Phylogeny and Conservation

by Edited by Andrew Purvis , John L. Gittleman , Thomas Brooks

• ISBN13: 9780521825023
• ISBN10: 0521825024
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 urgency with which conservation decisions have to be made as well as the need for the best possible decisions make this volume of great value to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
1 Phylogeny and conservation	1	(18)
ANDY PURVIS, JOHN L. GITTLEMAN AND THOMAS M. BROOKS
Part 1 Units and currencies
2 Molecular phylogenetics for conservation biology	19	(38)
ELIZABETH A. SINCLAIR, MARCOS PÉREZ-LOSADA AND KEITH A. CRANDALL
3 Species: demarcation and diversity	57	(19)
PAUL-MICHAEL AGAPOW
4 Phylogenetic units and currencies above and below the species level	76	(25)
JOHN C. AVISE
5 Integrating phylogenetic diversity in the selection of priority areas for conservation: does it make a difference?	101	(19)
ANA S.L. RODRIGUES, THOMAS M. BROOKS AND KEVIN J. GASTON
6 Evolutionary heritage as a metric for conservation	120	(21)
ARNE Ø. MOOERS, STEPHEN B. HEARD AND EVA CHROSTOWSKI
Part 2 Inferring evolutionary processes
7 Age and area revisited: identifying global patterns and implications for conservation	141	(25)
KATE E. JONES, WES SECHREST AND JOHN L. GITTLEMAN
8 Putting process on the map: why ecotones are important for preserving biodiversity	166	(32)
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?	198	(32)
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	230	(13)
GUY F. MIDGLEY, GAIL REEVES AND CORNELIA KLAK
11 Historical biogeography, diversity and conservation of Australia's tropical rainforest herpetofauna	243	(24)
CRAIG MORITZ, CONRAD HOSKIN, CATHERINE H. GRAHAM, ANDREW HUGALL AND ADNAN MOUSSALLI
Part 3 Effects of human processes
12 Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history	267	(28)
THOMAS M. BROOKS, JOHN D. PILGRIM, ANA S.L. RODRIGUES AND GUSTAVO A.B. DA FONSECA
13 Correlates of extinction risk: phylogeny, biology, threat and scale	295	(22)
ANDY PURVIS, MARCEL CARDILLO, RICHARD GRENYER AND BEN COLLEN
14 Mechanisms of extinction in birds: phylogeny, ecology and threats	317	(20)
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	337	(28)
JOSÉ MARIA 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?	365	(22)
JULIE LOCKWOOD
Part 4 Prognosis
17 Phylogenetic futures after the latest mass extinction	387	(13)
SEAN NEE
18 Predicting future speciation	400	(19)
TIMOTHY G. BARRACLOUGH AND T. JONATHAN DAVIES
Index	419