Non-Native Species and Biodiversity Assessment

An upsurge in scientific research aimed at guiding management and conservation of species at risk and/ or rational and sustainable use of water resources. They highlight the importance of understand the natural disturbance regimes, recognizing the scope, scale, and temporal patterns of change. Evolutionary history or phylogeny provides one natural measure of biodiversity through the popular phylogenetic diversity (PD) measure. The evolutionary model underlying PD means that it can be interpreted as quantifying the relative feature diversity of sets of species. Quantifying feature diversity measures possible future uses and benefits or option values. Interpretation of PD as counting-up features is the basis for an emerging broad family of PD calculations, of use to both biodiversity researchers and decision makers. To save species at risk, in fact, we must manage, our protected and other areas, within the framework of ecological integrity and understand that this can only be accomplished in community and regionally acceptable models.