TY - BOOK ID - 146084286 TI - Phylogeny and conservation AU - Purvis, Andy AU - Gittleman, John L. AU - Brooks, Thomas PY - 2005 SN - 1107146569 1280415398 9786610415397 0511182775 0511129327 0511200552 0511614926 051130093X PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Biodiversity conservation. KW - Phylogeny UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146084286 AB - Phylogeny is a potentially powerful tool for conserving biodiversity. This book explores how it can be used to tackle questions of great practical importance and urgency for conservation. Using case studies from many different taxa and regions of the world, the volume evaluates how useful phylogeny is in understanding the processes that have generated today's diversity and the processes that now threaten it. The novelty of many of the applications, the increasing ease with which phylogenies can be generated, the urgency with which conservation decisions have to be made and the need to make decisions that are as good as possible together make this volume a timely and important synthesis which will be of great value to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers alike. ER -