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Biodiversity Facets

Maps accompanying Pollock, Thuiller & Jetz (2017): Large conservation gains possible for global biodiversity facets. Nature.

[marxan]: Maps accompanying Rosauer, Pollock, Linke & Jetz (2017): Phylogenetically informed spatial planning is required to conserve the mammalian tree of life. Proceedings B.

  • Global phylo diversity priority [Marxan] indicates the most essential areas to represent global mammal phylogenetic diversity with:
    • targets for conservation of each unit of diversity based on its geographic range
    • total conservation area limited to 10% of world land
  • Global phylo diversity priority [Marxan] indicates the most essential areas to represent global mammal species diversity with:
    • targets for conservation of each species based on its geographic range
    • total conservation area limited to 10% of world land

Select news coverage:

Conservationists Could Be Saving More Biodiversity in Less Space
May 24, 2017 // by Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker

Study: Targeted conservation could protect more of Earth’s biodiversity
May 25, 2017 // by Jim Shelton, Yale News

Protecting A Little More Land Could Save A Lot More Biodiversity
Jul 10, 2017 // by Will Sullivan, PBS

Background on data:

MOL Datasets

VertLife

A Global Phylogeny of Birds

UNEP-WCMC and IUCN 2017, Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [On-line], May 2017, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.

Relevant publications:

Barbet-Massin, M., and W. Jetz. 2015. The effect of range changes on the functional turnover, structure and diversity of bird assemblages under future climate scenarios. Global Change Biology 21:2917–2928.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12905/abstract
Jarzyna, M. A., and W. Jetz. 2016. Detecting the Multiple Facets of Biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 527-538.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534716300222
Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann, D. Redding, and A. O. Mooers. 2014. Distribution and conservation of global evolutionary distinctness in birds. Current Biology 24:919-930.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)00270-X
Pollock, L. J., D. F. Rosauer, A. H. Thornhill, H. Kujala, M. D. Crisp, J. T. Miller, and M. A. McCarthy. 2015. Phylogenetic diversity meets conservation policy: small areas are key to preserving eucalypt lineages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 370:20140007.
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1662/20140007
Jetz, W., J. M. McPherson, and R. P. Guralnick. 2012. Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27:151-159.
http://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(11)00267-9.pdf
Hurlbert, A. H., and W. Jetz. 2007. Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation. PNAS 104:13384-13389.
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/33/13384.full
Rosauer, D. F., and W. Jetz. 2015. Phylogenetic endemism in terrestrial mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:168-179.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/geb.12237/abstract

Other links:

Jetz Lab

Center for Biodiversity and Global Change

Laura Pollock Research

Dr Wilfried Thuiller

Dan Rosauer

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