Understanding the concepts of community phylogenetics
| dc.contributor.author | Ndiribe, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Salamin, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guisan, A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-05T15:11:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-05T15:11:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Community phylogenetics is an emerging field of research that has made important contributions to understanding community assembly. The rapid development of this field can be attributed to the merging of phylogenetics and community ecology research to provide improved clarity on the processes that govern community structure and composition. Question: What are the major challenges that impede the sound interpretation of the patterns and processes of phylogenetic community assembly? Methods: We use four scenarios to illustrate explicitly how the phylogenetic structure of communities can exist in stable or transient phases, based on the different combinations of phylogenetic relationships and phenotypic traits among co-occurring species. We discuss these phases by implicating a two-way process in the assembly and disintegration of the given ecological community. Conclusions: This paper synthesizes the major concepts of community phylogenetics using habitat filtering and competition processes to elucidate how the understanding of phylogenetic community structure is currently hindered by the dynamics of community assembly and disassembly. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Faculty of Biology and Medicine and the Herbette Foundation, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Swiss National Science Foundation to A.G. (SNF Grant 31003A-125145, BIOASSEMBLE Project, and the EU FP6-ECOCHANGE Project) and to N.S (CRS113-125240). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ndiribe, C., Salamin, N. and Guisan, A., 2013. Understanding the concepts of community phylogenetics. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 15(8), pp.853-868. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5254 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Evolutionary Ecology Research | en_US |
| dc.subject | community assembly, community phylogenetics, niche conservatism, trait evolution. | en_US |
| dc.title | Understanding the concepts of community phylogenetics | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |