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Earth and Life Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time / by Talent, John A.

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Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis /

Table of Contents: “…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? …”
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The ethics of species by Sandler, Ronald L.

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Conservation genomics adaptation and gene flow /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Conservation genomics -- Adaptation and gene flow -- Environmental change is ubiquitous -- Selection and evolution -- Genetic variation in large and small populations -- The extinction vortex -- Mutation, selection, and drift in large and small populations -- Purging and genetic load -- Local adaptation -- Genetic rescue vs. outbreeding depression.…”
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