Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

MW Cadotte, R Dinnage, D Tilman - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
phylogenetically diverse assemblages result in biomass productivity that is temporally more
stable… how species and phylogenetic diversity explain biomass production stability. There …

Plant phylogenetic diversity stabilizes large‐scale ecosystem productivity

GG Mazzochini, CR Fonseca, GC Costa… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… (species richness and phylogenetic diversity) on ecosystem stability at larger extents and …
830,000 km 2 ) South American tropical dryland ecosystem. The Caatinga plays a major role in …

Phylogenetic diversity stabilizes community biomass

Z Pu, P Daya, J Tan, L Jiang - Journal of Plant Ecology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… The relationship between biodiversity and ecological stability … increasing phylogenetic
diversity promoted temporal stability … U-shaped relationship with phylogenetic diversity, driven by …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic and functional diversity could be better indicators of macroinvertebrate community stability

Y Liu, M Zhang, W Peng, X Qu, Y Zhang, L Du, N Wu - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
… types of diversity (species diversity, SD; phylogenetic diversity, PD; and functional diversity,
… to provide a greater understanding of the effects of biodiversity on river ecosystem stability. …

Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re‐examination of 16 grassland biodiversity …

P Venail, K Gross, TH Oakley, A Narwani… - Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
diversity influences ecosystem functioning. Ecologists have recently expanded this field to
look at whether phylogenetic diversity … lengths on a molecular phylogeny leading to all species …

Mixture of tree species enhances stability of the soil bacterial community through phylogenetic diversity

X Zhang, Y Huang, S Liu, S Fu, A Ming… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… that phylogenetic diversity is the main controlling factor of the variation in stability across sites
and … (ie niche differentiation) is better at explaining the variation in ecosystem stability than …

Deconstructing the relationships between phylogenetic diversity and ecology: a case study on ecosystem functioning

TJ Davies, MC Urban, B Rayfield, MW Cadotte… - Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… suggests that ecosystem function and stability is generally … phylogenetic diversity and
ecosystem function. First, we fit the regression of phylogenetic diversity against the ecological

Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

M Winter, V Devictor, O Schweiger - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
… To date, there is little evidence that phylogenetic diversity … justification of using phylogenetic
diversity in conservation and … of phylogenetic diversity as a proxy for functional diversity or …

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversitystability relationship

D Craven, N Eisenhauer, WD Pearse… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
… the effects of phylogenetic diversity on ecosystem stability are … diversity and phylogenetic
diversity to ecosystem stability to represent biological drivers that influence ecosystem stability, …

Further re-analyses looking for effects of phylogenetic diversity on community biomass and stability

BJ Cardinale, P Venail, K Gross, TH Oakley, A Narwani… - Functional Ecology, 2015 - JSTOR
… (a) Cadotte’s structural equation model (SEM) suggested that phylogenetic diversity (PD)
was the sole predictor of community biomass as well as the variation in biomass through time. …