[Taxacom] Help on a literature reference

[Richard Jensen]

In which case, I would vote for conserving the area with 50 or more 
clades with one or two species each than rather than one clade with 100 
species. Why would we want a world overrun with lobelioids?

Richard Jensen, Professor
Department of Biology
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: 574-284-4674



Thomas G. Lammers wrote:
> At 09:32 AM 3/17/2008, Jody Haynes wrote:
>   
>> That is an interesting concept. Out of curiosity, how does one go about
>> estimating the overall speciation rate of one region compared to another,
>> and is this actual or potential speciation?
>>     
>
> I haven't seen the article in question.  I suspect they are thinking that 
> there's two ways for a region to have high diversity: lots of lineages, or 
> a few lineages that have proliferated there.  For example, the Lobelioideae 
> in Hawaii are well over 100 species but represent a single clade.  That 
> would "count for more" that 100 species representing 50 or more independent 
> clades.
>
>
> Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.
>
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