Biases, gaps, and opportunities in mammalian extinction risk research

The Tropical Biodiversity Data Gap: Addressing Disparity in Global Monitoring

(2016) Ben Collen et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Human pressures predict species’ geographic range size better than biological traits

(2015) Moreno Di Marco et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards a general framework for predicting threat status of data-deficient species from phylogenetic, spatial and environmental information

(2015) W. Jetz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas

(2014) E. Hanna et al.   Biology Letters

Predicting the conservation status of data-deficient species

(2014) Lucie M. Bland et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction

(2014) Jurriaan M. De Vos et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Critical-weight-range marsupials in northern Australia are declining: a commentary on Fisheret al. (2014) ‘The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: is history repeating?’

(2014) J. C. Z. Woinarski   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Is conservation research money being spent wisely? Changing trends in conservation research priorities

(2014) J.T. Stroud et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Clarifying the relationship between torpor and anthropogenic extinction risk in mammals

(2014) E. Hanna et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Drivers of extinction risk in African mammals: the interplay of distribution state, human pressure, conservation response and species biology

(2014) M. Di Marco et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatially Explicit Trends in the Global Conservation Status of Vertebrates

(2014) Ana S. L. Rodrigues et al.   PLoS One

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Imputation of missing data in life-history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?

(2014) Caterina Penone et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide

(2014) Wilm Daniel Kissling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Revisiting the impacts of non-random extinction on the tree-of-life

(2013) T. J. Davies et al.   Biology Letters

Threat to the point: improving the value of comparative extinction risk analysis for conservation action

(2013) Kris A. Murray et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Island mammal extinctions are determined by interactive effects of life history, island biogeography and mesopredator suppression

(2013) Emily Hanna et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic correlates of extinction risk in mammals: species in older lineages are not at greater risk

(2013) L. D. Verde Arregoitia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Which intrinsic traits predict vulnerability to extinction depends on the actual threatening processes

(2013) Manuela González-Suárez et al.   Ecosphere

Trends in conservation biology: Progress or procrastination in a new millennium?

(2012) Richard A. Griffiths et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A comparison of current and reconstructed historic geographic range sizes as predictors of extinction risk in Australian mammals

(2012) Emily Hanna et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Variability in life-history and ecological traits is a buffer against extinction in mammals

(2012) Manuela González-Suárez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biases in comparative analyses of extinction risk: mind the gap

(2012) Manuela González-Suárez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals

(2012) A. D. Davidson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identifying Cinderella species: uncovering mammals with conservation flagship appeal

(2012) Robert J. Smith et al.   Conservation Letters

Geographical and taxonomic biases in research on biodiversity in human-modified landscapes

(2012) Morgan J. Trimble et al.   Ecosphere

Mammals of the northern Philippines: tolerance for habitat disturbance and resistance to invasive species in an endemic insular fauna

(2011) Eric A. Rickart et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

The changing fates of the world's mammals

(2011) M. Hoffmann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Future hotspots of terrestrial mammal loss

(2011) P. Visconti et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Are comparative studies of extinction risk useful for conservation?

(2011) Marcel Cardillo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A novel approach for global mammal extinction risk reduction

(2011) Moreno Di Marco et al.   Conservation Letters

Mapping extrinsic traits such as extinction risks or modelled bioclimatic niches on phylogenies: does it make sense at all?

(2010) Philippe Grandcolas et al.   CLADISTICS

Evolutionary Distinctiveness, Threat Status, and Ecological Oddity in Primates

(2010) DAVID W. REDDING et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Integrating species traits with extrinsic threats: closing the gap between predicting and preventing species declines

(2010) K. A. Murray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Primate extinction risk and historical patterns of speciation and extinction in relation to body mass

(2010) L. J. Matthews et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data

(2010) Elizabeth H. Boakes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Lower Extinction Risk in Sleep‐or‐Hide Mammals

(2009) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity

(2009) Navjot S. Sodhi et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Examining the extinction risk of specialized folivores: a comparative study of Colobine monkeys

(2008) Jason M. Kamilar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Why tropical island endemics are acutely susceptible to global change

(2008) Damien A. Fordham et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Cost-effective priorities for global mammal conservation

(2008) J. Carwardine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

(2008) T. J. Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals

(2008) M. Cardillo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES