A. Mooers

Testing the phylogenetic gambit: how much functional diversity can we reliably conserve if we prioritize phylogenetic diversity?

The paper tests whether maximizing phylogenetic diversity (PD) reliably captures functional diversity (FD) across 15,000 vertebrate species, finding mixed results with an average 18% FD gain but also cases where PD sets had less FD than random selections.

Evolutionary Isolation And Phylogenetic Diversity Loss Under Random Extinction Events

The paper shows that phylogenetic diversity loss under random extinction can be predicted from isolation value loss using a non-linear transformation, with error converging to zero as tree size increases.

Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity Can Be A Poor Strategy For Conserving Functional Diversity

This paper shows that conserving phylogenetically diverse taxa does not reliably maximize functional diversity, challenging the common assumption that phylogenetic diversity (PD) is a proxy for functional diversity (FD).