Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot

Kress, W. John; Erickson, David L.; Swenson, Nathan G.; Thompson, Jill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4370-2593; Uriarte, Maria; Zimmerman, Jess K.. 2010 Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot. PLoS One, 5 (11), e15409. 10.1371/journal.pone.0015409

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Abstract/Summary

Background Species number, functional traits, and phylogenetic history all contribute to characterizing the biological diversity in plant communities. The phylogenetic component of diversity has been particularly difficult to quantify in species-rich tropical tree assemblages. The compilation of previously published (and often incomplete) data on evolutionary relationships of species into a composite phylogeny of the taxa in a forest, through such programs as Phylomatic, has proven useful in building community phylogenies although often of limited resolution. Recently, DNA barcodes have been used to construct a robust community phylogeny for nearly 300 tree species in a forest dynamics plot in Panama using a supermatrix method. In that study sequence data from three barcode loci were used to generate a well-resolved species-level phylogeny.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1371/journal.pone.0015409
Programmes:	CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Biodiversity > BD Topic 2 - Ecological Processes in the Environment > BD - 2.1 - Interactions ... structure ecosystems and their functioning
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Watt
ISSN:	1932-6203
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Additional Keywords:	community ecology, DNA barcodes, forest dynamics, phylogeny, tropical trees
NORA Subject Terms:	Botany Biology and Microbiology Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	17 Feb 2011 09:01 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13444

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1371/journal.pone.0015409

Programmes:

CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Biodiversity > BD Topic 2 - Ecological Processes in the Environment > BD - 2.1 - Interactions ... structure ecosystems and their functioning

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Watt

ISSN:

1932-6203

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

PLoS One is an Open Access journal, to access full text, please click on the OFFICIAL URL link