Species diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas

Real-world conservation planning for evolutionary diversity in the Kimberley, Australia, sidesteps uncertain taxonomy

(2018) Dan F. Rosauer et al.   Conservation Letters

The signature of human pressure history on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods

(2017) Giovanni Rapacciuolo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large conservation gains possible for global biodiversity facets

(2017) Laura J. Pollock et al.   NATURE

Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity

(2017) Fernanda T. Brum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetically informed spatial planning is required to conserve the mammalian tree of life

(2017) Dan F. Rosauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

(2017) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Drivers of Extinction Risk in Terrestrial Vertebrates

(2017) Simon Ducatez et al.   Conservation Letters

AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits

(2017) Brunno Freire Oliveira et al.   Scientific Data

Global determinants of zoogeographical boundaries

(2017) Gentile Francesco Ficetola et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Spatial congruence between taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional hotspots: true pattern or methodological artefact?

(2016) Iker Pardo et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Optimal taxonomic groups for biodiversity assessment: a meta-analytic approach

(2016) Martin J. Westgate et al.   ECOGRAPHY

One taxon does not fit all: Herb-layer diversity and stand structural complexity are weak predictors of biodiversity in Fagus sylvatica forests

(2016) F.M. Sabatini et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Correlates of extinction risk in squamate reptiles: the relative importance of biology, geography, threat and range size

(2016) Monika Böhm et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Time best explains global variation in species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals

(2016) Julie Marin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes

(2016) D. Mouillot et al.   Nature Communications

Integrating data-deficient species in analyses of evolutionary history loss

(2016) Simon Veron et al.   Ecology and Evolution

pez: phylogenetics for the environmental sciences

(2015) William D. Pearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles

(2015) Nathan P. Myhrvold et al.   ECOLOGY

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

(2015) Anat Feldman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mean body sizes of amphibian species are poorly predicted by climate

(2015) Alex Slavenko et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification

(2015) S. Blair Hedges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Spatial mismatch of phylogenetic diversity across three vertebrate groups and protected areas in Europe

(2014) Laure Zupan et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Multifaceted diversity-area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity

(2014) Florent Mazel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

(2013) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets

(2012) Stuart H. M. Butchart et al.   PLoS One

Defining conservation priorities for freshwater fishes according to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) Angela L. Strecker et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

(2011) E. C. Ellis   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much

(2011) A. S. L. Rodrigues et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effectiveness of Biodiversity Surrogates for Conservation Planning: Different Measures of Effectiveness Generate a Kaleidoscope of Variation

(2010) Hedley S. Grantham et al.   PLoS One

Valuing Common Species

(2010) K. J. Gaston   SCIENCE

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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