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25 The Main Candidates As noted in the previous section, current broad characterisations of biodiversity permit a range of targe ...

26 Function and Morphology Functional diversity , as it is commonly used, is a subset of trait diversity. Functional traits are ...

27 dissimilarities (Vandamme 2009 ). The computational models used differ both in methodology and epistemological grounding; pro ...

28 us to detect cases that stand in need of special explanation. These are cases where functional diversity is either higher (ov ...

29 our empirical and philosophical justifi cation for such uses. In the fi nal section of this chapter it is this question about ...

30 actors or by environmental stakeholders. The best we seem to be able to say is that some people, when asked, assent to the ex ...

31 implausible that common emotional responses to nature will justify general mea- sure of biodiversity. Instrumental Value The ...

32 expressed enthusiasm for the option value idea (Maclaurin and Sterelny 2008 , sec- tion 8.4) we now think that the answer lie ...

33 native projects (e.g. if we used conservation funding to fi ght diseases or conservation land to grow more food for burgeonin ...

34 specifying the properties (or in the case of a morphospace, the dimensions) to be analysed. In taxonomy this almost always re ...

35 as a character and (2) that all characters across all clades are of equal signifi cance or contribute equally to biodiversity ...

36 Culver M, Fitak R, Herrmann H (2011) Genetic methods for biodiversity assessment. In: Magurran AE, McGill BJ (eds) Biological ...

37 Norton BG (1988) Commodity, amenity, and morality: the limits of quantifi cation in valuing biodiversity. In: Wilson EO (ed) ...

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40 natural conservation goal (e.g. Mooers and Atkins 2003 ). This fundamental rela- tionship between evolutionary history and co ...

41 general link between biodiversity and option values: “ Biodiversity loss is important in its own right because biodiversity h ...

42 diversity. They explored PD and option value based on an estimated phylogenetic tree and the geographic distribution of angio ...

43 rectly interpreted “phylogenetic diversity” as any measure derived from a nominated between-species phylogenetic distance. Th ...

44 remains the core measure of “ diversity ”, but the other calculations capture other aspects – for example, expected change in ...

45 branches of the estimated phylogeny. The degree of complementarity refl ects the relative number of additional features contr ...