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Phylogenetic Ecology: A History, Critique, and Remodeling / Edition 1
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Phylogenetic Ecology: A History, Critique, and Remodeling / Edition 1
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Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field’s power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecologists are now investigating whether phylogenetic diversity is a better measure of ecosystem health than more traditional metrics like species diversity, whether it can predict the future structure and function of communities and ecosystems, and whether conservationists might prioritize it when formulating conservation plans. In
, Nathan G. Swenson synthesizes this nascent field’s major conceptual, methodological, and empirical developments to provide students and practicing ecologists with a foundational overview. Along the way, he highlights those realms of phylogenetic ecology that will likely increase in relevancesuch as the burgeoning subfield of phylogenomicsand shows how ecologists might lean on these new perspectives to inform their research programs.