Rocking Earth's biodiversity cradle: challenges, advances, and prospects for conservation paleontology in the tropics

Extinction biases in Quaternary Caribbean lizards

(2015) Melissa E. Kemp et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Unexpected evolutionary diversity in a recently extinct Caribbean mammal radiation

(2015) S. Brace et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Cryptic function loss in animal populations

(2015) Kim R. McConkey et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Genetic rescue to the rescue

(2015) Andrew R. Whiteley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Limited role of functional differentiation in early diversification of animals

(2015) M.L. Knope et al.   Nature Communications

Fossils reject climate change as the cause of extinction of Caribbean bats

(2015) J. Angel Soto-Centeno et al.   Scientific Reports

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Not Enough Skeletons in the Closet: Collections-Based Anatomical Research in an Age of Conservation Conscience

(2014) Christopher J. Bell et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Ancient DNA and the tropics: a rodent's tale

(2014) T. A. Gutierrez-Garcia et al.   Biology Letters

Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis

(2014) Ross Barnett et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Archaeological Evidence of Validity of Fish Populations on Unexploited Reefs as Proxy Targets for Modern Populations

(2014) KEN LONGENECKER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Extinctions and the loss of ecological function in island bird communities

(2014) Alison G. Boyer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary predictors of mammalian home range size: body mass, diet and the environment

(2014) Marlee A. Tucker et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Quantifying surface-area changes of volcanic islands driven by Pleistocene sea-level cycles: biogeographical implications for the Macaronesian archipelagos

(2014) Kenneth F. Rijsdijk et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Domination by Reptiles in a Terrestrial Food Web of the Bahamas Prior to Human Occupation

(2014) Alexander K. Hastings et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization

(2014) Morten Erik Allentoft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

(2014) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Reversing defaunation: Restoring species in a changing world

(2014) P. J. Seddon et al.   SCIENCE

Using a surviving lineage of Madagascar’s vanished megafauna for ecological restoration

(2013) Miguel Pedrono et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world

(2013) Mauro Galetti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Ethics of Reviving Long Extinct Species

(2013) RONALD SANDLER   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Assessing the Potential to Restore Historic Grazing Ecosystems with Tortoise Ecological Replacements

(2013) CHRISTINE J. GRIFFITHS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Forest bolsters bird abundance, pest control and coffee yield

(2013) Daniel S. Karp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Call for Tiger Management Using "Reserves" of Genetic Diversity

(2013) R. A. Bay et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks

(2013) Torbjörn Säterberg et al.   NATURE

Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse

(2013) Ludovic Orlando et al.   NATURE

Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

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

Giant lizards occupied herbivorous mammalian ecospace during the Paleogene greenhouse in Southeast Asia

(2013) J. J. Head et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

“Mesozoic and Cenozoic lissamphibian and squamate assemblages of Laurasia”—introduction to the special issue

(2013) James D. Gardner et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

(2012) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Paleontology to policy: the Quaternary history of Southeast Asian tapirs (Tapiridae) in relation to large mammal species turnover, with a proposal for conservation of Malayan tapir by reintroduction to Borneo

(2012) Earl of CRANBROOK et al.   Integrative Zoology

Genetic and morphological variability in South American rodent Oecomys (Sigmodontinae, Rodentia): evidence for a complex of species

(2012) C. C. ROSA et al.   JOURNAL OF GENETICS

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

‘Natural experiment’ Demonstrates Top-Down Control of Spiders by Birds on a Landscape Level

(2012) Haldre Rogers et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of ocean acidification on marine seafood

(2012) Trevor A. Branch et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Promoting community-based bird monitoring in the tropics: Conservation, research, environmental education, capacity-building, and local incomes

(2011) Çağan H. Şekercioğlu   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15years after wolf reintroduction

(2011) William J. Ripple et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Resurrecting Extinct Interactions with Extant Substitutes

(2011) Christine J. Griffiths et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

First ancient bovine DNA evidence from India: difficult but not impossible

(2011) Nandita Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Genetic variation over 10 000 years in Ctenomys: comparative phylochronology provides a temporal perspective on rarity, environmental change and demography

(2011) YVONNE L. CHAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Unexpected patterns of fisheries collapse in the world's oceans

(2011) M. L. Pinsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Faunal histories from Holocene ancient DNA

(2011) Mark de Bruyn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Application and comparison of large-scale solution-based DNA capture-enrichment methods on ancient DNA

(2011) María C. Ávila-Arcos et al.   Scientific Reports

Lizards as model organisms for linking phylogeographic and speciation studies

(2010) ARLEY CAMARGO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change

(2010) Jessica L. Blois et al.   NATURE

Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct Giant Shark Megalodon from the Miocene of Panama

(2010) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PLoS One

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

(2009) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

A snake in paradise: Disturbance of plant reproduction following extirpation of bird flower-visitors on Guam

(2008) Hanne Skovgaard Mortensen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes

(2008) Shai Meiri   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Long-term climate record inferred from early-middle Pleistocene amphibian and squamate reptile assemblages at the Gran Dolina Cave, Atapuerca, Spain

(2008) Hugues-Alexandre Blain et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Prehistoric species richness of birds on oceanic islands

(2008) Janet Franklin et al.   OIKOS

The first evidence for the past presence of the tiger Panthera tigris (L.) on the island of Palawan, Philippines: Extinction in an island population

(2008) Philip J. Piper et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate

(2008) Paulo R. Guimarães et al.   PLoS One

Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians

(2008) D. B. Wake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

(2008) C. A. Deutsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate Change, Humans, and the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth

(2008) David Nogués-Bravo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Role of Endangered Species Reintroduction in Ecosystem Restoration: Tortoise–Cactus Interactions on Española Island, Galápagos

(2007) James P. Gibbs et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY