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5 - Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity–Area Relationships

from Part II - Diversity–Area Relationships: The Different Types and Underlying Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2021

By
Florent Mazel  and
Wilfried Thuiller
Edited by
Thomas J. Matthews ,
Kostas A. Triantis  and
Robert J. Whittaker
Thomas J. Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Kostas A. Triantis
Affiliation:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Robert J. Whittaker
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

The species–area relationship (SAR) has been documented for a wide range of organisms, ecosystems and spatial scales. In contrast, little is known about the spatial scaling of functional and phylogenetic diversity, two other important facets of biodiversity. Describing and understanding how functional and phylogenetic diversity scale with area represents a promising research programme to unravel community assembly mechanisms across spatial scales, and to predict the loss of functional and phylogenetic diversity from habitat loss. In this review, our aim is to provide (1) practical recommendations to measure functional and phylogenetic diversity and to construct functional and phylogenetic diversity–area relationships, (2) a theoretical background on how to interpret the shape of phylogenetic diversity–area relationships and (3) an overview of the empirical phylogenetic diversity–area relationships published to date. We conclude by proposing a series of recommendations for future work.

Keywords

Species–area relationshipfunctional diversity–area relationshipphylogentic diversity–area relationshipfunctional diversityphylogentic diversityspatial scalinghabitat losssampling designmodel fitting
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The Species–Area Relationship
Theory and Application
 , pp. 107 - 132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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