No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective
| dc.creator | Pinto-Ledezma, Jesus N | |
| dc.creator | Díaz, Sandra | |
| dc.creator | Halpern, Benjamin S. | |
| dc.creator | Khoury, Colin | |
| dc.creator | Cavender-Bares, Jeannine | |
| dc.date | 2024-03 | |
| dc.date | 2025-03-20T16:07:37Z | |
| dc.date | 2025-03-20T16:07:37Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T13:25:22Z | |
| dc.description | Biodiversity is ultimately the outcome of millions of years of evolution; however, due to increasing human domination of the Earth, biodiversity in its multiple dimensions is changing rapidly. Here, we present “phylogenetic completeness” (PC) as a concept and method for safeguarding Earth's evolutionary heritage by maintaining all branches of the tree of life. Using data for five major terrestrial clades, we performed a global evaluation of the PC approach and compared the results to an approach in which species are conserved or lost at random. We demonstrate that under PC, for a given number of species extinctions, it is possible to maximize the protection of evolutionary innovations in every clade. The PC approach is flexible, may be used to conduct a phylogenetic audit of biodiversity under different conservation scenarios, complements existing conservation efforts, and is linked to the post‐2020 UN Convention on Biodiversity targets. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173762 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/58893 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Pinto-Ledezma, J.N.; Díaz, S.; Halpern, B.S.; Khoury, C.; Cavender-Bares, J. (2024) No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 22(2): e2696. ISSN: 1540-9295 | |
| dc.subject | evaluation | |
| dc.subject | biodiversity | |
| dc.subject | clade | |
| dc.subject | phylogenetics | |
| dc.title | No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective | |
| dc.type | Journal Article |