Biodiverse is a tool for spatial analysis of biodiversity that calculates various biodiversity indices including species richness, endemism, phylogenetic diversity, and beta diversity. It was developed by researchers at UNSW to investigate patterns in Australian plants and animals. Biodiverse allows users to visualize species and phylogeny distributions, calculate biodiversity metrics for areas, cluster areas based on biological similarity, and test significance using randomization procedures. It has been used in studies of Australian flora, frogs, and primates.

1. Biodiverse A tool for spatial analysis of biological and other diversity Dan Rosauer Shawn Laffan June 2010

4. What does Biodiverse do? Species Phylogeny Visualise & Explore Calculate Where is each species found? check data List species in an area Which areas share species Where is each clade found? Which parts of the phylogeny are represented in an area? Species richness Endemism Turnover (beta diversity) Sampling redundancy Phylogenetic diversity Phylogenetic endemism Phylogenetic beta diversity Cluster similar areas Randomise locations Monte Carlo significance tests Extensible: use existing platform to program new analyses

5. Demonstration

7. Sechrest et al 2002 Primates in global biodiversity hotspots Only in hotspots Hotspots & elsewhere Not in hotspots

8. Phylogenetic Endemism - Hylids Rosauer, Laffan, Crisp, Donnellan & Cook (2009) Molecular Ecology Litoria nanotis species group, Litoria dayi . All 5 spp. on the IUCN Red List Litoria andiirrmalin long distinct lineage. Known from tiny range on Cape Melville

9. Clustering on biological similarity

11. Frog Endemism Slatyer, Rosauer & Lemckert (2007) Journal of Biogeography

13. Drawn with DensiTree Bouckaert, R. (2010)

14. Placing confidence intervals on claims about significant areas Mean (solid line) and 95% confidence limits (dotted lines) for phylogenetic endemism from 1000 Bayesian trees. Areas ranking in the top 5% for phylogenetic endemism. Red and pink areas are robust to phylogenetic uncertainty. Cells outside the top 5% are not plotted.