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On the risks of using dendrograms to measure functional diversity and multidimensional spaces to measure phylogenetic diversity: a comment on Sobral et al . (2016)
Author(s) -
Villéger Sébastien,
Maire Eva,
Leprieur Fabien
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ecology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.852
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1461-0248
pISSN - 1461-023X
DOI - 10.1111/ele.12750
Subject(s) - biodiversity , phylogenetic diversity , ecology , diversity (politics) , biology , phylogenetic tree , functional diversity , measure (data warehouse) , species diversity , species richness , beta diversity , computer science , sociology , biochemistry , database , anthropology , gene
Sobral et al . (Ecology Letters, 19, 2016, 1091) reported that the loss of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity due to species extinctions was not compensated by exotic species introductions. Here, we demonstrate that the reported changes in biodiversity were underestimated because of methodological pitfalls.