Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds.

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Integrated, efficient, and global prioritization approaches are necessary to manage the ongoing loss of species and their associated function. "Evolutionary distinctness" measures a species' contribution to the total evolutionary history of its clade and is expected to capture uniquely divergent genomes and functions. Here we demonstrate how such a metric identifies species and regions of particular value for safeguarding evolutionary diversity.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Jetz, W Thomas, G.H Joy, J.B Redding, D.W Hartmann, K Mooers, A.O
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Dates:	Published: 5 May 2014
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biosciences (Sheffield) > Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (Sheffield)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number NERC NE/G012938/1
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	09 May 2014 14:26
Last Modified:	09 May 2014 14:26
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.011
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Elsevier
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.011
Related URLs:	Author
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78896

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