Phylogeny and Conservation (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511128691
• Artikelnr.: 38193488

Autorenporträt

ANDY PURVIS is Reader in Biodiversity at Imperial College London. His research interests include phylogenetics, macroevolution and conservation biology, and his current research focuses on using phylogenies to study macroevolution and extinction.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Phylogeny and conservation Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman and Thomas M.
Brooks; Part I. Units and Currencies: 2. Molecular phylogenetics for
conservation biology Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Marcos Pérez-Losada and Keith
A. Crandall; 3. Species: demarcation and diversity Paul-Michael Agapow, 4.
Phylogenetic units and currencies above and below the species level John C.
Avise; 5. Integrating phylogenetic diversity in the selection of priority
areas for conservation: does it make a difference? Ana S. L. Rodrigues,
Thomas M. Brooks and Kevin J. Gaston; 6. Evolutionary heritage as a metric
for conservation Arne Ø. Mooers, Stephen B. Heard and E. Chrostowski; Part
II. Inferring Evolutionary Processes: 7. Age and area revisited:
identifying global patterns and implications for conservation Kate E.
Jones, Wes Sechrest and John L. Gittleman; 8. Putting process on the map:
why ecotones are important for preserving biodiversity Thomas B. Smith,
Sassan Saatchi, Catherine Graham, Hans Slabbekoorn and Greg Spicer; 9. The
oldest rainforests in Africa: stability or resilience for survival and
diversity? Jon C. Lovett, Rob Marchant, James Taplin and Wolfgang Küper;
10. Late Tertiary and Quaternary climate change and centres of endemism in
the southern African flora Guy F. Midgley, Gail Reeves and C. Klak; 11.
Historical biogeography, diversity and conservation of Australia's tropical
rainforest herpetofauna Craig Moritz, Conrad Hoskin, Catherine H. Graham,
Andrew Hugall and Adnan Moussalli; Part III. Effects of Human Processes:
12. Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary
history Thomas M. Brooks, J. D. Pilgrim, Ana S. L. Rodrigues and Gustavo A.
B. da Fonseca; 13. Correlates of extinction risk: phylogeny, biology,
threat and scale Andy Purvis, Marcel Cardillo, Richard Grenyer and Ben
Collen; 14. Mechanisms of extinction in birds: phylogeny, ecology and
threats Peter M. Bennett, Ian P. F. Owens, Daniel Nussey, Stephen T.
Garnett and Gabriel M. Crowley; 15. Primate diversity patterns and their
conservation in Amazonia José M. Cardoso da Silva, Anthony B. Rylands, José
S. Silva Júnior, Claude Gascon and Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca; 16. Predicting
which species will become invasive: what's taxonomy got to do with it?
Julie Lockwood; Part IV. Prognosis: 17. Phylogenetic futures after the
latest mass extinction Sean Nee; 18. Predicting future speciation Timothy
G. Barraclough and T. Jonathan Davies.