Unifying measures of biodiversity: Understanding when richness and phylogenetic diversity should be congruent

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 845-854

  Tucker, Caroline M ^a   Cadotte, Marc W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Conservation prioritization; Evolutionary history; Habitat protection; Phylogenetic diversity; Spatial distributions

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIVERSITY INDEX; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY; VALUATION;

EID: 84879146259     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12087     Document Type: Article

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