Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving ou

Phylogenetic diversity is now a key concept for biodiversity conservation due to its link to option value, evolutionary potential and to the possibility of guiding conservation across scales. Present facilities for obtaining molecular sequences and metage

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Roseli Pellens Philippe Grandcolas Editors

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis

Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation Volume 14

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7488

Roseli Pellens • Philippe Grandcolas Editors

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis

With the support of Labex BCDIV and ANR BIONEOCAL

Editors Roseli Pellens Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Sorbonne Universités Paris, France

Philippe Grandcolas Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Sorbonne Universités Paris, France

ISSN 1875-1288 ISSN 1875-1296 (electronic) Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation ISBN 978-3-319-22460-2 ISBN 978-3-319-22461-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22461-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015960738 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. The book is published with open access at SpringerLink.com. Chapter 15 was created within the capacity of an US governmental employment. US copyright protection does not apply. Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Foreword

The desperate, and seemingly inexorably worsening, state of biodiversity on Earth is arguably not a consequence of conscious choices. That is much of the problem. There are undoubtedly cases, and many of them, in