Biodiversity and WorldMap

Site plan - Biogeography & Conservation Lab

BIODIVERSITY & WORLDMAP Biogeography & Conservation Lab

1 MEASURING BIODIVERSITY VALUE A note on grids and data Biodiversity value in theory: identifying a fundamental currency of value to people
	1.1 Best estimates: using genealogy to predict genetic or character richness Principles Phylogenetic & taxonomic measures Lack of phylogenetic information Image showing results of species richness measure Image showing results of phylogenetic diversity measure
	1.2 Popular estimates: using species richness Species richness Comparing 'indicator groups' Images building up overlays for butterflies and birds Images showing overlay comparisons among butterflies, birds and dragonflies Images showing overlay comparison of Pinaceae and Fagaceae
	1.3 Practical estimates: using higher taxa or environmental variables as surrogates Higher taxon richness Comparing biological & environmental surrogate maps Image showing plant family richness Image showing overlay comparison between plant family richness and primary productivity
	1.4 Relationship among estimates: a scale of surrogacy for mapping more of biodiversity value at lower cost

2 MEASURING RARITY & ENDEMISM Measuring rarity or endemism from range-size data
	2.1 Discontinuous measures: using thresholds to include only the rarest species
	2.2 Continuous measures: weighting by range size Image showing continuous measures of rarity using equal interval and equal frequency colour scales

3 ASSESSING CONSERVATION PRIORITY & GAP ANALYSIS Values, goals and priorities
	3.1 Area-selection methods Quantitative area-selection methods Hotspots of richness, hotspots of rarity & complementary areas Comparison of hotspots & complementary areas Algorithms for choosing complementary areas
	3.2 A sequential approach to viability and threat Prescription: values and goals Preselection: viability etc. Selection: efficiency Prioritisation: threat etc. Postselection: inter-active exploration of flexibility Reiteration Image showing a map of flexibility for a selected area in west Wales
	3.3 Resolving conflicts 3.4 Applications: CI priority setting workshop

4 DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOGEOGRAPHY Patterns of regional structure in the distribution of organisms Measuring variation in the strength and breadth of transition zones between biotic regions

5 WORLDMAP SOFTWARE (including demo)
	5.1 What is WORLDMAP ? Features WORLDMAP & GIS The grid approach Credits
	5.2 Download free demo System requirements Downloading & installing the demo How to run the demo Details of installation
	5.3 Obtaining tailored software
	5.4 Publications relating to WORLDMAP
	5.5 New info Latest version Recent changes Development history
	5.6 User support Reporting bugs Known problems Future developments
	5.7 Databases & stats packages Data import/export from the database module Screen scores import/export from the map graphics module Image export from the graphics module
	5.8 Links

6 KEY REFERENCES
7 PUBLICATIONS
8 SITE PLAN
9 RELATED SITES

Biogeography & Conservation Lab

The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD UK