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- Beyond species counts: Using evolutionary history to inform conservation
- Decade-long Amazon rainforest burn yields new insight into wildfires
- Saving coral reefs depends more on protecting fish than safeguarding locations
- The four-letter code: How DNA barcoding can accelerate biodiversity inventories
| Beyond species counts: Using evolutionary history to inform conservation Posted: 03 Sep 2015 01:05 PM PDT With limited funding available, a common strategy for conservation planners is to identify areas of high species richness and endemicity, but this approach ignores evolutionary history and so may overlook important regions for conservation. A recent study argues for the importance of incorporating phylogenetic diversity metrics in conservation planning. The study tests a dozen commonly used metrics so users can determine which metrics should be used in which situations. |
| Decade-long Amazon rainforest burn yields new insight into wildfires Posted: 02 Sep 2015 10:51 AM PDT The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to -- and bounce back from -- large-scale wildfires. |
| Saving coral reefs depends more on protecting fish than safeguarding locations Posted: 02 Sep 2015 10:51 AM PDT Coral reef diversity 'hotspots' in the southwestern Indian Ocean rely more on the biomass of fish than where they are located, researchers say, a conclusion that has major implications for management decisions to protect coral reef ecosystems. |
| The four-letter code: How DNA barcoding can accelerate biodiversity inventories Posted: 01 Sep 2015 10:51 AM PDT With unprecedented biodiversity loss occurring, we must determine how many species we share the planet with. This can start in our backyards, but speed is critical. A new study shows how biodiversity inventories can be accelerated with DNA bar-coding and rapid publishing techniques, making it possible to survey a nature reserve in just four months. |
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