Revisiting species and areas of interest for conserving global mammalian phylogenetic diversity.

ABSTRACT: Various prioritisation strategies have been developed to cope with accelerating biodiversity loss and limited conservation resources. These strategies could become more engaging for decision-makers if they reflected the positive effects conservation can have on future projected biodiversity, by targeting net positive outcomes in future projected biodiversity, rather than reflecting the negative consequences of further biodiversity losses only. Hoping to inform the post-2020 biodiversity framework, we here apply this approach of targeting net positive outcomes in future projected biodiversity to phylogenetic diversity (PD) to re-identify species and areas of interest for conserving global mammalian PD. We identify priority species/areas as those whose protection would maximise gains in futu

SUBMITTER: Robuchon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211746 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature