DNA detected biodiversity in cryptic habitats – phylogenetic diversity

Phylogenetic diversity indices evaluate biological communities from the perspective of the evolutionary interrelationship between species, and thus, help to maximise taxonomic, genetic, or functional diversity conservation effectiveness. Phylogenetic diversity (PD) is an indicator that is pointed out in the recent COP 15 Global Biodiversity Framework to measure biodiversity. This use case aims to improve computation time of the existing pipeline (PhyloNext), to make it a real-time exploration tool. Also, we wish to combine the PhyloNext pipeline with the possibility to feed in some geographic constraints to be able to address specific questions related to prioritisation of nature conservation based on phylogenetic diversity and derived metrics of biodiversity. The poster was first presented at the BioDT Annual Meeting 2023, 13-14 June in Leiden, Netherlands. Learn more