Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: prioritising British plant species according to evolutionary distinctiveness, and accuracy and magnitude of decline

Pearse, William D.; Chase, Mark W.; Crawley, Michael J.; Dolphin, Konrad; Fay, Michael F.; Joseph, Jeffrey A.; Powney, Gary; Preston, Chris D.; Rapacciuolo, Giovanni; Roy, David B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331; Purvis, Andy. 2015 Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: prioritising British plant species according to evolutionary distinctiveness, and accuracy and magnitude of decline. PLoS ONE, 10 (5), e0126524. 18, pp. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126524

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Abstract/Summary

Conservation biologists have only finite resources, and so must prioritise some species over others. The EDGE-listing approach ranks species according to their combined evolutionary distinctiveness and degree of threat, but ignores the uncertainty surrounding both threat and evolutionary distinctiveness. We develop a new family of measures for species, which we name EDAM, that incorporates evolutionary distinctiveness, the magnitude of decline, and the accuracy with which decline can be predicted. Further, we show how the method can be extended to explore phyogenetic uncertainty. Using the vascular plants of Britain as a case study, we find that the various EDAM measures emphasise different species and parts of Britain, and that phylogenetic uncertainty can strongly affect the prioritisation scores of some species.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126524
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	UKCEH Fellows Pywell
ISSN:	1932-6203
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	10 Aug 2015 11:05 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511478

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