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Avian Diversity: Speciation, Macroevolution, and Ecological Function by Tobias, Joseph A, Ottenburghs, Jente, Pigot, Alex L

“…The origin, distribution, and function of biological diversity are fundamental themes of ecology and evolutionary biology. Research on birds has played a major…”
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Species interactions constrain geographic range expansion over evolutionary time by Pigot, Alex L., Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Whether biotic interactions limit geographic ranges has long been controversial, and traditional analyses of static distribution patterns have made little…”
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Temporal dynamics of climate change exposure and opportunities for global marine biodiversity by Meyer, Andreas Schwarz, Pigot, Alex L., Merow, Cory, Kaschner, Kristin, Garilao, Cristina, Kesner-Reyes, Kathleen, Trisos, Christopher H.

“…Climate change is exposing marine species to unsuitable temperatures while also creating new thermally suitable habitats of varying persistence. However,…”
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The Shape and Temporal Dynamics of Phylogenetic Trees Arising from Geographic Speciation by Pigot, Alex L., Phillimore, Albert B., Owens, Ian P. F., Orme, C. David L.

“…Phylogenetic trees often depart from the expectations of stochastic models, exhibiting imbalance in diversification among lineages and slowdowns in the rate of…”
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AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their Traits by Sayol, Ferran, Wayman, Joseph P., Dufour, Paul, Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Martínez‐Rubio, Natàlia, Sanglas, Ariadna, Soares, Filipa C., Cooke, Rob, Mendenhall, Chase D., Margolis, Jay R., Illera, Juan Carlos, Lemoine, Rhys, Benavides, Eva, Lapiedra, Oriol, Triantis, Kostas A., Pigot, Alex L., Tobias, Joseph A., Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Thomas J.

“…ABSTRACT Motivation Human activities have been reshaping the natural world for tens of thousands of years, leading to the extinction of hundreds of bird…”
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The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds by Pigot, Alex L., Jetz, Walter, Sheard, Catherine, Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Ecological communities are assembled from the overlapping of species in geographic space, but the mechanisms facilitating or limiting such overlaps are…”
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The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change by Trisos, Christopher H., Merow, Cory, Pigot, Alex L.

“…As anthropogenic climate change continues the risks to biodiversity will increase over time, with future projections indicating that a potentially catastrophic…”
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Speciation and extinction drive the appearance of directional range size evolution in phylogenies and the fossil record by Pigot, Alex L, Owens, Ian P F, Orme, C David L

“…While the geographic range of a species is a fundamental unit of macroecology and a leading predictor of extinction risk, the evolutionary dynamics of species'…”
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Biodiversity: What makes a city bird? by Pigot, Alex L.

“…The impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity varies greatly across species. A new study shows how the intrinsic species properties underlying urban tolerance…”
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Integrating behaviour and ecology into global biodiversity conservation strategies by Tobias, Joseph A, Pigot, Alex L

“…Insights into animal behaviour play an increasingly central role in species-focused conservation practice. However, progress towards incorporating behaviour…”
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Functional traits reveal the expansion and packing of ecological niche space underlying an elevational diversity gradient in passerine birds by Pigot, Alex L., Trisos, Christopher H., Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Variation in species richness across environmental gradients may be associated with an expanded volume or increased packing of ecological niche space. However,…”
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Intensive human land uses negatively affect vertebrate functional diversity by Etard, Adrienne, Pigot, Alex L., Newbold, Tim, Early, Regan

“…Land‐use change is the leading driver of global biodiversity loss thus characterising its impacts on the functional structure of ecological communities is an…”
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Dietary niche and the evolution of cranial morphology in birds by Felice, Ryan N, Tobias, Joseph A, Pigot, Alex L, Goswami, Anjali

“…Cranial morphology in birds is thought to be shaped by adaptive evolution for foraging performance. This understanding of ecomorphological evolution is…”
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A new dynamic null model for phylogenetic community structure by Pigot, Alex L., Etienne, Rampal S.

“…Phylogenies are increasingly applied to identify the mechanisms structuring ecological communities but progress has been hindered by a reliance on statistical…”
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The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity by Sol, Daniel, Trisos, Christopher, Múrria, Cesc, Jeliazkov, Alienor, González‐Lagos, Cesar, Pigot, Alex L., Ricotta, Carlo, Swan, Christopher M., Tobias, Joseph A., Pavoine, Sandrine, Storch, David

“…Urbanisation is driving rapid declines in species richness and abundance worldwide, but the general implications for ecosystem function and services remain…”
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Space-for-time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution by Lovell, Rebecca S L, Collins, Sinead, Martin, Simon H, Pigot, Alex L, Phillimore, Albert B

“…In an epoch of rapid environmental change, understanding and predicting how biodiversity will respond to a changing climate is an urgent challenge. Since we…”
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Dispersal and the transition to sympatry in vertebrates by Pigot, Alex L., Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Under allopatric speciation models, a key step in the build-up of species richness is population dispersal leading to the co-occurrence of previously…”
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Location-level processes drive the establishment of alien bird populations worldwide by Redding, David W., Pigot, Alex L., Dyer, Ellie E., Şekercioğlu, Çağan H., Kark, Salit, Blackburn, Tim M.

“…Human-mediated translocation of species to areas beyond their natural distribution (which results in ‘alien’ populations 1 ) is a key signature of the…”
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Reply to: Spatial scale and the synchrony of ecological disruption by Trisos, Christopher H., Merow, Cory, Pigot, Alex L.

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Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds by Pigot, Alex L., Sheard, Catherine, Miller, Eliot T., Bregman, Tom P., Freeman, Benjamin G., Roll, Uri, Seddon, Nathalie, Trisos, Christopher H., Weeks, Brian C., Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Animals have diversified into a bewildering variety of morphological forms exploiting a complex configuration of trophic niches. Their morphological diversity…”
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