This book provides a fast and reliable way of understanding the role of phylogenetic diversity in present biodiversity conservation frame work

It can be very useful for graduate, master and PhD students as it discusses basic questions such as the way we value phylogenetic diversity, gives guidelines for the choice of measures and provides detailed information on new methodological solutions

The examples given here show both that it can be applied to many cases and be very useful to policy makers.

Phylogenetics and conservation biology: drawing a path into the diversity of life.- The value of phylogenetic diversity.- The PD phylogenetic diversity framework: linking evolutionary history to feature diversity for biodiversity conservation.- Reconsidering the loss of evolutionary history: how does non-random extinction prune the tree-of-life?- Phylogenetics and conservation in New Zealand: the long and the short of it.- What is the meaning of extreme phylogenetic diversity? The case of phylogenetic relict species.- Using phylogenetic dissimilarities among sites for biodiversity assessments and conservation.- Phylogenetic diversity measures and their decomposition: a framework based on hill numbers.- Split diversity: measuring and optimizing biodiversity using phylogenetic split networks.- The rarefaction of phylogenetic diversity: formulation, extension and application.- Support in area prioritization using phylogenetic information.- Assessing hotspots of evolutionary history with data from multiple phylogenies: an analysis of endemic clades from New Caledonia.- Representing hotspots of evolutionary history in systematic conservation planning for European mammals.- Priorities for conservation of the evolutionary history of amphibians in the cerrado.- Global spatial analyses of phylogenetic conservation priorities for aquatic mammals.- Metapopulation capacity meets evolutionary distinctness: spatial fragmentation complements phylogenetic rarity in prioritization. - Patterns of species, phylogenetic and mimicry diversity of clearwing butterflies in the Neotropics.- Conservation of phylogenetic diversity in Madagascar's largest endemic plant family, Sarcolaenaceae.- The future of phylogenetic systematics in conservation biology: linking biodiversity and society.