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Title:

Phylogeny and conservation / edited by Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman, Thomas Brooks.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xiii, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Biological diversity conservation.
Phylogeny--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Purvis, Andy, 1967-
Gittleman, John L.
Brooks, Thomas (Thomas M.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Predicting future speciation / Timothy G. Barraclough and T. Jonathan Davies. Species : demarcation and diversity / Paul-Michael Agapow -- Phylogenetic units and currencies above and below the species level / John C. Avise -- 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 -- Evolutionary heritage as a metric for conservation / Arne Ø. Mooers, Stephen B. Heard and Eva Chrostowski -- Age and area revisited : identifying global patterns and implications for conservation / Kate E. Jones, Wes Sechrest and John L. Gittleman -- Putting process on the map : why ecotones are important for preserving biodiversity / Thomas B. Smith ... [et al.] -- The oldest rainforests in Africa : stability or resilience for survival and diversity? / Jon C. Lovett ... [et al.] -- Late Tertiary and Quaternary climate change and centres of endemism in the southern African flora / Guy F. Midgley, Gail Reeves and Cornelia Klak -- Historical biogeography, diversity and conservation of Australia's tropical rainforest herpetofauna / Craig Moritz ... [et al.] -- Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history / Thomas M. Brooks ... [et al.] -- Correlates of extinction risk : phylogeny, biology, threat and scale / Andy Purvis ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms of extinction in birds : phylogeny, ecology and threats / Peter M. Bennett ... [et al.] -- Primate diversity patterns and their conservation in Amazonia / José Maria Cardoso da Silva ... [et al.] -- Predicting which species will become invasive : what's taxonomy got to do with it? / Julie Lockwood -- Phylogenetic futures after the latest mass extinction / Sean Nee -- Predicting future speciation / Timothy G. Barraclough and T. Jonathan Davies.

Series:

Conservation biology series (Cambridge, England) 8

ISBN:

9780521532006
9780521825023
9780521532006 (pbk.)
0521532000 (pbk.)
9780521825023 (cased)
0521825024 (cased)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60667967

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)