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211 I generated PD rarefaction curves and ∆PD values for the mammal faunas of 71 of the 79 terrestrial ecoregions recognised by ...

212 Future Directions As demonstrated here, rarefaction of PD has a straightforward application in stan- dardising PD across sam ...

213 and its extension to other metrics is still very much in its infancy. Here I will outline some future directions for PD rare ...

214 but rather by sample completeness (Alroy 2010 ; Jost 2010 ; Chao and Jost 2012 ). Completeness, when measured by a statistic ...

215 hopefully useful in improving understanding of the importance of rarefaction in ecology and in guiding future applications o ...

216 DaviesTJ,BuckleyLB(2012)Exploringthephylogenetichistoryofmammalspeciesrichness. GlobEcolBiogeogr21:1096–1105 DaviesRG,OrmeCD ...

217 MedellinRA,EquihuaM,AminM(2000)Batdiversityandabundanceasindicatorsofdistur- banceinneotropicalrainforests.ConservBiol14:166 ...

© The Author(s) 2016 219 R. Pellens, P. Grandcolas (eds.), Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics, Topics in Bio ...

220 2000 ). Any useful metric must include the evolutionary value of the species (Rolland et al. 2012 ), where the most importan ...

221 comparison of topologies with different number of species. In a topology with three species (I (II III)), distributed as tax ...

222 available phylogenetic diversity indices, with particular respect to the needs of con- servationists – which index helps to ...

223 The fi rst question arises when we ask about the distributional pattern of the spe- cies: what if a locality (therefore all ...

224 There is a fourth question, not considered here, related to the length of the branch. This question is valid in the context ...

225 1st/2nd/3rd), but in any order. The researcher could consider only the fi rst position in the ranking and evaluates the pers ...

226 Number of Replicates Hedges ( 1992 ) presented the number 1825 as the number of replicates needed to obtain an accuracy of ± ...

a J.topol value 0.32 b Index % of times areas 1st/2nd/3rd are recovered 20 40 60 80 100 endem I I_e I_s I_se rich W W_e W_s W_es ...

1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 25 50 75 100 BCDEFGH I J K LM Areas I Index % rec a Jtopol: 0.32 Jtip: 0.32 b 1 1 1 1 2 2 (^22) 2 (^32) 3 3 3 3 ...

229 un-sampled data set might be misleading, while jack-knifi ng could help to decide which is the most supported solution. Seco ...

0 25 50 75 100 endem I I_e I_s I_se rich W W_e W_s W_es Index % of times areas 1st/2nd/3rd are recovered J.tip.value 0.32 0.5 1 ...

231 1 (^21) 2 3 25 50 75 100 BEL GUI IME INA NAP RON TAP XIN Areas W_s Index % rec a Jtopol: 0.32 Jtip: 0.32 b 1 2 1 2 3 2 3 3 2 ...