Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly

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Authors

DE BELLO Francesco ŠMILAUER Petr DINIZ-FILHO Jose Alexandre F CARMONA Carlos Perez LOSOSOVÁ Zdeňka HERBEN Tomáš GÖTZENBERGER Lars

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12735
Field Botany
Keywords Biodiversity; coexistence; ecosystem function; environmental filtering; limiting similarity; multivariate analyses; null models; neutral theory; phylogenetic corrections
Description Functional traits and phylogeny offer different, but ideally complementary, information about ecological differences between species, an essential step to uncover biodiversity assembly mechanisms and their feedbacks to ecosystem functions. However, traits and phylogeny are often related due to underlying trait evolution. Consequently, when combined, their overlapping information can be overemphasized, hindering their complementarity. It is therefore desirable to decouple their unique and overlapping contributions.
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