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SUBMITTER: Mazel F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056549 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180723 1
In the face of the biodiversity crisis, it is argued that we should prioritize species in order to capture high functional diversity (FD). Because species traits often reflect shared evolutionary history, many researchers have assumed that maximizing phylogenetic diversity (PD) should indirectly capture FD, a hypothesis that we name the "phylogenetic gambit". Here, we empirically test this gambit using data on ecologically relevant traits from >15,000 vertebrate species. Specifically, we estimat ...[more]