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1 November 2003 QUANTIFYING PHYLOGENETICALLY STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION
Yves Desdevises, Pierre Legendre, Lamia Azouzi, Serge Morand
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Abstract

Comparative analysis methods control for the variation linked to phylogeny before attempting to correlate the remaining variation of a trait to present-day conditions (i.e., ecology and/or environment). A portion of the phylogenetic variation of the trait may be related to ecology, however; this portion is called “phylogenetic niche conservatism.” We propose a method of variation partitioning that allows users to quantify this portion of the variation, called the “phylogenetically structured environmental variation.” The new method is applied to published data to study, in a phylogenetic framework, the link between body mass and population density in 79 species of mammals. The results suggest that an important part of the variation of mammal body mass is related to the common influence of phylogeny and population density.

Yves Desdevises, Pierre Legendre, Lamia Azouzi, and Serge Morand "QUANTIFYING PHYLOGENETICALLY STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION," Evolution 57(11), 2647-2652, (1 November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1554/02-695
Received: 22 November 2002; Accepted: 22 May 2003; Published: 1 November 2003
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KEYWORDS
comparative analysis
phylogenetic correction
phylogenetic niche conservatism
phylogenetically structured environmental variation
variation partitioning
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