Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Entangled Bank: Evolutionary Relationships and Ecological Patterns
1.1. Systematics and the Diversity of Life
1.2. Origins
1.3. "Correcting" Ecological Comparisons
1.4. Emergence of Ecophylogenetics
1.5. Goal of This Book
ch. 2 Building and Using Phylogenies
2.1. Handling Phylogenies in R
2.2. Building Trees
2.3. Finding and Adapting Available Trees
2.4. Tree Scaling and Rate Smoothing
2.5. Conclusion
ch. 3 Phylogenetic Patterns within Communities: Inferring Mechanisms of Ecological Assembly Using Phylogenetic Distances
3.1. Phylogenetic Distances and Community Assembly
3.2. Calculating Community Diversity Metrics
3.3. Note about Phylodiversity Measures
Moving from the Causes to the Consequences of Diversity
3.4. Conclusion
ch. 4 Randomizations, Null Distributions, and Hypothesis Testing
4.1. Brief History of Randomization Tests in Ecology (or the Simberloffian Shift in Ecology)
4.2. How to Build Null Communities
4.3. Randomizing Phylogenetic Data
4.4. Taking the Pool Seriously
4.5. Conclusion
ch. 5 Detecting Patterns of Trait Evolution
5.1. Phylogenetic Signal
5.2. Alternative Models of Trait Evolution
5.3. Reconstructing Ancestral States
5.4. Conclusion
ch. 6 Geography of Speciation and Character Displacement
6.1. Character Divergence and Geographic Overlap
6.2. Community-Wide Trait Dispersion
6.3. Conclusion
ch. 7 Phylogenetic Diversity across Space and Time
7.1. Phylobetadiversity: Measuring Phylogenetic Turnover
7.2. Influence of Spatial Scale on Phylogenetic Patterns
7.3. Conclusion
ch. 8 Speciation, Extinction, and the Distribution of Phylogenetic Diversity
8.1. Conservation of the Tree of Life
8.2. Macroevolution: Diversification
8.3. Conclusion
ch. 9 Using Phylogenetic Information to Make Better Conservation Decisions
9.1. Why Preserve Evolutionary History?
9.2. Quantifying Evolutionary History
9.3. Prioritizing Species Based on Evolutionary Distinctiveness
9.4. Prioritizing Hotspots of Evolutionary Distinctiveness
9.5. Applying Conservation Metrics
ch. 10 Conclusion: Where To From Here?
10.1. Predicting Ecology from Evolutionary Patterns
10.2. Combining Trait and Phylogenetic Information
10.3. Phylogenetic Insights into a Changing World
10.4. Where To Go from Here?
10.5. Heralding the Ecology-Evolution Synthesis?.