Abstract
The current ecological crisis stemming from the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, highlights the urgency of documenting diversity and distribution. Bees are a classical example of an ecologically and economically important group, due to their high diversity and varied ecosystem services, especially pollination. Here, two common biodiversity indices, namely species richness and phylogenetic diversity, are evaluated geographically to determine the best approach for selecting areas of conservation priority. The model organisms used in this study are the North American species belonging to the bee genus Diadasia (Apidae). Based on the results obtained by analyzing distributional records and a molecular phylogeny, we can see that species richness and phylogenetic diversity are closely linked, although phylogenetic diversity provides a more detailed assessment of the spatial distribution of diversity. Therefore, while either one of these commonly used indices are valid as far as selecting areas of conservation priority, we recommend, if possible, to include genetic information in biodiversity and conservation studies.
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The authors acknowledge William H. Clark and Luz Abril Garduño for English language editing and the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable observations and comments on the manuscript. We are also grateful to Eulogio López, Edna Arvizu, Heriberto Murillo, for their help in the sampling effort. We also thank JiJi Foundation for the grant 20200201 to the project “Diversity of Bees of Baja California” and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología for the grant CB2017-2018_A1-S-15134 to FSC and for the master’s scholarship 747190 to Diego de Pedro. Our own samplings were made under the Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales collecting license SGPA/DGVS/11596/17.
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This work was supported by the JiJi Foundation (grant number 20200201, project “Diversity of Bees of Baja California”) and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (grant number CB2017-2018_A1-S-15134 to FSC and master’s scholarship 747190 to DEdP).
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Diego de Pedro and Fadia Sara Ceccarelli contributed to the study conception and design. Data collection and analysis were performed by Diego de Pedro, Fadia Sara Ceccarelli, Rémy Vandame, Jorge Mérida and Philippe Sagot. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Diego de Pedro and Fadia Sara Ceccarelli and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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de Pedro, D., Ceccarelli, F.S., Vandame, R. et al. Congruence between species richness and phylogenetic diversity in North America for the bee genus Diadasia (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Biodivers Conserv 32, 4445–4459 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02706-8
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