In most cases, researchers draw phylogenetic trees in such a way as to record only those events that are relevant to a set of living taxa. Most commonly, these taxa are species. For example ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

They used Blomberg's K statistic to quantify tree growth phylogenetic signal (TGPS) values. The researchers used two long-term tree growth datasets, one monitoring the growth of 225 tree species ...