Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much

摘要: In the face of unprecedented global biodiversity loss, conservation planning must balance between refining and deepening knowledge versus acting on current information to preserve species communities. Phylogenetic diversity (PD), a measure that takes into account evolutionary relationships species, is arguably more meaningful than diversity, but cannot yet be applied for majority taxa which phylogenetic trees have not been developed. Here, we investigate how quality data taxonomy and/or phylogeny affects results spatial in terms representation overall mammalian PD. The show better they can serve as basis planning. However, decisions based incomplete are remarkably robust across different levels degrading concerning description new availability information. Thus, given level urgency need action, safely make use best available systematic data, limited these may be.