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SUBMITTER: O'Dwyer JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4500224 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Dwyer James P JP Kembel Steven W SW Sharpton Thomas J TJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150623 27
Identifying the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that determine biological diversity is a central question in ecology. In microbial ecology, phylogenetic diversity is an increasingly common and relevant means of quantifying community diversity, particularly given the challenges in defining unambiguous species units from environmental sequence data. We explore patterns of phylogenetic diversity across multiple bacterial communities drawn from different habitats and compare these data to evo ...[more]