Combinatorial and probabilistic methods in biodiversity theory
Phylogenetic diversity (PD) is a measure of species biodiversity quantified by how much of an evolutionary tree is spanned by a subset of species. In this thesis, we study optimization problems that aim to find species sets with maximum PD in different scenarios, and examine random extinction models...
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University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3985 |