Workshop on phylogenies and community ecology (PCE)

Organised by Jérôme Chave and Olivier Hardy

Station CNRS de Moulis, France 7-9 November 2005

From left to right: Tim Barraclough, Camille Antoine, Diego Navarrete, Mailyn Gonzalez, Raphaël Pélissier, Jérôme Chave, Nicolas Mouquet, Rampal Etienne, Sandrine Pavoine, Christophe Thébaud, Olivier Hardy, Julien Eyraud, Vincent Savolainen

The topic of this meeting was "Integrating phylogenies in measures of community diversity", and it gathered experts in statistical methods, phylogenies, and community ecology. This meeting was funded by new "Groupe de Recherche: Interactions Biotiques dans les Communautes : Théories et Modeles", through INRA (funding has been kindly raised by Alain Franc from INRA Bordeaux). Day 1 saw formal presentations from the participants (20-min talks based on the research in connection with the main topic of the workshop). The workshop was otherwise organised around two working groups, that treated the following questions: 1- does phylogenetic diversity matter in making inferences about spatial patterns of diversity? 2- how does phylogenetic diversity correlate with environmental factors? 3- which clades contribute the most to variation in phylogenetic diversity?

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