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Water and Wellbeing Conserving biodiversity within the MDB Bernd Gruber, Carlos Gonzalez-Orozco, Peter Unmack, Angelica Lopez, Arthur Georges Institute for Applied Ecology
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Water and Wellbeing
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
Bernd Gruber, Carlos Gonzalez-Orozco, Peter Unmack, Angelica Lopez, Arthur Georges
Institute for Applied
Ecology
Four questions to be answered
Why?
What?
Where?
How?
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
Why?
Human centered arguments
• Well-being is linked to the state of the natural and physical environment
• Ecosystem services de-salinisation, water purification, erosion prevention, pollination, pest control
• Future values medicine, crop resistance
• Recreational values
Environmental centered arguments
• Ecosystem functioning
• Existence/spiritual value
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
What? & Where? & How? Recipe 1. Measure biodiversity (or index) 2. Map them across the area 3. Protect identified hotspots
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
What? Species diversity / richness as a proxy?
Species groups combined
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
What? Phylogenetic diversity Diversity = Amount of branch length in an area
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
What? Phylogenetic diversity Diversity = Amount of branch length in an area
Example: Species 2, 8, 6, 10 occur in a cell PD = 28
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
What? Phylogenetic diversity
Species groups combined
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
What? Based on rarity
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
• Species endemism (number of rare species in a cell)
• Phylogenetic endemism (amount of unique branches in a cell)
Important refugias in the MDB Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
MDB phylo-geographic regionalisation across multiple taxonomic groups.
The colors represent different phylogenetic bioregions of unique combinations of phylogenetic endemism and diversity across Acacia, eucalypts, plant genera, frogs and fish.
Bioregionalisation in the MDB
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
MDB phylo-geographic regionalisation across multiple taxonomic groups.
The colors represent different phylogenetic bioregions of unique combinations of phylogenetic endemism and diversity across Acacia, eucalypts, plant genera, frogs and fish.
Bioregionalisation in the MDB
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services are important for human well-being (why)
• Recent methodological advances allow us to identify important areas of biodiversity within the MDB (what, where and how) taking phylogenetic relationships into account
Summary
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
Water and Wellbeing
Conserving biodiversity within the MDB
Contact Dr Bernd Gruber for more information at [email protected] Or phone (02) 6206 3804
Institute for Applied
Ecology
