Rosauer, DanTucker, Caroline M.Cadotte, Marc W.Carvalho, Silvia B.Davies, T. JonathanFerrier, SimonFritz, Susanne A.Grenyer, RichHelmus, Matthew R.Jin, Lanna S.Mooers, Arne O.Pavoine, Sandrine2021-04-282021-04-281464-7931http://hdl.handle.net/1885/231087The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub-disciplines, particularly conservation, community ecology and macroecology, all recognize the value of evolutionary relationships but the resulting development of phylogenetic approaches has led to a proliferation of phylogenetic diversity metrics. The use of many metrics across the sub-disciplines hampers potential meta-analyses, syntheses, and generalizations of existing results. Further, there is no guide for selecting the appropriate metric for a given question, and different metrics are frequently used to address similar questions. To improve the choice, application, and interpretation of phylo-diversity metrics, we organize existing metrics by expanding on a unifying framework for phylogenetic information.S.B.C. was funded by a postdoctoral grant from Fundac¸ao para a ˜ Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) (SFRH/BPD/74423/2010), ˆ and through the project PTDC/BIA-BIC/118624/2010- FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-019676, supported by Fonds Europeen de D ´ eveloppement ´ Economique et R ´ egional ´ (FEDER) funds through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors (COMPETE) and by National Funds through FCT. M.R.H. is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (858.14.040). F.M. received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement no. 281422 (TEEMBIO). S.A.F. acknowledges funding by the LOEWE Zentrum AdRIA funding program, of Hesse’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts.application/pdfen-AU© 2016 The Authors. Biological Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Cambridge Philosophical Society.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/201710.1111/brv.122522020-11-23Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License