Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic
methods in ecology, and it serves as a primer to working ecologists and students of ecology …

Life‐history theory posits that trade‐offs between demographic rates constrain the range of
viable life‐history strategies. For coexisting tropical tree species, the best established …

Understanding the factors that influence biodiversity in urban areas is important for informing
management efforts aimed at enhancing the ecosystem services in urban settings and …

Forest dynamics plots, which now span longitudes, latitudes, and habitat types across the
globe, offer unparalleled insights into the ecological and evolutionary processes that …

An increasingly popular practice in community ecology is to use the evolutionary distance
among interacting species as a proxy for their overall functional similarity. 2. At the core of …

Host‐specialized pathogens are credited with the maintenance of tropical forest diversity
under the Janzen–Connell hypothesis. Yet, in diverse forests, selection may favor …

Spatiotemporal analyses of plant communities suggest that pathogens contribute to the
maintenance of local forest diversity. However, such analyses cannot identify the …

Analyses of the phylogenetic relatedness of plant communities in urban areas have great
potential to inform future diversity planning in expanding or new urban areas. The influences …

Aims Conversion of natural mixed forests into monoculture plantations results in a loss of
biodiversity, and consequently leads to serious ecological problems (eg soil acidification …

Community phylogenetics combines ideas from community ecology and evolutionary
biology, using species phylogeny to explore the processes underlying ecological community …