Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs)

Evolutionary structure and timing of major habitat shifts in Crocodylomorpha

(2019) Eric W. Wilberg et al.   Scientific Reports

A new species of Pelodiscus from northeastern Indochina (Testudines, Trionychidae)

(2019) Balázs Farkas et al.   ZooKeys

Spatiotemporal sampling patterns in the 230 million year fossil record of terrestrial crocodylomorphs and their impact on diversity

(2019) Philip D. Mannion et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians

(2019) Pamela González-del-Pliego et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ancient mitogenomics clarifies radiation of extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.)

(2019) Christian Kehlmaier et al.   Scientific Reports

Millennium-old farm breeding of Chinese softshell turtles (Pelodiscus spp.) results in massive erosion of biodiversity

(2018) Shiping Gong et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Tetrapods on the EDGE: Overcoming data limitations to identify phylogenetic conservation priorities

(2018) Rikki Gumbs et al.   PLoS One

Millennium-old farm breeding of Chinese softshell turtles (Pelodiscus spp.) results in massive erosion of biodiversity

(2018) Shiping Gong et al.   Science of Nature

Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification patterns of side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira)

(2018) Gabriel S. Ferreira et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

(2018) Walter Jetz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

CHANGES IN THE DIVERSITY OF TURTLES (TESTUDINATA) IN SOUTH AMERICA FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC TO THE PRESENT

(2018) Evangelos Vlachos et al.   AMEGHINIANA

Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles

(2017) Anieli G. Pereira et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Pulsed evolution shaped modern vertebrate body sizes

(2017) Michael J. Landis 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

Inference of Evolutionary Jumps in Large Phylogenies using Lévy Processes

(2017) Pablo Duchen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity of North American map and sawback turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys )

(2017) Peter Praschag et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

(2017) Uri Roll et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Overcoming data deficiency in reptiles

(2016) Lucie M. Bland et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

Ecological opportunities, habitat, and past climatic fluctuations influenced the diversification of modern turtles

(2016) João Fabrício Mota Rodrigues et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Slow and steady: the evolution of cranial disparity in fossil and recent turtles

(2016) Christian Foth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

Rphylopars: fast multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods for missing data and within-species variation

(2016) Eric W. Goolsby et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

TESS: an R package for efficiently simulating phylogenetic trees and performing Bayesian inference of lineage diversification rates

(2015) Sebastian Höhna et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic Uncertainty and Taxonomic Re-revisions: An Example from the Australian Short-necked Turtles (Testudines: Chelidae)

(2015) Phillip Q. Spinks et al.   COPEIA

Bayesian species delimitation combining multiple genes and traits in a unified framework

(2015) Claudia Solís-Lemus et al.   EVOLUTION

No substitute for real data: A cautionary note on the use of phylogenies from birth-death polytomy resolvers for downstream comparative analyses

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

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

Climate-mediated diversification of turtles in the Cretaceous

(2015) David B. Nicholson et al.   Nature Communications

Building Predictive Models inRUsing thecaretPackage

(2015) Max Kuhn   Journal of Statistical Software

Description of a New Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island

(2015) Nikos Poulakakis et al.   PLoS One

Genetic barcoding facilitates captive and wild management of three cryptic African crocodile species complexes

(2014) M. H. Shirley et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Predicting the conservation status of data-deficient species

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

Cryptic structure and niche divergence within threatened Galápagos giant tortoises from southern Isabela Island

(2014) D. L. Edwards et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Body Size, Extinction Risk and Knowledge Bias in New World Snakes

(2014) Bruno Vilela et al.   PLoS One

A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species

(2014) ALICE PETZOLD et al.   ZOOTAXA

Extending the suite ofbioclimvariables: a proposed registry system and case study using principal components analysis

(2014) Darren J. Kriticos et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Fast simulation of reconstructed phylogenies under global time-dependent birth–death processes

(2013) Sebastian Höhna   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2013) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Misleading phylogenetic inferences based on single-exemplar sampling in the turtle genus Pseudemys

(2013) Phillip Q. Spinks et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Morphological and biomechanical disparity of crocodile-line archosaurs following the end-Triassic extinction

(2013) T. L. Stubbs 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

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

(2012) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in the critically endangered Asian box turtle genus Cuora

(2012) Phillip Q. Spinks et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2012) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Analysis Using Lévy Processes: Finding Jumps in the Evolution of Continuous Traits

(2012) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy

(2012) Matthew K. Fujita et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles

(2011) A. L. Jaffe et al.   Biology Letters

A NOVEL COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SHIFTS IN THE RATE OF CHARACTER EVOLUTION ON TREES

(2011) Jonathan M. Eastman et al.   EVOLUTION

A TIME-CALIBRATED SPECIES TREE OF CROCODYLIA REVEALS A RECENT RADIATION OF THE TRUE CROCODILES

(2011) Jamie R. Oaks   EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogeny of Central and South American slider turtles: implications for biogeography and systematics (Testudines: Emydidae: Trachemys)

(2011) Uwe Fritz et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Validity of Pelodiscus parviformis (Testudines: Trionychidae) Inferred from Molecular and Morphological Analyses

(2011) YANG Ping et al.   Asian Herpetological Research

Body Size Evolution in Mammals: Complexity in Tempo and Mode

(2010) Natalie Cooper et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation

(2010) JOHN J. WIENS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A Global Analysis of Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Distributions with Identification of Priority Conservation Areas

(2010) Kurt A. Buhlmann et al.   CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial phylogeography and subspecies of the wide-ranging sub-Saharan leopard tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis (Testudines: Testudinidae) - a case study for the pitfalls of pseudogenes and GenBank sequences

(2010) Uwe Fritz et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Unravelling the structure of species extinction risk for predictive conservation science

(2010) T. M. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular phylogeny of African hinged and helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelusios and Pelomedusa)

(2010) Uwe Fritz et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Modelling extinction risk in multispecies data sets: phylogenetically independent contrasts versus decision trees

(2009) J. Bielby et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

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

Fourteen nuclear genes provide phylogenetic resolution for difficult nodes in the turtle tree of life

(2009) Anthony J. Barley et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Multiple ecological pathways to extinction in mammals

(2009) A. D. Davidson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sparse Supermatrices for Phylogenetic Inference: Taxonomy, Alignment, Rogue Taxa, and the Phylogeny of Living Turtles

(2009) Robert C. Thomson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

“The Calamity of So Long Life”: Life Histories, Contaminants, and Potential Emerging Threats to Long-lived Vertebrates

(2008) Christopher L. Rowe   BIOSCIENCE

Species-level diversification of African dwarf crocodiles (Genus Osteolaemus): A geographic and phylogenetic perspective

(2008) Mitchell J. Eaton et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change

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

Machine Learning Methods Without Tears: A Primer for Ecologists

(2008) Julian D. Olden et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Is conservation triage just smart decision making?

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