Publications by authors named "A OE Mooers"

Diversity plays an important role in various domains, including conservation, whether it describes diversity within a population or diversity over a set of species. While various strategies for measuring among-species diversity have emerged (e.g.

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We unified the recent literature with the goal to contribute to the discussion on how genetic diversity might best be conserved. We argue that this decision will be guided by how genomic variation is distributed among manageable populations (i.e.

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We investigated the implications of employing a circular approximation of split systems in the calculation of maximum diversity subsets of a set of taxa in a conservation biology context where diversity is measured using Split System Diversity (SSD). We conducted a comparative analysis between the maximum SSD score and the maximum SSD set(s) of size k, efficiently determined using a circular approximation, and the true results obtained through brute-force search based on the original data. Through experimentation on simulated datasets and SNP data across 50 Atlantic Salmon populations, our findings demonstrate that employing a circular approximation can lead to the generation of an incorrect max-SSD set(s).

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The conservation of evolutionary history has been linked to increased benefits for humanity and can be captured by phylogenetic diversity (PD). The Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) metric has, since 2007, been used to prioritise threatened species for practical conservation that embody large amounts of evolutionary history. While there have been important research advances since 2007, they have not been adopted in practice because of a lack of consensus in the conservation community.

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In the simplest phylogenetic diversification model (the pure-birth Yule process), lineages split independently at a constant rate $\lambda$ for time $t$. The length of a randomly chosen edge (either interior or pendant) in the resulting tree has an expected value that rapidly converges to $\frac{1}{2\lambda}$ as $t$ grows and thus is essentially independent of $t$. However, the behavior of the length $L$ of the longest pendant edge reveals remarkably different behavior: $L$ converges to $t/2$ as the expected number of leaves grows.

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