PHYLOGENY AND CONSERVATION by Andrew Purvis (Editor), John L. Gittleman (Editor), Thomas M. Brooks (Editor) ( 9780521532006 )

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PHYLOGENY AND CONSERVATION

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Andrew Purvis (Editor), John L. Gittleman (Editor), Thomas M. Brooks (Editor)

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0521532000

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 September, 2005

Series:

Conservation Biology No. 10

Pages:

448

Description:

Considers how phylogeny can help understand the processes that have generated today's diversity and the processes that now threaten it.

Synopsis:

Phylogeny is a potentially powerful tool for conserving biodiversity. This book explores how it can be used to tackle questions of great practical importance and urgency for conservation. Using case studies from many different taxa and regions of the world, the volume evaluates how useful phylogeny is in understanding the processes that have generated today's diversity and the processes that now threaten it. The novelty of many of the applications, the increasing ease with which phylogenies can be generated, the urgency with which conservation decisions have to be made and the need to make decisions that are as good as possible together make this volume a timely and important synthesis which will be of great value to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers alike.

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33 b/w illus. 2 colour illus. 30 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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