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PHYLOGENETIC ECOLOGY AT WORLD SCALE, A NEW FUSION BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Author(s) -
Westoby Mark
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[163:peawsa]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - ecology , evolutionary ecology , population ecology , phylogenetic tree , range (aeronautics) , biology , population , geography , demography , sociology , biochemistry , materials science , gene , composite material , host (biology)
One fusion between ecology and evolution is well established, under the title of population biology. The years 2006–2020 will see a new fusion, likely to prove equally creative. Inputs from ecology to this second fusion will be worldwide data sets for ecological traits across many species. Inputs from evolution will be phylogenetic trees with well‐resolved topology and with increasingly tight geological dates for each branch point. There will be unification of two aims: first to explain the spread of different ways of making a living, across the range of present‐day species; and second, to narrate the evolutionary history that has led up to present‐day ecology.