bioGENESIS

highlighted points from the annual report

Dan Faith, Tet Yahara

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.

An example of AP-BON activities linked with bioGENESISAn example of AP-BON activities linked with bioGENESIS

Networking Asian forest plotsNetworking Asian forest plotsPilot study in Cambodian plotsPilot study in Cambodian plots

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1998 2000 2004 2010Vatica odorata 24 23 22 7Eugenia spp 12 11 13 5KDCH 22 22 18 4Melodorum fruticosum 8 8 9 4Mastixia pentandra 6 5 6 4Anisoptera costata 12 12 16 3Shorea farinosa 6 6 7 2Dipterocarpus alatus 8 8 6 2KGKG 0 0 0 2Aporusa filicifolia 3 3 3 1Diospyros bejaudi 1 1 3 1Nephelium hypoleucum 3 3 1 1Irvingia malayana 1 1 1 1Moraseae ficus. sp 1 1 1 1Acronychia pedunculata 1 1 1 1Litsea pierrei 0 0 0 1CHDK 0 0 0 1Trema orientalis 0 0 0 1Diospyros crumenata 7 7 6 0Memecylon laevigatum 6 6 5 0Knema corticosa 3 3 3 0Diospyros nitida 3 2 3 0CHKP 3 3 2 0Kayea eugenicefolia 2 2 2 0Xerospermum noronhianum 2 2 2 0Madhuca bejaudi 2 2 2 0UNKN 0 0 2 0Aglaia tetrapetala 5 5 1 0YEAM 2 2 1 0AMCN 1 1 1 0Dehasia cuneata 1 1 1 0

1 1 1 0Diospyros buxifolia 1 1 1 0Shorea guiso 1 1 1 0KCAS 1 1 1 0KNAL 1 1 1 0Lithocarpus cambodiensis 1 1 1 0Sindora cochinchinensis 1 1 1 0KRMN 1 1 1 0Xylopia pierrei 1 1 1 0Canthium didymum 1 1 1 0Microcos tomentosa 1 1 1 0Chaetocarpus castanocarpus 0 0 1 0Wrightia religiosa 0 0 1 0Calophyllum inophylum 3 2 0 0Capparis micracantha 1 1 0 0KRES 1 1 0 0SLAP 1 1 0 0Mangifera duperreana 1 1 0 0

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track loss in functional diversity, look at resilience, do trade-offs

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Understanding processes, to measure biodiversity -

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

Extra slides

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

House dust communities