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Biodiversity
Why species count is the wrong metric, what genetic and functional diversity actually do, and where conservation efforts are working.
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Why species counts mislead conservation prioritization
Species richness is the easiest biodiversity metric to compute and the worst one to prioritize on. Functional and phylogenetic diversity are what predict ecosystem performance — and they often disagree with the species count.
By Dr. Inés Fournier · 4 min read
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