On the risks of using dendrograms to measure functional diversity and multidimensional spaces to measure phylogenetic diversity: a comment on Sobral et al . (2016)

Sébastien Villéger (1, 2) , Eva Maire (1, 3, 2) , Fabien Leprieur (2)

1 UM - Université de Montpellier
2 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
3 IRD [France-Sud] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Mots clés: functional diversity; functional space; cophenetic distance; dendrogram; Euclidean space; phyloge-netic diversity

Domaines: Ecosystèmes; Biodiversité et Ecologie; Milieux et Changements globaux

Sébastien Villéger, Eva Maire, Fabien Leprieur. On the risks of using dendrograms to measure functional diversity and multidimensional spaces to measure phylogenetic diversity: a comment on Sobral et al . (2016). Ecology Letters, 2017, 20 (4), pp.554--557. ⟨10.1111/ele.12750⟩. ⟨hal-01928114⟩