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Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

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(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

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Contrasts in the large herbivore faunas of the southern continents in the late Pleistocene and the ecological implications for human origins

(2013) Norman Owen-Smith   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Why are there so many species in the tropics?

(2013) James H. Brown   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Temporal Change in Functional Richness and Evenness in the Eastern African Plio-Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild

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Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna

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Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

(2013) R. P. Duncan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

(2013) Brody Sandel et al.   Nature Communications

Traits, trees and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals

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Paleoecology and radiocarbon dating of the Pleistocene megafauna of the Brazilian Intertropical Region

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Global Gradients in Vertebrate Diversity Predicted by Historical Area-Productivity Dynamics and Contemporary Environment

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Phylogeny of the Notoungulata (Mammalia) based on cranial and dental characters

(2011) Guillaume Billet   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

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The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene

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Role of mass-kill hunting strategies in the extirpation of Persian gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in the northern Levant

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Rapid evaluation of threats to biodiversity: human footprint score and large vertebrate species responses in French Guiana

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(2010) Diana O. Fisher   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity

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Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

(2009) James Haile et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2008) Matt W. Hayward   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Taxonomic homogenization in ungulates: patterns and mechanisms at local and global scales

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The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge

(2008) J. Schipper et al.   SCIENCE

Modelling the habitat requirements of leopardPanthera pardusin west and central Asia

(2007) Alexander Gavashelishvili et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

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