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David W Redding¹, Florent Mazel², Arne Ø Mooers³

¹Department of Biology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Centre of Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Conservation funding often overlooks many species. This study analyzes methods for prioritizing species based on evolutionary relatedness, finding significant overlap and recommending standardized comparisons for better conservation planning.

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Area of Science:

Conservation Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Phylogenetics

Background:

Limited resources necessitate strategic species prioritization in conservation planning.
Current conservation funding disproportionately favors certain taxa, like raptors and carnivores, neglecting broader biodiversity.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate existing metrics for prioritizing species based on their phylogenetic relatedness.
To identify redundancy among proposed metrics and understand their implications for conservation priority lists.

Main Methods:

Analysis of eleven proposed phylogenetic metrics for species conservation prioritization.
Identification of redundant metrics and assessment of trade-offs between unique evolutionary history and average relatedness.

Main Results:

Three pairs of the eleven metrics were found to be essentially identical, indicating significant redundancy.
Different metrics can lead to up to 85% variation in the top 100 prioritized species, highlighting the impact of metric choice.

Conclusions:

A call for consensus on the theoretical underpinnings of phylogenetic diversity metrics for conservation.
Recommendation for future metrics to be compared against the current published set, with provided scripts to facilitate this.