The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

Aim In an era of global habitat loss and species extinction, conservation biology is
increasingly becoming a science of triage. A key approach has been the designation of …

Native biodiversity decline and non-native species spread are major features of the
Anthropocene. Both processes can drive biotic homogenization by reducing trait and …

Background Integrated, efficient, and global prioritization approaches are necessary to
manage the ongoing loss of species and their associated function." Evolutionary …

Phylogenetic diversity (PD) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among
species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on the factors that …

Ecosystem stability in variable environments depends on the diversity of form and function of
the constituent species. Species phenotypes and ecologies are the product of evolution, and …

Phylogenetic information is increasingly being used to understand the assembly of
biological communities and ecological processes. However, commonly used metrics of …

Aim Urbanization broadly affects the phylogenetic and functional diversity of natural
communities through a variety of processes including habitat loss and the introduction of …

Relict species have always beguiled evolutionary biologists and biogeographers, who often
view them as fascinating 'living fossils' or remnants of old times. Consequently, they are …

Many hypotheses attempt to explain parasite–host associations, but rarely are they
examined together in a single community. For hosts, key traits are the proportion of infected …