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Water and Wellbeing
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
Bernd Gruber, Carlos Gonzalez-Orozco, Peter Unmack, Angelica Lopez, Arthur Georges
Institute for Applied
Ecology
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Four questions to be answered
Why?
What?
Where?
How?
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Why?
Human centered arguments
• Well-being is linked to the state of the natural and physical environment
• Ecosystem services de-salinisation, water purification, erosion prevention, pollination, pest control
• Future values medicine, crop resistance
• Recreational values
Environmental centered arguments
• Ecosystem functioning
• Existence/spiritual value
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What? & Where? & How? Recipe 1. Measure biodiversity (or index) 2. Map them across the area 3. Protect identified hotspots
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What? Species diversity / richness as a proxy?
Species groups combined
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What? Phylogenetic diversity Diversity = Amount of branch length in an area
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What? Phylogenetic diversity Diversity = Amount of branch length in an area
Example: Species 2, 8, 6, 10 occur in a cell PD = 28
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What? Phylogenetic diversity
Species groups combined
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What? Based on rarity
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• Species endemism (number of rare species in a cell)
• Phylogenetic endemism (amount of unique branches in a cell)
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Important refugias in the MDB Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
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MDB phylo-geographic regionalisation across multiple taxonomic groups.
The colors represent different phylogenetic bioregions of unique combinations of phylogenetic endemism and diversity across Acacia, eucalypts, plant genera, frogs and fish.
Bioregionalisation in the MDB
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MDB phylo-geographic regionalisation across multiple taxonomic groups.
The colors represent different phylogenetic bioregions of unique combinations of phylogenetic endemism and diversity across Acacia, eucalypts, plant genera, frogs and fish.
Bioregionalisation in the MDB
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
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• Biodiversity and ecosystem services are important for human well-being (why)
• Recent methodological advances allow us to identify important areas of biodiversity within the MDB (what, where and how) taking phylogenetic relationships into account
Summary
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
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Water and Wellbeing
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
Contact Dr Bernd Gruber for more information at [email protected] Or phone (02) 6206 3804
Institute for Applied
Ecology