Artículo
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective
Pinto Ledezma, Jesús N.; Díaz, Sandra Myrna
; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Khoury, Colin; Cavender Bares, Jeannine
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Fecha de publicación:
12/2023
Editorial:
Ecological Society of America
Revista:
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
ISSN:
1540-9295
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
Biodiversity is ultimately the outcome of millions of years of evolution; however, due to increasing human domination of the Earth, biodiversity in its multiple dimensions is changing rapidly. Here, we present “phylogenetic completeness” (PC) as a concept and method for safeguarding Earth's evolutionary heritage by maintaining all branches of the tree of life. Using data for five major terrestrial clades, we performed a global evaluation of the PC approach and compared the results to an approach in which species are conserved or lost at random. We demonstrate that under PC, for a given number of species extinctions, it is possible to maximize the protection of evolutionary innovations in every clade. The PC approach is flexible, may be used to conduct a phylogenetic audit of biodiversity under different conservation scenarios, complements existing conservation efforts, and is linked to the post-2020 UN Convention on Biodiversity targets.
Palabras clave:
BIODIVERISTY
,
PHYLOGENY
,
CONSERVATION
,
CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
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Pinto Ledezma, Jesús N.; Díaz, Sandra Myrna; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Khoury, Colin; Cavender Bares, Jeannine; No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective; Ecological Society of America; Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment; 2023; 12-2023; 1-8
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