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

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Molecular phylogenetics for conservation biology / Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Marcos Pérez-Losada and Keith A. Crandall -- 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 [and others] -- The oldest rainforests in Africa : stability or resilience for survival and diversity? / Jon C. Lovett [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- Conservation status and geographic.

distribution of avian evolutionary history / Thomas M. Brooks [and others] -- Correlates of extinction risk : phylogeny, biology, threat and scale / Andy Purvis [and others] -- Mechanisms of extinction in birds : phylogeny, ecology and threats / Peter M. Bennett [and others] -- Primate diversity patterns and their conservation in Amazonia / José Maria Cardoso da Silva [and others] -- 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.

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.