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Integrative Biology 200B                                                                                                                                                        Spring 2007

 

"PRINCIPLES OF PHYLOGENETICS:  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION"

 

Most important recommended readings are in bold face; required readings also have two asterisks

 

 

April 19: PHYLOGENETICS IN RELATION TO CONSERVATION:

 

Faith, D. P.  1992a.  Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity.  Biological Conservation 61:1-10.

 

Faith, D. P.  1992b.  Systematics and conservation: on predicting the feature diversity of subsets of taxa.  Cladistics 8:361-373.

 

**Forey, P.L.,  C. J. Humphries and P. H. Williams.  1994.  Systematics and conservation evaluation,  Systematics Association Special Volume No. 50.  Clarendon Press, Oxford.

 

Forest, F. et al. 2007. Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots. Nature 445: 757-760.

 

Hardy O.J. and B. Senterre. 2007. Characterizing the phylogenetic structure of communities by an additive partitioning of phylogenetic diversity. J. Ecol. 95: 493-506.

 

Mishler, B.D. 1995.  Plant systematics and conservation: science and society.  Madrońo 42: 103-113.

 

Mishler, B. D. 1999. Getting rid of species? Pp.307-315 in R. Wilson (ed.), Species: new interdisciplinary essays. MIT Press.

 

Moritz, C.,  J. L. Patton, C. J. Schneider, and T. B. Smith.  2000. DIVERSIFICATION OF RAINFOREST FAUNAS: An Integrated Molecular Approach  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31: 533-563

 

Polhemus, D. A. (1997). “Phylogenetic analysis of the Hawaiian damselfly genus Megalagrion (Odonata: Coenagrionidae): Implications for biogeography, ecology, and conservation biology.” Pacific Science, 51(4), 395-412.

 

Sarkar S., et al. 2006. Biodiversity conservation planning tools: present status and challenges for the future. Ann. Rev. Environ. Resour. 31: 123-159.

 

Tyler, H. A., Brown, K. S., Jr., and Wilson, K. H. (1994). “Swallowtail butterflies of the Americas: A study in biological dynamics, ecological diversity, biosystematics, and conservation.”

 

Vane-Wright, R. I., C. J. Humphries and P. H. Williams.  1991.  What to protect? -- Systematics and the agony of choice.  Biological Conservation 55:235-254.