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Indonesia's threatened birds: over 500 million years of evolutionary heritage at risk

Indonesia's threatened birds: over 500 million years of evolutionary heritage at risk Using published IUCN red‐lists for the threatened bird species of Indonesia (Stattersfield & Capper, 2000), we document that the species at risk in Indonesia are not a taxonomically random sample, consistent with patterns seen at the global scale (Purvis et al., 2000). This implies that a greater than random proportion of Indonesia's and the world's (through the loss of endemics) phylogenetic diversity (PD) is at risk (Von Euler, 2001). Using cytochrome b (Johns & Avise, 1998) and a distance‐based taxonomy, we attempt to quantify this projected loss of PD in millions of years and conclude with a brief discussion of the conservation implications for Indonesia, and of the use of ‘evolutionary heritage’ as a measure for conservation at the geopolitical level. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animal Conservation Wiley

Indonesia's threatened birds: over 500 million years of evolutionary heritage at risk

Animal Conservation , Volume 6 (2) – May 1, 2003

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Wiley
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"Copyright © 2003 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company"
ISSN
1367-9430
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1469-1795
DOI
10.1017/S1367943003003226
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Abstract

Using published IUCN red‐lists for the threatened bird species of Indonesia (Stattersfield & Capper, 2000), we document that the species at risk in Indonesia are not a taxonomically random sample, consistent with patterns seen at the global scale (Purvis et al., 2000). This implies that a greater than random proportion of Indonesia's and the world's (through the loss of endemics) phylogenetic diversity (PD) is at risk (Von Euler, 2001). Using cytochrome b (Johns & Avise, 1998) and a distance‐based taxonomy, we attempt to quantify this projected loss of PD in millions of years and conclude with a brief discussion of the conservation implications for Indonesia, and of the use of ‘evolutionary heritage’ as a measure for conservation at the geopolitical level.

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Animal ConservationWiley

Published: May 1, 2003

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