کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4385754 1304548 2011 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Endemism and evolutionary history in conflict over Madagascar’s freshwater conservation priorities
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
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Endemism and evolutionary history in conflict over Madagascar’s freshwater conservation priorities
چکیده انگلیسی

Regional-scale biodiversity indicators provide important criteria for the selection of protected areas in conservation, but their application is often hindered by a lack of taxonomic knowledge. Moreover, different indicators include different types of information, sometimes leading to divergent conservation priorities. Madagascar tops the world list of biodiversity hotspots and much conservation effort has been directed toward its threatened plants and vertebrates. In contrast, its highly diverse freshwater invertebrate fauna has received comparatively little conservation attention. We conducted an inventory of Malagasy adephagan water beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae) using a combined morphological and molecular approach. In total, 2043 beetles from 153 sites were sequenced for cytochrome oxidase subunit I (cox1), and species delimitation was carried out using the coalescent-based GMYC model. Phylogenetic relationships of the resulting entities were established using cox1 combined with partial 16S rRNA and 28S rRNA sequences. Ten national parks were assessed for their species richness, phylogenetic diversity (PD) and endemism. We were particularly interested in the contribution of endemic species to PD. Congruence between molecular and taxonomic identifications was high (91%), with 69% of sampled species endemic to Madagascar. Interestingly, we found that PD at a site was negatively correlated to the proportion of endemic species, most likely because endemics are the result of recent radiations with relatively little branch-length contribution to the measure of PD. This suggests that ranking sites for conservation priority based solely on PD potentially disfavor endemic species by underrating areas where the evolutionary process is most active.


► We conducted a morphological and molecular inventory of Malagasy water beetles.
► We compared species richness, phylogenetic diversity and endemism per site.
► PD was negatively correlated to endemism for high proportions of endemic species.
► Ranking sites for conservation priority based on PD can disfavor endemic species.
► Integrating PD and endemism into one index optimizes evolutionary conservation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biological Conservation - Volume 144, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 1902–1909
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