Climates and clades: biased methods, biased results

Thuiller et al. analyzed the consequences of anticipated climate change on plant, bird, and mammal phylogenetic diversity (PD) across Europe. They concluded that species loss will not be clade specific across the Tree of Life, and that there will not be an overall decline in PD across the whole of Europe. We applaud their attempt to integrate phylogenetic knowledge into scenarios of future extinction but their analyses raise a series of concerns. We focus here on their analyses of plants.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  arXiv: Populations and Evolution

• Publication date

  2014-06-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  arXiv 1406.5211
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

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