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Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis
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Significance: Biodiversity is more than the number of species on Earth. It is also the amount of unique evolutionary history in the tree of life. We find that losses of this phylogenetic diversity (PD) are disproportionally large in mammals compared with the number of species that have recently gone extinct. This lost PD can only be restored with time as lineages evolve and create new evolutionary history. Without coordinated conservation, it will likely take millions of years for mammals to naturally recover from the biodiversity losses they are predicted to endure over the next 50 y. However, by prioritizing PD in conservation, we could potentially save billions of years of unique evolutionary history and the important ecological functions they may represent.
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- Authors
- Davis, M., Faurby, S., & Svenning, J.-C.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2018-10-15
- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 44
- Pages
- 11262-11267
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2896367418
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 17.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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