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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.
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