… diversity of Californian plant communities using phylogenetic and functional analyses. Our
communities … ) and beta (among-plot) sources of variation in diversity. We sampled 93 such …

… In addition, we conducted field sampling in seven communities in central Mexico and
Baja California, providing measurements of 429 species from 225 genera and 74 families. …

… , and use them to explore diversity patterns in a typical California annual grassland … plant
community, we may develop differing predictions of herbivore diversity if 99% of the community …

… community diversity at smaller spatial scales, whether it is accompanied by patterns in functional
and phylogenetic diversity … Patterns of phylogenetic diversity in California make it clear, …

… within ecological communities (ie, phylogenetic diversity), but clear … of the phylogenetic
diversity of grassland plant communities. … in the California flora (16, 25, 26). We calculated yearly …

… phylogeny, we calculated phylogenetic diversity (PD) for each experimental plot as the total
phylogenetic branch lengths connecting only the community … root of the larger phylogeny [18]…

… Last, we expected that community functional and phylogenetic diversity would … the phylogenetic
diversity of each community sample, we constructed a phylogeny for our communities in …

… We use a random model of community … in phylogenetic diversity – the total phylogenetic
branch‐length separating a set of species – with increasing area and the decay in phylogenetic …

… (43) reported lower phylogenetic diversity (despite higher species diversity) in the western
… I will focus here on Ackerly (46), as his study concerned a single region, the California …

… to Mediterranean climates in California chaparral habitat. These … habitats evolved before
California chaparral was colonized, … plant niches, we identified five studies of plant communities …