This is a large, collaborative project including a series of working group meetings funded by the Long-Term Ecological Research Network and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
The overarching goal of the workshop series is to increase understanding of the extent to which phylogenetic history influences ecological processes through trait similarities among relatives at regional and continental scales across biomes in North America
Download EcoPhyl 2.0 (Cavender-Bares and Lehman)
Software for community phylogenetic analyses using matrix methods. EcoPhyl complements other software packages, such as Phylocom (Webb, Ackerly, Kembel), Mesquite (Maddison and Maddison), and Ecosim (Gotelli and Entsminger). EcoPhyl is a work in progress that we are developing for the analysis of large data sets.
Flowering time divergence is a potentially important isolating mechanism allowing the coexistence of sister taxa. The purpose of this collaborative network is to monitor flowering time phenology in live oak species across a latitudinal gradient and to compare phenological variation to interspecific genetic differentiation and climatic patterns.
Live Oak Phenology Network (LOPnet)
