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Filogeografía: aplicaciones en taxonomía y conservación

2009; Natural Science Museum of Barcelona; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.32800/abc.2009.32.0059

2014-928X

D. Domínguez-Domínguez, Eliana Dominguez,

Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Phylogeography: applications in taxonomy and conservation. Phylogeography is defined as the discipline that studies the principles and processes that determine the geographical distribution of genealogical lineages. Two of the study areas where phylogeographic approaches are used more and more frequently are taxonomy and conservation. In this review we first present a general description of phylogeography and then discuss how research in taxonomy and conservation has been addressed when using phylogeographic approaches, emphasising in particular the limitations that need to be considered. We include relevant examples of studies with animals in order to help readers acquire the sense and scope of such applications and select the appropriate study design to meet these objectives.