Ecologists and conservation biologists are increasingly focusing on quantifying the phylogenetic component of biodiversity in order to inform basic and applied research. A major obstacle of this approach in tropical ecosystems has been the difficulty of generating high-quality phylogenetic trees for the vast numbers of species in these systems. Phylogenetic trees inferred from DNA barcodes hold the potential to overcome this obstacle. Here, I present a methodological framework for analyzing the phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity of ecological communities using a phylogenetic tree. The analytical approach is presented using the freely available and widely used software platform "R". © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Swenson, N. G. (2012). Phylogenetic analyses of ecological communities using DNA barcode data. Methods in Molecular Biology, 858, 409–419. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_20
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