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The Forest, the Trees, and the Phylo-diversity Jungle

View ORCID ProfileFlorent Mazel, Caroline M. Tucker, Marc W. Cadotte, Silvia B. Carvalho, T. Jonathan Davies, Susanne A. Fritz, Rich Grenyer, Matthew R. Helmus, Arne Ø. Mooers, Sandrine Pavoine, Oliver Purschke, Dan. F. Rosauer, Marten Winter
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/063461
Florent Mazel
1Univ. Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, F-38000 Grenoble.
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Caroline M. Tucker
2Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
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Marc W. Cadotte
3Biological Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4.
4Stake Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation of Guangdong, Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen University, Xin Gang Xi Lu No. 135, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, PR China
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Silvia B. Carvalho
5CIBIO/ InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, R. Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
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T. Jonathan Davies
6Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue du Docteur-Penfield, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1.
7African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, APK Campus, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Susanne A. Fritz
8Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
9Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Straβe 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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Rich Grenyer
10School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY United Kingdom.
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Matthew R. Helmus
11Department of Ecological Sciences - Animal Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.
12Center for Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
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Arne Ø. Mooers
13Department of Biology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6.
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Sandrine Pavoine
14Centre of Ecology and Conservation Sciences (UMR 7204 CESCO), Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, Paris, France.
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Oliver Purschke
15Biodiversity Synthesis Research Group, German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, DE-04103 Leipzig, Germany
16Department of Computer Science, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1, DE-06120 Halle(Saale), Germany
17Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, DE-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
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Dan. F. Rosauer
18Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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Marten Winter
15Biodiversity Synthesis Research Group, German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, DE-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Abstract

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.

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The Forest, the Trees, and the Phylo-diversity Jungle
Florent Mazel, Caroline M. Tucker, Marc W. Cadotte, Silvia B. Carvalho, T. Jonathan Davies, Susanne A. Fritz, Rich Grenyer, Matthew R. Helmus, Arne Ø. Mooers, Sandrine Pavoine, Oliver Purschke, Dan. F. Rosauer, Marten Winter
bioRxiv 063461; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/063461
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The Forest, the Trees, and the Phylo-diversity Jungle
Florent Mazel, Caroline M. Tucker, Marc W. Cadotte, Silvia B. Carvalho, T. Jonathan Davies, Susanne A. Fritz, Rich Grenyer, Matthew R. Helmus, Arne Ø. Mooers, Sandrine Pavoine, Oliver Purschke, Dan. F. Rosauer, Marten Winter
bioRxiv 063461; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/063461

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