Genetic diversity and conservation units: dealing with the species-population continuum in the age of genomics

DJ Coates, M Byrne, C Moritz - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Current approaches to biodiversity conservation are largely based on geographic areas,
ecosystems, ecological communities, and species, with less attention on genetic diversity …

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

SD Hopper, FAO Silveira, PL Fiedler - Plant and Soil, 2016 - Springer
Background Ocbil theory aims to develop hypotheses explaining the evolution and ecology
of, and best conservation practices for, biota on very old, climatically buffered, infertile …

The importance of naming cryptic species and the conservation of endemic subterranean amphipods

T Delić, P Trontelj, M Rendoš, C Fišer - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular taxonomy often uncovers cryptic species, reminding us that taxonomic
incompleteness is even more severe than previous thought. The importance of cryptic …

Plant endemism centres and biodiversity hotspots in Greece

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, A Kallimanis… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

Endemism patterns are scale dependent

BH Daru, H Farooq, A Antonelli, S Faurby - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Areas of endemism are important in biogeography because they capture facets of
biodiversity not represented elsewhere. However, the scales at which they are relevant to …

Difficult decisions: Strategies for conservation prioritization when taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity are not spatially congruent

MW Cadotte, CM Tucker - Biological conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
Preventing further loss of biodiversity is the most important challenge for conservation
biology. The loss of species and the functions and services they provide has negative …

Effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in Europe

F Morelli, Y Benedetti, JD Ibáñez-Álamo… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Europe is an urbanized continent characterized by a long history of human-wildlife
interactions. This study aimed to assess the effects of specific elements of urbanization and …

Continental‐scale spatial phylogenetics of Australian angiosperms provides insights into ecology, evolution and conservation

AH Thornhill, BD Mishler, NJ Knerr… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biodiversity studies typically use species, or more recently phylogenetic diversity (PD),
as their analysis unit and produce a single map of observed diversity. However, observed …

Reconciling the concepts and measures of diversity, rarity and originality in ecology and evolution

A Kondratyeva, P Grandcolas, S Pavoine - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of biological diversity, or biodiversity, is at the core of evolutionary and
ecological studies. Many indices of biodiversity have been developed in the last four …

Phylogenetic diversity and conservation evaluation: perspectives on multiple values, indices, and scales of application

DP Faith - Phylogenetic diversity: Applications and challenges in …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract “Phylogenetic diversity” and its abbreviation “PD” have now become popular terms
describing a fundamental aspect of biodiversity based on phylogeny. After more than 25 …