Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras

Preliminary recovery of coastal sharks in the south-east United States

(2017) Cassidy D Peterson et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Are guitarfishes the next sawfishes? Extinction risk and an urgent call for conservation action

(2017) ABM Moore   Endangered Species Research

Global marine protected areas to prevent extinctions

(2017) Lindsay N. K. Davidson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Coherent assessments of Europe’s marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss

(2017) Paul G. Fernandes et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

(2016) João Filipe Riva Tonini et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rethinking Trade-Driven Extinction Risk in Marine and Terrestrial Megafauna

(2016) Loren McClenachan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity

(2016) S. Weigmann   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Genetic and phenotypic diversity in the wedgefish Rhynchobatus australiae, a threatened ray of high value in the shark fin trade

(2016) JL Giles et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

Genetic and phenotypic diversity in the wedgefish Rhynchobatus australiae, a threatened ray of high value in the shark fin trade

(2016) JL Giles et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Why have global shark and ray landings declined: improved management or overfishing?

(2015) Lindsay N K Davidson et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Australia’s protected area network fails to adequately protect the world’s most threatened marine fishes

(2015) Karen R. Devitt et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes

(2014) Nicholas K. Dulvy et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Equality of Shapley value and fair proportion index in phylogenetic trees

(2014) Michael Fuchs et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution

(2014) Byrappa Venkatesh et al.   NATURE

Measuring Evolutionary Isolation for Conservation

(2014) David W. Redding et al.   PLoS One

Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays

(2014) Nicholas K Dulvy et al.   eLife

Patterns of top-down control in a seagrass ecosystem: could a roving apex predator induce a behaviour-mediated trophic cascade?

(2013) Derek A. Burkholder et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

†Tingitanius tenuimandibulus,a new platyrhinid batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the cretaceous radiation of the Platyrhinidae

(2013) Kerin M. Claeson et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators

(2013) MR Heupel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

(2013) A. Waldron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Nurturing the use of evolutionary diversity in nature conservation

(2013) Dan F. Rosauer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

PASTIS: an R package to facilitate phylogenetic assembly with soft taxonomic inferences

(2013) Gavin H. Thomas et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies

(2012) Stephen A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A DNA Sequence–Based Approach To the Identification of Shark and Ray Species and Its Implications for Global Elasmobranch Diversity and Parasitology

(2012) G. J. P. Naylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

A review of the taxonomy of chondrichthyan fishes: a modern perspective

(2012) W. T. White et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

The equivalence of two phylogenetic biodiversity measures: the Shapley value and Fair Proportion index

(2012) Klaas Hartmann   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

Pruning Rogue Taxa Improves Phylogenetic Accuracy: An Efficient Algorithm and Webservice

(2012) Andre J. Aberer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Improving coarse species distribution data for conservation planning in biodiversity-rich, data-poor, regions: no easy shortcuts

(2011) A. S. L. Rodrigues   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Mapping species richness and human impact drivers to inform global pelagic conservation prioritisation

(2011) Rowan Trebilco et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Does more maternal investment mean a larger brain? Evolutionary relationships between reproductive mode and brain size in chondrichthyans

(2011) Christopher G. Mull et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Body plan convergence in the evolution of skates and rays (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea)

(2011) Neil C. Aschliman et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals

(2011) T. J. Davies et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global Diversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities for Sharks

(2011) Luis O. Lucifora et al.   PLoS One

Global distribution and conservation of marine mammals

(2011) S. Pompa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Branch Lengths on Birth–Death Trees and the Expected Loss of Phylogenetic Diversity

(2011) Arne Mooers et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species

(2011) Loren McClenachan et al.   Conservation Letters

A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies

(2011) Tyler S. Kuhn et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The status of chondrichthyan conservation in the Indo-Australasian region

(2010) W. T. White et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Origin and Phylogeny of the Modern Holocephalans (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes): A Mitogenomic Perspective

(2010) J. G. Inoue et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

(2010) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   NATURE

The Barometer of Life

(2010) S. N. Stuart et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

(2008) GEORGINA M. MACE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Is conservation triage just smart decision making?

(2008) Madeleine C. Bottrill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION