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Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits by FRITZ, SUSANNE A., PURVIS, ANDY

“…The strength of phylogenetic signal in extinction risk can give insight into the mechanisms behind species' declines. Nevertheless, no existing measure of…”
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A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology by Tucker, Caroline M., Cadotte, Marc W., Carvalho, Silvia B., Davies, T. Jonathan, Ferrier, Simon, Fritz, Susanne A., Grenyer, Rich, Helmus, Matthew R., Jin, Lanna S., Mooers, Arne O., Pavoine, Sandrine, Purschke, Oliver, Redding, David W., Rosauer, Dan F., Winter, Marten, Mazel, Florent

“…ABSTRACT The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines,…”
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An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World by Holt, Ben G., Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Borregaard, Michael K., Fritz, Susanne A., Araújo, Miguel B., Dimitrov, Dimitar, Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Graham, Catherine H., Graves, Gary R., Jønsson, Knud A., Nogués-Bravo, David, Wang, Zhiheng, Whittaker, Robert J., Fjeldså, Jon, Rahbek, Carsten

“…Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here,…”
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The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene by Turvey, Samuel T., Fritz, Susanne A.

“…Although the recent historical period is usually treated as a temporal base-line for understanding patterns of mammal extinction, mammalian biodiversity loss…”
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Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics by Fritz, Susanne A, Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R.P, Purvis, Andy

“…Whereas previous studies have investigated correlates of extinction risk either at global or regional scales, our study explicitly models regional effects of…”
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Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras by Weigelt, Patrick, Daniel Kissling, W., Kisel, Yael, Fritz, Susanne A., Karger, Dirk Nikolaus, Kessler, Michael, Lehtonen, Samuli, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Kreft, Holger

“…Islands are ideal for investigating processes that shape species assemblages because they are isolated and have discrete boundaries. Quantifying phylogenetic…”
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Functional and phylogenetic diversity and assemblage structure of frugivorous birds along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes by Dehling, D. Matthias, Fritz, Susanne A., Töpfer, Till, Päckert, Martin, Estler, Patrizia, Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, Schleuning, Matthias

“…Tropical mountains are hotspots of biodiversity, but the factors that generate this high diversity remain poorly understood. To identify possible mechanisms…”
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Global variation in thermal physiology of birds and mammals: evidence for phylogenetic niche conservatism only in the tropics by Khaliq, Imran, Fritz, Susanne A, Prinzinger, Roland, Pfenninger, Markus, Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Hof, Christian

“…AIM: Physiological traits that approximate the fundamental climatic niche – the climatic conditions where a species can survive – are the outcome of adaptation…”
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Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed‐dispersal networks by Schleuning, Matthias, Ingmann, Lili, Strauß, Rouven, Fritz, Susanne A, Dalsgaard, Bo, Matthias Dehling, D, Plein, Michaela, Saavedra, Francisco, Sandel, Brody, Svenning, Jens‐Christian, Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Dormann, Carsten F, Gomez, Jose

“…Modularity is a recurrent and important property of bipartite ecological networks. Although well‐resolved ecological networks describe interaction frequencies…”
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Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information by Meyer, Carsten, Jetz, Walter, Guralnick, Robert P., Fritz, Susanne A., Kreft, Holger

“…Aim: Despite the central role of species distributions in ecology and conservation, occurrence information remains geographically and taxonomically incomplete…”
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What's on the horizon for macroecology? by Beck, Jan, Ballesteros-Mejia, Liliana, Buchmann, Carsten M., Dengler, Jürgen, Fritz, Susanne A., Gruber, Bernd, Hof, Christian, Jansen, Florian, Knapp, Sonja, Kreft, Holger, Schneider, Anne-Kathrin, Winter, Marten, Dormann, Carsten F.

