Data from: Biodiversity assessment among two Nebraska prairies: a comparison between traditional and phylogenetic diversity indices ...

• Main Authors: Aust, Shelly K., Ahrendsen, Dakota L., Kellar, P. Roxanne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: Helianthus petiolaris; Heliopsis helianthoides var. occidentalis; Nepeta cataria; Silphium integrifolum var. laeve; Helianthus tuberosus; Carduus nutans; Lactuca ludoviciana; Solanum rostratum; Achillea millefolium; Erigeron strigosus; Antennaria negleta; Campanula rotundifolia; Salvia nemorosa; Cirsium undulatum; Monarda fistulosa var. mollis; Antennaria howellii subsp. neodioica; Ratibida columnifera; Erigeron bellidiastrum; Grindelia squarrosa var. squarrosa; Conium maculatum; Heterotheca stenophylla var. stenophylla; Cirsium canescens; Solidago missouriensis; Vernonia baldwinii; Silene antirrhina; Penstemon angustifolius; Liatris glabrata; Erigeron philadelphicus; Lygodesmia juncea; Tragopogon dubius; Zizia aurea; Ipomoea leptophylla; Penstemon gracilis; Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima; Androsace occidentalis; Galium aparine; Thelesperma filifolium; Symphoricarpos occidentalis; Convolvulus arvensis; Verbena hastata; Impatiens capensis; Verbascum thapsus; Veronica americana; Asclepias verticillata; Evolvulus nuttallianus; Solanum carolinense; asterids; Heterotheca villosa; Echinacea angustifolia; Solanum triflorum
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qj177; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qj177

Background: Conservation of the evolutionary diversity among organisms should be included in the selection of priority regions for preservation of Earth’s biodiversity. Traditionally, biodiversity has been determined from an assessment of species richness (S), abundance, evenness, rarity, etc. of organisms but not from variation in species’ evolutionary histories. Phylogenetic diversity (PD) measures evolutionary differences between taxa in a community and is gaining acceptance as a biodiversity assessment tool. However, with the increase in the number of ways to calculate PD, end-users and decision-makers are left wondering how metrics compare and what data are needed to calculate various metrics. New information: In this study, we used massively parallel sequencing to generate over 65,000 DNA characters from three cellular compartments for over 60 species in the asterid clade of flowering plants. We estimated asterid phylogenies from character datasets of varying nucleotide quantities, and then assessed ... : asterids-cpmtnucSequence alignment of 76 plastid genes, six mitochondrial genes, and three nuclear repeat regions for 62 asterid taxa plus 3 outgroupsasterids-matKSequence alignment of the plastid matK gene for 62 asterid taxa plus 3 outgroupsasterids-rbcLSequence alignment of the plastid rbcL gene for 62 asterid taxa plus 3 outgroupsasterids-rbcLmatKSequence alignment of concatenated plastid rbcL and matK genes for 62 asterid taxa plus 3 outgroups ...