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

The disparity between species description and conservation assessment: A case study in taxa with high rates of species discovery

(2018) Benjamin Tapley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2018) R. William Stein et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’

(2016) Shai Meiri et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Trade in the Helmeted Hornbill Rhinoplax vigil: the ‘ivory hornbill’

(2016) CLAIRE BEASTALL et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Charisma counts: the presence of great apes affects the allocation of research effort in the paleotropics

(2016) Andrew J Marshall et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

(2016) Julie Marin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species discovery and validation in a cryptic radiation of endangered primates: coalescent-based species delimitation in Madagascar's mouse lemurs

(2016) Scott Hotaling et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2016) D. Mouillot et al.   Nature Communications

Setting evolutionary-based conservation priorities for a phylogenetically data-poor taxonomic group (Scleractinia)

(2015) D. J. Curnick et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Priorities for global felid conservation

(2015) Amy J. Dickman et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda

(2015) Binbin V. Li et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: A global analysis of carnivores

(2015) Shan Huang 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

Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification

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

A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach

(2015) Søren Faurby et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

The price of conserving avian phylogenetic diversity: a global prioritization approach

(2015) L. A. Nunes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic diversity, functional trait diversity and extinction: avoiding tipping points and worst-case losses

(2015) D. P. Faith   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conservation, management, and restoration of coral reefs

(2015) Suchana Chavanich et al.   ZOOLOGY

Another Continental Vulture Crisis: Africa's Vultures Collapsing toward Extinction

(2015) Darcy Ogada et al.   Conservation Letters

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

Ranking Mammal Species for Conservation and the Loss of Both Phylogenetic and Trait Diversity

(2015) David W. Redding et al.   PLoS One

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Measuring Evolutionary Isolation for Conservation

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

Averting Lemur Extinctions amid Madagascar's Political Crisis

(2014) C. Schwitzer et al.   SCIENCE

Loss of avian phylogenetic diversity in neotropical agricultural systems

(2014) L. O. Frishkoff et al.   SCIENCE

Biogeographic Analysis Reveals Ancient Continental Vicariance and Recent Oceanic Dispersal in Amphibians

(2014) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic imputation of plant functional trait databases

(2013) Nathan G. Swenson   ECOGRAPHY

Rigorous approaches to species delimitation have significant implications for African crocodilian systematics and conservation

(2013) M. H. Shirley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from the highest mountain in Indochina

(2013) JODI J.L. ROWLEY et al.   ZOOTAXA

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

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

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

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

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

Biology, taxonomy and conservation status of the Short-tailed Green Magpie Cissa [t.] thalassina from Java

(2011) S. (BAS) VAN BALEN et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Investing in evolutionary history: implementing a phylogenetic approach for mammal conservation

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

Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests

(2011) Y. Clough et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies

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

Evolutionary Distinctiveness, Threat Status, and Ecological Oddity in Primates

(2010) DAVID W. REDDING et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

What are we saving? Developing a standardized approach for conservation action

(2009) N. Sitas et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Rockfish (Sebastes) that are evolutionarily isolated are also large, morphologically distinctive and vulnerable to overfishing

(2009) Karen Magnuson-Ford et al.   BIOLOGICAL 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

Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history

(2009) DAN ROSAUER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

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

Flagship species on covers of US conservation and nature magazines

(2008) Barbara Clucas et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Threatened Species and the Potential Loss of Phylogenetic Diversity: Conservation Scenarios Based on Estimated Extinction Probabilities and Phylogenetic Risk Analysis

(2008) DANIEL P. FAITH   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Optimal Allocation of Resources among Threatened Species: a Project Prioritization Protocol

(2008) LIANA N. JOSEPH et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY