Methoden vergleichen

	Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity	Populations-Viabilitäts-Analyse
Fachgebiet	Ökologie	Ökologie
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1992	1981
Urheber	David Faith	Mark Shaffer
Typ	evolutionary diversity quantification	extinction risk assessment
Wegweisende Quelle	Faith, D. P. (1992). Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity. Biological Conservation, 61(1), 1-10.	Shaffer, M. L. (1981). Minimum population sizes for species conservation. BioScience, 31(2), 131-134.
Aliasnamen	phylogenetic diversity, PD, evolutionary distinctiveness, branch length	PVA, extinction risk, minimum viable population, MVP
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity (PD), introduced by David Faith (1992), measures the evolutionary diversity within a community by summing the branch lengths of a phylogenetic tree connecting all species. Unlike species richness, which counts species equally regardless of evolutionary relationships, PD weights species by their evolutionary distinctiveness: a community with evolutionarily distant species has higher PD than one dominated by recently diverged species. PD is widely used in conservation to prioritize protection of species and habitats that preserve evolutionary history.	Population Viability Analysis (PVA), introduced by Shaffer (1981), estimates the probability that a population will persist over a given time period under specified conditions. PVA combines demographic models (Leslie matrices, IPMs) with stochastic simulation to project population trajectories, quantifying extinction risk. This allows conservation planners to assess whether a population will likely persist, evaluate management scenarios, and estimate the minimum viable population (MVP) size for long-term persistence. PVA is a decision-support tool, not a precise predictor.