ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2001
Selective extinction and rapid loss of evolutionary history in the bird fauna.
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- Phylogenetic diversity in conservation: A brief history, critical overview, and challenges to progress.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2023Review
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- Elevated Extinction Rates as a Trigger for Diversification Rate Shifts: Early Amniotes as a Case Study.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Fossils, phylogenies, and the challenge of preserving evolutionary history in the face of anthropogenic extinctions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Anthropogenic extinction threats and future loss of evolutionary history in reef corals.Ecology and evolution · 2013Article
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- Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Article
- Phylogenetically clustered extinction risks do not substantially prune the Tree of Life.PloS one · 2011Article
- Phylogenetic representativeness: a new method for evaluating taxon sampling in evolutionary studies.BMC bioinformatics · 2010Article
- Extinction and the loss of functional diversity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2002Article
- Hotspots and the conservation of evolutionary history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2002Article
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Abstract
The extinction of species results in a permanent loss of evolutionary history. Recent theoretical studies show that this loss may be proportionally much smaller than the loss of species, but under some conditions can exceed it. Such conditions occur when the phylogenetic tree that describes the evolutionary relationships among species is highly imbalanced due to differences between lineages in past speciation and/or extinction rates. I used the taxonomy by C. G. Sibley and B. L. Monroe Jr to estimate the global loss of bird evolutionary history from historical and predicted extinctions, and to quantify the ensuing changes in balance of the bird phylogenetic tree. In the global bird fauna, evolutionary history is being lost at a high rate, similar to the rate of species extinction. The bird phylogenetic tree is highly imbalanced, and the imbalance is increased significantly by anthropogenic extinction. Historically, the elevated loss of bird evolutionary history has been fuelled mostly by phylogenetic non-randomness in the extinction of species, but the direct effect of tree imbalance is substantial and could dominate in the future.
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