phylodiversity

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English

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Etymology

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phylo- +‎ diversity

Noun

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phylodiversity (countable and uncountable, plural phylodiversities)

  1. (ecology) The diversity of phyla in a habitat etc
    • 2015 October 21, “Flea-Associated Bacterial Communities across an Environmental Transect in a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      From this rarefied dataset, alpha diversity was estimated in two ways using QIIME v1.8: observed species and phylodiversity.