Phylogenies in Ecology: A Guide to Concepts and Methods (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691157689)

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 wishing to understand these methods. This book demonstrates how phylogenetic information is transforming ecology by offering fresh ways to estimate the similarities and differences among species, and by providing deeper, evolutionary-based insights on species distributions, coexistence, and niche partitioning. Marc Cadotte and Jonathan Davies examine this emerging area's explosive growth, allowing for this new body of hypotheses testing.

Cadotte and Davies systematically look at all the main areas of current ecophylogenetic methodology, testing, and inference. Each chapter of their book covers a unique topic, emphasizes key assumptions, and introduces the appropriate statistical methods and null models required for testing phylogenetically informed hypotheses. The applications presented throughout are supported and connected by examples relying on real-world data that have been analyzed using the open-source programming language, R.

Showing how phylogenetic methods are shedding light on fundamental ecological questions related to species coexistence, conservation, and global change, Phylogenies in Ecology will interest anyone who thinks that evolution might be important in their data.

Author: Marc W. Cadotte, T. Jonathan Davies
ISBN-10: 0691157685
ISBN-13: 9780691157689
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017