Phylogeny and conservation
By: edited by Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman, Thomas Brooks.
Contributors: Purvis, Andy, 1967-; Gittleman, John L.; Brooks, Thomas
Series: Conservation biology -- 8; Conservation biology series (Cambridge, England) -- 8.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780521825023; 9780521532006; 9780521825024; 9780521532000
Subjects: Biodiversity conservation; Phylogeny -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Molecular phylogenetics for conservation biology -- Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Marcos Pérez-Losada and Keith A. Crandall; title: Species : demarcation and diversity -- Paul-Michael Agapow; title: Phylogenetic units and currencies above and below the species level -- John C. Avise; title: 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; title: Evolutionary heritage as a metric for conservation -- Arne Ø. Mooers, Stephen B. Heard and Eva Chrostowski; title: Age and area revisited : identifying global patterns and implications for conservation -- Kate E. Jones, Wes Sechrest and John L. Gittleman; title: Putting process on the map : why ecotones are important for preserving biodiversity -- Thomas B. Smith ... [et al.]; title: The oldest rainforests in Africa : stability or resilience for survival and diversity? -- Jon C. Lovett ... [et al.]; title: Late Tertiary and Quaternary climate change and centres of endemism in the southern African flora -- Guy F. Midgley, Gail Reeves and Cornelia Klak; title: Historical biogeography, diversity and conservation of Australia's tropical rainforest herpetofauna -- Craig Moritz ... [et al.]; title: Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history -- Thomas M. Brooks ... [et al.]; title: Correlates of extinction risk : phylogeny, biology, threat and scale -- Andy Purvis ... [et al.]; title: Mechanisms of extinction in birds : phylogeny, ecology and threats -- Peter M. Bennett ... [et al.]; title: Primate diversity patterns and their conservation in Amazonia -- José Maria Cardoso da Silva ... [et al.]; title: Predicting which species will become invasive : what's taxonomy got to do with it? -- Julie Lockwood; title: Phylogenetic futures after the latest mass extinction -- Sean Nee; title: Predicting future speciation-- Timothy G. Barraclough and T. Jonathan Davies.