title: On the risks of using dendrograms to measure functional diversity and multidimensional spaces to measure phylogenetic diversity: a comment on Sobral et al. (2016).
abstract: Sobral et al. (Ecology Letters, 19, 2016, 1091) reported that the loss of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity due to species extinctions was not compensated by exotic species introductions. Here, we demonstrate that the reported changes in biodiversity were underestimated because of methodological pitfalls.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Biodiversité Marine et ses Usages (MARBEC), UMR 9190 CNRS-IRD-UM-IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, CC 093, F-34095, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Villéger
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Biodiversité Marine et ses Usages (MARBEC), UMR 9190 CNRS-IRD-UM-IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, CC 093, F-34095, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maire
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Biodiversité Marine et ses Usages (MARBEC), UMR 9190 CNRS-IRD-UM-IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, CC 093, F-34095, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: Fabien
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leprieur
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny; D012306:Risk
keywords: Euclidean space; cophenetic distance; dendrogram; functional diversity; functional space; phylogenetic diversity