presented throughout are supported and connected by examples relying on real-world data that have been analyzed using the open-source programming language, R.Showing how phylogenetic methods are shedding light on fundamental ecological questions related to species coexistence, conservation, and global change, Phylogenies in Ecology will interest anyone who thinks that evolution might be important in their data.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. An Entangled Bank: Evolutionary Relationships and Ecological Patterns

Chapter 2. Building and Using Phylogenies

Chapter 3. Phylogenetic Patterns within Communities

Chapter 4. Randomizations, Null Distributions, and Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 5. Detecting Patterns of Trait Evolution

Chapter 6. The Geography of Speciation and Character Displacement

Chapter 7. Phylogenetic Diversity across Space and Time

Chapter 8. Speciation, Extinction, and the Distribution of Phylogenetic Diversity

Chapter 9. Using Phylogenetic Information to Make Better Conservation Decisions

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Where To From Here?

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400881192

1400881196

OCLC:

952572315