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tax.distinctiveness

Taxonomic distinctiveness sensu Vane-Wright or May

Description

Taxic diversity: Vane-Wright et al., 1991 and May 1990 which accounts for polytomies by counting the number of branches descending from each node that lies on the path from a spp tip to the root (not just counting the number of nodes).

Usage

tax.distinctiveness(tree, type = c("Vane-Wright", "May"))

Arguments

`tree`	an object of class phylo
`type`	specify "Vane-Wright" or "May"

Author(s)

Karen Magnuson-Ford, Will Cornwell, Arne Mooers, Mark Vellend

References

Vane-Wright, R.I., Humphries, C.J. and Williams, P.H. (1991). What to protect? - Systematics and the agony of choice. Biological Conservation, 55, 235-254.

May, R.M. (1990). Taxonomy as destiny. Nature, 347, 129-130.

Mark Vellend, William K. Cornwell, Karen Magnuson-Ford, and Arne Mooers. In press. Measuring phylogenetic biodiversity In: Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment. Edited by Anne Magurran and Brian McGill.

picante

Integrating Phylogenies and Ecology

v1.8.2

GPL-2

Authors

Steven W. Kembel <steve.kembel@gmail.com>, David D. Ackerly <dackerly@berkeley.edu>, Simon P. Blomberg <s.blomberg1@uq.edu.au>, Will K. Cornwell <cornwell@zoology.ubc.ca>, Peter D. Cowan <pdc@berkeley.edu>, Matthew R. Helmus <mrhelmus@wisc.edu>, Helene Morlon <morlon.helene@gmail.com>, Campbell O. Webb <cwebb@oeb.harvard.edu>

Initial release

2020-06-08