著者

粕谷 英一

出版者

日本生態学会

雑誌

日本生態学会誌 (ISSN:00215007)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.3, pp.277-288, 1995-12-20

被引用文献数

6

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Recent developments in methods of comparative analysis were reviewed. The difference in correlation between traits of extant (tip) species and that between changes in traits along branches of a phylogenetic tree was critical. Techniques of comparative methods for considering the effects of phylogeny were reviewed. They included comparison of higher taxon means, comparison within higher taxa, division of variation using a matrix of phylogenetic similarity, independent comparison method and cladistic methods. The nature of statistical inference in comparative methods, and the connection between comparative ecology and phylogenetics were discussed.