Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics

66 The Importance of Phylogeny in Conservation Why We Need to Evaluate Extinction Risk within a Phylogenetic Framework Phylogene ...

67 cost effective to prevent species declines before they begin versus reestablishing viable populations for species that have a ...

68 phylogenetic selectivity in extinction risk might also result from a geographical pat- tern in the drivers of extinction, for ...

69 extinction and greater than random loss of phylogenetic diversity seemed intuitive; if two sister species are lost to extinct ...

70 particularities of phylogenetic tree topology in combination with a tendency for more extinction prone species to fall within ...

71 evolutionary change, including the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model which approximates stochastic evolution with stabilizing selectio ...

72 equal weights) following the approach of Witting and Loeschcke ( 1995 ). Extinction categories were fi rst converted into ext ...

73 data (e.g. Blomberg et al. 2003 ; O’Meara et al. 2006 ; Harmon et al. 2010 ). It remains possible that Brownian motion might ...

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© The Author(s) 2016 81 R. Pellens, P. Grandcolas (eds.), Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics, Topics in Biod ...

82 Introduction Variously described as a diversity hotspot, Gondwanan remnant and paradise lost to invasive species (e.g. Daughe ...

83 Processes 1 and 2 could in themselves constitute evidence of distinctive unusual evolutionary mechanisms that demand conserva ...

84 Taxa on short branches nested within a clade, but accompanied by other charac- ter information on their distinctiveness (mor ...

85 ago) (e.g. Penny and Phillips 2004 ). This fi nding countered opinions established on a formerly defi cient fossil record tha ...