Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolutionCampbell O Webb
Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Bioinformatics 24:2098-100. 2008
..A range of utility functions allow community and phylogenetic data manipulation, tree and trait generation, and integration into scientific workflows. Availability: Open source at: http://phylodiversity.net/phylocom/...
Phylodiversity-dependent seedling mortality, size structure, and disease in a Bornean rain forestCampbell O Webb
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Ecology 87:S123-31. 2006
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Explosive radiation of Malpighiales supports a mid-cretaceous origin of modern tropical rain forestsCharles C Davis
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Herbarium, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 2287, USA
Am Nat 165:E36-65. 2005
..This case illustrates that dated phylogenies can provide an important new source of evidence bearing on the timing of major environmental changes, which may be especially useful when fossil evidence is limited or controversial...
Phylogenetic balance and ecological evennessCampbell O Webb
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Box 208106, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Syst Biol 51:898-907. 2002
..Further development and application of phylogeny-based methods for testing abundance-diversity relationships is needed...
Phylogenetic signal in plant pathogen-host rangeGregory S Gilbert
Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4979-83. 2007
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Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree speciesJerome Chave
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS UMR 5174, Université Paul Sabatier Bâtiment 4R3, 31062 Toulouse, France
Ecol Appl 16:2356-67. 2006
..Our unprecedented wood density data set yields consistent guidelines for estimating wood densities when species-level information is lacking and should significantly reduce error in Central and South American carbon accounting programs...
Phylogenetic dispersion of host use in a tropical insect herbivore communityGeorge D Weiblen
Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 87:S62-75. 2006
..We interpret this as evidence that a substantial fraction of tropical forest insect herbivores are clade specialists...
Exotic taxa less related to native species are more invasiveSharon Y Strauss
Section of Evolution and Ecology, 2320 Storer Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:5841-5. 2006
..Relatedness of invaders to the native biota may be one useful criterion for prioritizing management efforts of exotic species...
A likelihood framework for inferring the evolution of geographic range on phylogenetic treesRichard H Ree
Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
Evolution 59:2299-311. 2005
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A brief history of seed sizeAngela T Moles
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 5304, USA
Science 307:576-80. 2005
..Cross-species studies and evolutionary theory are consistent with this evidence that growth form and seed size evolve in a coordinated manner...
Ecology. Sizing up the shape of lifeM Scot Zens
Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Science 295:1475-6. 2002
Factors that shape seed mass evolutionAngela T Moles
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 5304, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10540-4. 2005
..However, these environmental variables had much less explanatory power than did plant traits such as seed dispersal syndrome and plant growth form...
Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communitiesNathan J B Kraft
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Am Nat 170:271-83. 2007
..Our results deepen our understanding of processes that contribute to phylogenetic community structure and provide guidance for the design and interpretation of empirical research...