Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature
Biodiversity assessment demands objective measures, because ultimately conservation decisions must prioritize the use of limited resources for preserving taxa. The most general framework for the objective assessment of conservation worth are those that assess evolutionary distinctiveness, e.g. Genet...
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| author | Ross H Crozier Lisa J Dunnett Paul-Michael Agapow |
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| description | Biodiversity assessment demands objective measures, because ultimately conservation decisions must prioritize the use of limited resources for preserving taxa. The most general framework for the objective assessment of conservation worth are those that assess evolutionary distinctiveness, e.g. Genetic (Crozier 1992) and Phylogenetic Diversity (Faith 1992), and Evolutionary History (Nee & May 1997). These measures all attempt to assess the conservation worth of any scheme based on how much of the encompassing phylogeny of organisms is preserved. However, their general applicability is limited by the small proportion of taxa that have been reliably placed in a phylogeny. Given that phylogenizaton of many interesting taxa or important is unlikely to occur soon, we present a framework for using taxonomy as a reasonable surrogate for phylogeny. Combining this framework with exhaustive searches for combinations of sites containing maximal diversity, we provide a proof-of-concept for assessing conservation schemes for systematized but un-phylogenised taxa spread over a series of sites. This is illustrated with data from four studies, on North Queensland flightless insects (Yeates et al. 2002), ants from a Florida Transect (Lubertazzi & Tschinkel 2003), New England bog ants (Gotelli & Ellison 2002) and a simulated distribution of the known New Zealand Lepidosauria (Daugherty et al. 1994). The results support this approach, indicating that species, genus and site numbers predict evolutionary history, to a degree depending on the size of the data set. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-446ea39fb7cd49b6ad689d7764a472672022-12-21T23:27:26ZengSAGE PublishingEvolutionary Bioinformatics1176-93432006-01-012187212Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclatureRoss H CrozierLisa J DunnettPaul-Michael AgapowBiodiversity assessment demands objective measures, because ultimately conservation decisions must prioritize the use of limited resources for preserving taxa. The most general framework for the objective assessment of conservation worth are those that assess evolutionary distinctiveness, e.g. Genetic (Crozier 1992) and Phylogenetic Diversity (Faith 1992), and Evolutionary History (Nee & May 1997). These measures all attempt to assess the conservation worth of any scheme based on how much of the encompassing phylogeny of organisms is preserved. However, their general applicability is limited by the small proportion of taxa that have been reliably placed in a phylogeny. Given that phylogenizaton of many interesting taxa or important is unlikely to occur soon, we present a framework for using taxonomy as a reasonable surrogate for phylogeny. Combining this framework with exhaustive searches for combinations of sites containing maximal diversity, we provide a proof-of-concept for assessing conservation schemes for systematized but un-phylogenised taxa spread over a series of sites. This is illustrated with data from four studies, on North Queensland flightless insects (Yeates et al. 2002), ants from a Florida Transect (Lubertazzi & Tschinkel 2003), New England bog ants (Gotelli & Ellison 2002) and a simulated distribution of the known New Zealand Lepidosauria (Daugherty et al. 1994). The results support this approach, indicating that species, genus and site numbers predict evolutionary history, to a degree depending on the size of the data set.http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=141Evolutionary historyphylogenetic diversitygenetic diversitybiodiversityphylogenysystematic nomenclature |
| spellingShingle | Ross H Crozier Lisa J Dunnett Paul-Michael Agapow Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature Evolutionary Bioinformatics Evolutionary history phylogenetic diversity genetic diversity biodiversity phylogeny systematic nomenclature |
| title | Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature |
| title_full | Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature |
| title_fullStr | Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature |
| title_short | Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature |
| title_sort | phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature |
| topic | Evolutionary history phylogenetic diversity genetic diversity biodiversity phylogeny systematic nomenclature |
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