Hedging Our Bets: The Expected Contribution of Species to Future Phylogenetic Diversity

If predictions for species extinctions hold, then the ‘tree of life’ today may be quite different to that in (say) 100 years. We describe a technique to quantify how much each species is likely to contribute to future biodiversity, as measured by its expected contribution to phylogenetic diversity....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mike Steel, Aki Mimoto, Arne Ø. Mooers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2007-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=376