TY - JOUR T1 - The Forest, the Trees, and the Phylo-diversity Jungle JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/063461 SP - 063461 AU - Florent Mazel AU - Caroline M. Tucker AU - Marc W. Cadotte AU - Silvia B. Carvalho AU - T. Jonathan Davies AU - Susanne A. Fritz AU - Rich Grenyer AU - Matthew R. Helmus AU - Arne Ø. Mooers AU - Sandrine Pavoine AU - Oliver Purschke AU - Dan. F. Rosauer AU - Marten Winter Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/15/063461.abstract N2 - 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. ER -