Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics

315 survey coverage, whether coastal or oceanic, is very limited (Jewell et al. 2012 ). Less than 25 % of the ocean surface has ...

316 and Fernandez de Larrinoa 2013 ). Both species are facing fragmentation of their habitat that overlaps with a number of huma ...

317 References Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, May-Collado LJ (2010) Dogs, cats, and kin: a molecular species-level phylogeny of Carnivo ...

318 Kuntner M, May-Collado LJ, Agnarsson I (2009) Phylogeny and conservation priorities of afroth- erian mammals (Afrotheria, Ma ...

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320 Introduction Conservation is an increasing necessity for the world (Pimm et al. 1995 ), and one that requires immediate acti ...

321 Ostrovsky 2003 ; Gillespie et al. 2008 ; Kearney and Porter 2009 ). By fi rst focusing on the spatial aspects of a threat st ...

322 animals, we study this by quantifying isolation and size of patches (or islands). Relatedly, metapopulation theory itself wa ...

323 Global Self-Consistent Hierarchical High-Resolution Shoreline Data We began with Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-re ...

324 Data Analysis After fi nding those islands where both GSHHS and IUCN datasets intersected, we calculated the relative λ (^) ...

325 further give an average λ (^) M -ED score per island, we took the sum of species’ scores and divided this by the number of i ...

Table 1 Top 10 species in order of decreasing λ (^) M -ED score Island Species λ (^) M ED Jamaica Ariteus fl avescens 0.93350 Ma ...

327 Discussion Summary We found Least Concern and Data Defi cient island-restricted mammals that possess a high combined score o ...

328 continental ones, considering their distribution size, “suggesting that evolutionary isolation is not the reason for their v ...

329 Next Steps Several aspects of this analysis can be modifi ed depending on the user’s goals. For example, we took 5 km to be ...

330 λ (^) M -ED island species are similar to those we identifi ed in the global EDGE analysis. We also need to discuss GE and h ...

331 Hanski I, Simberloff D (1997) The metapopulation approach, its history, conceptual domain, and application to conservation. ...

332 S a fi K, Armour-Marshall K, Baillie JE, Isaac NJ (2013) Global patterns of evolutionary distinct and globally endangered am ...

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334 the area of highest diversity, but other regions, such as Central America and the upper Amazon, are also important. Finally, ...