NCEAS Working Groups
Phylogenies and community ecology
Project Description
There exists a long history in ecology of examining communities in terms of their taxonomic structure (e.g., species/genus ratios), with the expectation that this will shed light on both histori-cal community assembly and contemporary ecological structure. Modern phylogenies now offer far more precision in the analysis of community taxonomic structure, and an increasing number of studies are aimed at incorporating phylogenetic information into community ecology. Con-versely, studies of speciation are increasingly trying to incorporate information about the com-munity context under which lineages separated.
The time is ripe for a meeting that draws researchers together, from ecology, phylogenetics and paleobiology, who have considered these issues, but who may not otherwise interact. We thus propose an NCEAS working group focused on the question, ¿¿How can phylogenetic knowl-edge help answer community ecology questions, and vice versa?¿¿ Meetings will be structured to identify answers to this question, and present datasets and analysis tools useful for exploring new
avenues. Independent work between meetings would apply these methods, and would be reported at subsequent meetings, and in a final, edited book. We expect that such a working group
would catalyze the development of this promising field.
Principal Investigator(s)
Michael J. Donoghue, Campbell O. Webb
Project Dates
Start: October 1, 2001
End: October 1, 2002
completed
Participants
- David D. Ackerly
- Stanford University
- James H. Brown
- University of New Mexico
- Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Robert K. Colwell
- University of Connecticut
- Michael E. Dodd
- Open University
- Michael J. Donoghue
- Yale University
- Brian J. Enquist
- Arizona State University
- Elizabeth A. Hadly
- Stanford University
- Stephen Heard
- University of Iowa
- Stephen P. Hubbell
- University of Georgia
- Jonathan B. Losos
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Irby J. Lovette
- Cornell University
- Richard Mayden
- Saint Louis University
- Mark A. McPeek
- Dartmouth College
- Richard H. Ree
- University of California, Davis
- Robert E. Ricklefs
- University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Dolph Schluter
- University of British Columbia
- Helen Steers
- Horniman Museum
- Campbell O. Webb
- Yale University
- Mark Westoby
- Macquarie University
Products
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Journal Article / 2003
Integrating micro- and macroevolutionary processes in community ecology
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Journal Article / 2004
Phylogenetic overdispersion in Floridian oak communities
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Journal Article / 2002
Phylogenies and community ecology
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Presentations / 2004
Introduction to symposium on phylogenies and community ecology
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Software / 2005
Phylocom
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Presentations / 2005
Phylomatic