phylogenetic diversity

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Knowledge graph centered on phylogenetic diversity with 71 nodes and 145 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational, Crested Butte, Colorado East River Valley.

Definition

A measure of the evolutionary history represented in an ecological community, calculated as the sum of branch lengths connecting species in a phylogenetic tree

Related Terms (7)

PDphylogenetic signalphylogenetic clusteringmean pairwise distanceMPDphylogenetic structurebiodiversity

Publications (6)

article

Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

2025American Journal of Botany

thesis

Evolution of social position and structure – a multilevel selection perspective

2023

article

Effects of an introduced mustard, Thlaspi arvense, on soil fungal communities in subalpine meadows

2022Fungal Ecology

article

Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient

2021Ecosphere

student_paper

The value of dihydrogen monoxide to a jumping mouse: habitat use and preference in <i>Zapus princeps</i>.

2012

article

Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

2008PNAS

phylogenetic diversity

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Definition

Related Terms (7)

Publications (6)

Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

Evolution of social position and structure – a multilevel selection perspective

Effects of an introduced mustard, Thlaspi arvense, on soil fungal communities in subalpine meadows

Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient

The value of dihydrogen monoxide to a jumping mouse: habitat use and preference in <i>Zapus princeps</i>.

Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

Related Concepts (10)

phylogenetic signal

Extinction risk

elevational gradients

Greenhouse gas emissions

Ecosystem diversity

Irrigated acreage

Alpine habitat

Carbon dioxide absorption

Organic matter decomposition

Invasive plants

Frequently Associated Species

rare plants

Erigeron

Bacteria

higher plants

vascular plants

small mammals

Boechera stricta

Alliaria petiolata

Callospermophilus lateralis

Senecio