“…Over the last two decades, macroecology — the analysis of large-scale, multi-species ecological patterns and processes — has established itself as a major line…”
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Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the Madagascan vangas by Jønsson, Knud A, Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Fritz, Susanne A, Etienne, Rampal S, Ricklefs, Robert E, Jørgensen, Tobias B, Fjeldså, Jon, Rahbek, Carsten, Ericson, Per G. P, Woog, Friederike, Pasquet, Eric, Irestedt, Martin

“…Adaptive radiation is the rapid diversification of a single lineage into many species that inhabit a variety of environments or use a variety of resources and…”
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A tale of two seasons: The link between seasonal migration and climatic niches in passerine birds by Eyres, Alison, Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Orme, C. David L., Rahbek, Carsten, Fritz, Susanne A.

“…The question of whether migratory birds track a specific climatic niche by seasonal movements has important implications for understanding the evolution of…”
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Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity by Davies, T. Jonathan, Fritz, Susanne A, Grenyer, Richard, Orme, C. David L, Bielby, Jon, Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R.P, Cardillo, Marcel, Jones, Kate E, Gittleman, John L, Mace, Georgina M, Purvis, Andy

“…Phylogenies describe the origins and history of species. However, they can also help to predict species' fates and so can be useful tools for managing the…”
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Correlates of Recent Declines of Rodents in Northern and Southern Australia: Habitat Structure Is Critical by Lawes, Michael J, Fisher, Diana O, Johnson, Chris N, Blomberg, Simon P, Frank, Anke S K, Fritz, Susanne A, McCallum, Hamish, VanDerWal, Jeremy, Abbott, Brett N, Legge, Sarah, Letnic, Mike, Thomas, Colette R, Thurgate, Nikki, Fisher, Alaric, Gordon, Iain J, Kutt, Alex

“…Australia has experienced dramatic declines and extinctions of its native rodent species over the last 200 years, particularly in southern Australia. In the…”
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Global patterns of amphibian phylogenetic diversity by Fritz, Susanne A, Rahbek, Carsten

“…Aim Phylogenetic diversity can provide insight into how evolutionary processes may have shaped contemporary patterns of species richness. Here, we aim to test…”
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Direct and plant‐mediated effects of climate on bird diversity in tropical mountains by Vollstädt, Maximilian G. R., Albrecht, Jörg, Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Hemp, Andreas, Howell, Kim M., Kettering, Laura, Neu, Alexander, Neuschulz, Eike Lena, Quitián, Marta, Santillán, Vinicio E., Töpfer, Till, Schleuning, Matthias, Fritz, Susanne A.

“…Aim Although patterns of biodiversity across the globe are well studied, there is still a controversial debate about the underlying mechanisms and their…”
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Fossil leaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the Cenozoic by Albrecht, Jörg, Wappler, Torsten, Fritz, Susanne A, Schleuning, Matthias

“…Herbivorous arthropods are the most diverse group of multicellular organisms on Earth. The most discussed drivers of their inordinate taxonomic and functional…”
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The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models by Pontarp, Mikael, Bunnefeld, Lynsey, Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, Etienne, Rampal S., Fritz, Susanne A., Gillespie, Rosemary, Graham, Catherine H., Hagen, Oskar, Hartig, Florian, Huang, Shan, Jansson, Roland, Maliet, Odile, Münkemüller, Tamara, Pellissier, Loïc, Rangel, Thiago F., Storch, David, Wiegand, Thorsten, Hurlbert, Allen H.

“…The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most widely studied patterns in ecology, yet no consensus has been reached about its underlying causes…”
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Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity by Antonelli, Alexandre, Kissling, W. Daniel, Flantua, Suzette G. A., Bermúdez, Mauricio A., Mulch, Andreas, Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., Kreft, Holger, Linder, H. Peter, Badgley, Catherine, Fjeldså, Jon, Fritz, Susanne A., Rahbek, Carsten, Herman, Frédéric, Hooghiemstra, Henry, Hoorn, Carina

“…Mountains are key features of the Earth’s surface and host a substantial proportion of the world’s species. However, the links between the evolution and…”
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