Phylogeny and Conservation

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Paperback | 6 October 2005

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Phylogeny is a potentially powerful tool for conserving biodiversity. This book explores how it can be used to tackle questions of great practical importance and urgency for conservation. Using case studies from many different taxa and regions of the world, the volume evaluates how useful phylogeny is in understanding the processes that have generated today's diversity and the processes that now threaten it. The novelty of many of the applications, the increasing ease with which phylogenies can be generated, the urgency with which conservation decisions have to be made and the need to make decisions that are as good as possible together make this volume a timely and important synthesis which will be of great value to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers alike.

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'Conservation books rarely display such optimism.' Biologist '... a judicious volume that combines the original work and reviews of a wide range of experts into four main sections, within and across which chapters are well edited to interconnect, with cohesively styled and clear graphics. ...This book is an excellent example of how diligent editors can pull together a controversial part of a field, particularly if backed by institutions with sufficient clout and resources to attract top participants. With its timely contributions, this volume will be valuable as supplementary reading for any course in conservation genetics, and will be particularly useful to advanced graduate students.' Oryx

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List of contributors	p. ix
Phylogeny and conservation	p. 1
Units and currencies
Molecular phylogenetics for conservation biology	p. 19
Species: demarcation and diversity	p. 57
Phylogenetic units and currencies above and below the species level	p. 76
Integrating phylogenetic diversity in the selection of priority areas for conservation: does it make a difference?	p. 101
Evolutionary heritage as a metric for conservation	p. 120
Inferring evolutionary processes
Age and area revisited: identifying global patterns and implications for conservation	p. 141
Putting process on the map: why ecotones are important for preserving biodiversity	p. 166
The oldest rainforests in Africa: stability or resilience for survival and diversity?	p. 198
Late Tertiary and Quaternary climate change and centres of endemism in the southern African flora	p. 230
Historical biogeography, diversity and conservation of Australia's tropical rainforest herpetofauna	p. 243
Effects of human processes
Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history	p. 267
Correlates of extinction risk: phylogeny, biology, threat and scale	p. 295
Mechanisms of extinction in birds: phylogeny, ecology and threats	p. 317
Primate diversity patterns and their conservation in Amazonia	p. 337
Predicting which species will become invasive: what's taxonomy got to do with it?	p. 365
Prognosis
Phylogenetic futures after the latest mass extinction	p. 387
Predicting future speciation	p. 400
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