Does phylogeny matter? Assessing the impact of phylogenetic information in ecological meta-analysis

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 627-636

  Chamberlain, Scott A ^a   Hovick, Stephen M ^a   Dibble, Christopher J ^a   Rasmussen, Nick L ^a   Van Allen, Benjamin G ^a   Maitner, Brian S ^a   Ahern, Jeffrey R ^a   Bell Dereske, Lukas P ^a   Roy, Christopher L ^a   Meza Lopez, Maria ^a   Carrillo, Juli ^a   Siemann, Evan ^a   Lajeunesse, Marc J ^b   Whitney, Kenneth D ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Colless' yule; Fixed effects; Maximum likelihood; Model fit; Phylogenetic non independence; Phylogenetic signal; Quantitative review; Random effects

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84860693904     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01776.x     Document Type: Review

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