Unifying species diversity, phylogenetic diversity, functional diversity, and related similarity and differentiation measures through Hill numbers

A Chao, CH Chiu, L Jost - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Hill numbers or the effective number of species are increasingly used to quantify species
diversity of an assemblage. Hill numbers were recently extended to phylogenetic diversity …

The world‐wide 'fast–slow'plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

PB Reich - Journal of ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The leaf economics spectrum (LES) provides a useful framework for examining species
strategies as shaped by their evolutionary history. However, that spectrum, as originally …

Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

P Gerhold, JF Cahill Jr, M Winter, IV Bartish… - Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The subdiscipline of 'community phylogenetics' is rapidly growing and influencing thinking
regarding community assembly. In particular, phylogenetic dispersion of co‐occurring …

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

W Jetz, J Cavender-Bares, R Pavlick, D Schimel… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
The ability to view Earth's vegetation from space is a hallmark of the Space Age. Yet
decades of satellite measurements have provided relatively little insight into the immense …

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

S Díaz, A Purvis, JHC Cornelissen… - Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
People depend on benefits provided by ecological systems. Understanding how these
ecosystem services–and the ecosystem properties underpinning them–respond to drivers of …

[图书][B] The phytochemical landscape: linking trophic interactions and nutrient dynamics

MD Hunter - 2016 - degruyter.com
The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions,
including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions …

Phylogenetic beta diversity, similarity, and differentiation measures based on Hill numbers

CH Chiu, L Jost, A Chao - Ecological Monographs, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Until now, decomposition of abundance‐sensitive gamma (regional) phylogenetic diversity
measures into alpha and beta (within‐and between‐group) components has been based on …

Advancing biodiversity–ecosystem functioning science using high-density tree-based experiments over functional diversity gradients

CM Tobner, A Paquette, PB Reich, D Gravel, C Messier - Oecologia, 2014 - Springer
Increasing concern about loss of biodiversity and its effects on ecosystem functioning has
triggered a series of manipulative experiments worldwide, which have demonstrated a …

Rarefaction and extrapolation of phylogenetic diversity

A Chao, CH Chiu, TC Hsieh, T Davis… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional species diversity measures do not make distinctions among species. Faith's
phylogenetic diversity (PD), which is defined as the sum of the branch lengths of a …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenetic diversity measures and their decomposition: a framework based on Hill numbers

A Chao, CH Chiu, L Jost - Biodiversity Conservation and …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
Conservation biologists need robust, intuitive mathematical tools to quantify and assess
patterns and changes in biodiversity. Here we review some commonly used abundance …