Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics

3 blind to particular functional roles in the ecosystem, to associations in communities, or to their evolutionary history. The c ...

4 The main aim of this book is to contribute to the ongoing international search for reducing biodiversity losses in this critic ...

5 the emergence of new solutions and attitudes towards a more effective preservation of our evolutionary heritage. Questions Thi ...

6 If the way we value phylogenetic diversity is central for any justifi cations for including phylogeny in conservations efforts ...

7 traits. Going further, they turn our lenses to the microscopic life that is much more deeply branched in the Tree of Life. Tak ...

8 develop a set of tools for integrating species abundances in PD calculations. This proposition enlarges the range of applicati ...

9 Phylogenetic Information ”, Daniel Rafael Miranda-Esquivel develops one scheme to verify the support for area ranking using a ...

10 situation in which 39 (48 %) endemic and restricted range species are completely unprotected, among them species with very hi ...

11 features. This is a good example of the “agony of choice” of Vane-Wright et al. ( 1991 ) illustrating the diffi culty of fi n ...

12 Chao A, Chiu CH, Jost L (2010) Phylogenetic diversity measures based on Hill numbers. Philos Trans R Soc B 365(1558):3599–360 ...

13 Kier G, Kreft H, Lee TM et al (2009) A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions. ...

14 Nipperess DA, Matsen FA (2013) The mean and variance of phylogenetic diversity under rarefaction. Methods Ecol Evol 4(6):566– ...

15 Sarkar SK (2005) Biodiversity and environmental philosophy: an introduction. Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. Cam ...

Part I Questions ...

© The Author(s) 2016 19 R. Pellens, P. Grandcolas (eds.), Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics, Topics in Biod ...

20 Introduction It is not surprising that there is a bewildering array of tools available to those who would measure biodiversit ...

21 phylogenies. While Crozier et al. claim that this study is a “proof of concept ”, what they take to be an examination of phyl ...

22 This permissive and conciliatory view of biodiversity , while at fi rst seeming attractive, is problematic as a guide to cons ...

23 One of Many Biodiversities In thinking about large- scale differences in biodiversity , we often employ a concept of biodiver ...

24 characterise biodiversity appears not to rest on underlying principles for the assess- ment of the conventions underpinning s ...