PhyloMeasures: a package for computing phylogenetic biodiversity measures and their statistical moments

C Tsirogiannis, B Sandel - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present PhyloMeasures, a new software package including both a C++ and R version,
that provides very fast computation of popular phylogenetic diversity measures …

Phylogenetic dispersion and diversity in regional assemblages of seed plants in China

H Qian, T Deng, Y Jin, L Mao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Species assemble into communities through ecological and evolutionary processes.
Phylogenetic niche conservatism—the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological …

Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands

H Qian, RE Ricklefs, W Thuiller - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Alpine floras (plants in the vegetation belts above the climatic treelines) experience cold
climates, particularly in temperate mountains during winter, but they are generally species …

Patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure of pteridophytes in China

H Qian, M Kessler, T Deng, Y Jin - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Previous studies have found strikingly different geographical patterns of phylogenetic
diversity of gymnosperms and angiosperms, which have been suggested to result, in part …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised biological integrity assessment by eDNA biomonitoring of multi-trophic aquatic taxa

J Yang, L Zhang, Y Mu, J Wang, H Yu, X Zhang - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
The biological integrity of global freshwater ecosystems is threatened by ever-increasing
environmental stressors due to increased human activities, such as land-use change …

Phylogenetic structure of regional angiosperm assemblages across latitudinal and climatic gradients in North America

H Qian, B Sandel - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Phylogenetic structure of regional species assemblages is determined by
environmental conditions and biogeographical history. Typically, assemblages are thought …

[HTML][HTML] Intercontinental comparison of phylogenetic relatedness in introduced plants at the transition from naturalization to invasion: A case study on the floras of …

H Qian - Plant Diversity, 2023 - Elsevier
Invasive species may pose significant threats to biodiversity and ecosystem structure and
functioning. The number of introduced species that have become invasive is substantial and …

Phylogenetic diversity statistics for all clades in a phylogeny

S Grover, A Markin, TK Anderson, O Eulenstein - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The classic quantitative measure of phylogenetic diversity (PD) has been used to address
problems in conservation biology, microbial ecology, and evolutionary biology. PD is the …

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm trees in local forest communities along latitudinal and elevational gradients in eastern North America

H Qian, J Zhang, B Sandel, Y Jin - Ecography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Latitudinal and elevational gradients both represent thermal gradients. Assessing the
consistency of the relationships between phylogenetic structure and climate between …

Geophysical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to drive phylogenetic dispersion in angiosperm assemblages along the longest elevational gradient in the …

H Qian, B Sandel, T Deng… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Ecologists have embraced phylogenetic measures of assemblage structure, in large part for
the promise of better mechanistic inferences. However, phylogenetic structure is driven by a …