bioGENESIS highlighted points from the annual report

1. bioGENESIS highlighted points from the annual report Dan Faith, Tet Yahara

2. Overview of activities • Lohmann, Hendry lead bioGENESIS symposium at the annual conference of the Association of Tropical Biodiversity Conservation (ATBC) and Donoghue plenary lecture “Reconnecting ecology and evolution to cope with global change” • A. Hendry participated in Applied Evolution Summit, Aus. • “From microbial to conservation biology: exploring phylogenetic beta diversity as a theoretical tool uniting disciplines”, at 95th ESA meeting, Pittsburgh (Faith+) • 3-days training workshop on "Phylogenetics and population genetics“ (Crandall+) • Tet Yahara various meetings and workshops in Japan • Numerous other talks and workshops – see report • See report for list of papers, including those in COSUST.

3. An example of AP-BON activities linked with bioGENESIS Pilot study in Cambodian plots Networking Asian forest plots Many 1 ha plots SD/PD/FD assessments Determine DNA sequences for all tree species Time-series records of loss FD (Functional trait diversity) PD (Phylogenetic diversity) SD(Species diversity) Legumes Species lost Global legume assessments

4. I phylogeny and functional diversity track loss in functional diversity, look at resilience, do trade-offs

6. Understanding processes, to measure biodiversity - Can value-add to sampled red list index Genetic diversity proportional to range(log(range)) Can value add to 2 Can value add to

7. Using the biodiversity measures to look at decision-making processes in the human-environment system

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9. Loss of the world’s corals GBIF, OBIS, and other distribution data suggest that if we could conserve corals, even in just one well-targeted part of the coral triangle, we could avoid worst case of PD losses Entire clades (existing families and genera) fall into IUCN threatened classes Apply phylogenetic risk analysis to a “supertree” for corals Faith et al. 2010

10. House dust communities