Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics

46 the phylogenetic tree for which the species is a member. Thus, a species that is taxo- nomically (phylogenetically) distincti ...

47 phylogenetic diversity regionally”. This conclusion was based on apparent “overlap between regions in which species are under ...

48 some distinctiveness “weighting”. For example, Gotelli and Chao ( 2013 ), in the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity , claim that we ...

49 bells if we want to maintain ecosystem functions. Cadotte et al. argue that their measure “can be used by managers to identif ...

50 that could be achieved through protection of the area in Fig. 3b. BED (and the related method of Tucker et al. 2012 ), is not ...

51 with a concentration of threatened phylogenetic distinctive and rare species. Here, the PE measure was combined with probabil ...

52 area- based conservation priority setting?” They claim that EDR indicates high pri- ority conservation areas. However, this m ...

53 biodiversity” (see http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpaphome/gpap biodiversity/gpap_wcpabiodiv/gpap_pabiodiv/key_bio ...

54 Devictor V, Mouillot D, Meynard C, Jiguet F, Thuiller W, Mouquet N (2010) Spatial mismatch and congruence between taxonomic, ...

55 Jono CMA, Pavoine S (2012) Threat diversity will erode mammalian phylogenetic diversity in the near future. PLoS One 7(9), e4 ...

56 Saslis-Lagoudakisa CH, Savolainen V, Williamson EM, Forest F, Wagstaff SJ, Baral SR, Watson MF, Pendry CA et al (2012) Phylog ...

© The Author(s) 2016 57 R. Pellens, P. Grandcolas (eds.), Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics, Topics in Biod ...

58 Introduction There is mounting evidence that we are entering a sixth mass extinction (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 ), ...

59 functional diversity including unmeasured or hard-to-measure traits (Crozier 1997 ; Faith 2002 ). As such, phylogeny provides ...

60 1994 ). Nee et al. ( 1994 ) illustrated how extinction rates could be estimated from phylogenetic trees (but see Rabosky 2010 ...

61 volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is driven largely by human activities, and is perhaps the ...

62 (Baillie et al. 2004 ), and climate change , pollution and transmissible diseases are important in amphibians (Stuart et al. ...

63 Holocene extinction event, there was a mass extinction of much of the mammalian megafauna, resulting in a loss of several com ...

64 islands in Melanesia), the concept has been extended to include species on conti- nents (e.g. see Ricklefs and Bermingham 200 ...

65 Africa, species at higher elevations already tend to be more threatened , perhaps refl ecting recent climate shifts (Yessoufo ...