Phylowood

Phylowood visualizes spatial-temporal phylogeographic and biogeographic histories through animated representations of annotated phylogenetic data.

Key Features:

• Spatial-temporal Animations: Generates dynamic animations that depict historical distributions of species or lineages over time and space using annotated phylogenetic input.
• Adjustable Resolution: Supports adjustable spatial and temporal resolution for animations to examine specific periods or regions within evolutionary histories.
• Lineage Highlighting: Enables highlighting of specific phylogenetic lineages to focus analysis on particular branches.

Scientific Applications:

• Biogeography and Phylogeography Visualization: Visualizes changes in species distributions over time to support studies in biogeography and phylogeography.
• Hypothesis Generation and Testing: Facilitates generation and testing of hypotheses about historical biogeographic events driven by ecological and geological factors.

Methodology:

Integrates annotated phylogenetic data with geographic information systems (GIS) principles to create spatial-temporal animations and relies on JavaScript to render visualizations within a web browser.