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Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts by Gumbs, Rikki, Gray, Claudia L., Böhm, Monika, Hoffmann, Michael, Grenyer, Richard, Jetz, Walter, Meiri, Shai, Roll, Uri, Owen, Nisha R., Rosindell, James

“…Phylogenetic diversity measures are increasingly used in conservation planning to represent aspects of biodiversity beyond that captured by species richness…”
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Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny by Caetano, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira, Chapple, David G, Grenyer, Richard, Raz, Tal, Rosenblatt, Jonathan, Tingley, Reid, Böhm, Monika, Meiri, Shai, Roll, Uri

“…The Red List of Threatened Species, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is a crucial tool for conservation decision-making…”
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Using Wikipedia to measure public interest in biodiversity and conservation by Mittermeier, John C., Correia, Ricardo, Grenyer, Rich, Toivonen, Tuuli, Roll, Uri

“…The recent growth of online big data offers opportunities for rapid and inexpensive measurement of public interest. Conservation culturomics is an emerging…”
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iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights by Jarić, Ivan, Correia, Ricardo A., Brook, Barry W., Buettel, Jessie C., Courchamp, Franck, Di Minin, Enrico, Firth, Josh A., Gaston, Kevin J., Jepson, Paul, Kalinkat, Gregor, Ladle, Richard, Soriano-Redondo, Andrea, Souza, Allan T., Roll, Uri

“…Digital data are accumulating at unprecedented rates. These contain a lot of information about the natural world, some of which can be used to answer key…”
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Combining culturomic sources to uncover trends in popularity and seasonal interest in plants by Vardi, Reut, Mittermeier, John C., Roll, Uri

“…Culturomic tools enable the exploration of trends in human–nature interactions, although they entail inherent biases and necessitate careful validation…”
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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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The global biomass of wild mammals by Greenspoon, Lior, Krieger, Eyal, Sender, Ron, Rosenberg, Yuval, Bar-On, Yinon M, Moran, Uri, Antman, Tomer, Meiri, Shai, Roll, Uri, Noor, Elad, Milo, Ron

“…Wild mammals are icons of conservation efforts, yet there is no rigorous estimate available for their overall global biomass. Biomass as a metric allows us to…”
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Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics by Correia, Ricardo A., Ladle, Richard, Jarić, Ivan, Malhado, Ana C. M., Mittermeier, John C., Roll, Uri, Soriano‐Redondo, Andrea, Veríssimo, Diogo, Fink, Christoph, Hausmann, Anna, Guedes‐Santos, Jhonatan, Vardi, Reut, Di Minin, Enrico

“…Ongoing loss of biological diversity is primarily the result of unsustainable human behavior. Thus, the long‐term success of biodiversity conservation depends…”
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A season for all things: Phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation by Mittermeier, John C, Roll, Uri, Matthews, Thomas J, Grenyer, Richard

“…Phenology plays an important role in many human-nature interactions, but these seasonal patterns are often overlooked in conservation. Here, we provide the…”
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Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change by Mi, Chunrong, Ma, Liang, Yang, Mengyuan, Li, Xinhai, Meiri, Shai, Roll, Uri, Oskyrko, Oleksandra, Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel, Harvey, Lilly P., Jablonski, Daniel, Safaei-Mahroo, Barbod, Ghaffari, Hanyeh, Smid, Jiri, Jarvie, Scott, Kimani, Ronnie Mwangi, Masroor, Rafaqat, Kazemi, Seyed Mahdi, Nneji, Lotanna Micah, Fokoua, Arnaud Marius Tchassem, Tasse Taboue, Geraud C., Bauer, Aaron, Nogueira, Cristiano, Meirte, Danny, Chapple, David G., Das, Indraneil, Grismer, Lee, Avila, Luciano Javier, Ribeiro Júnior, Marco Antônio, Tallowin, Oliver J. S., Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Wagner, Philipp, Ron, Santiago R., Wang, Yuezhao, Itescu, Yuval, Nagy, Zoltán Tamás, Wilcove, David S., Liu, Xuan, Du, Weiguo

“…Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we collated distributional data for >14,000 (~70% of) species of amphibians and…”
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The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation by Roll, Uri, Feldman, Anat, Novosolov, Maria, Allison, Allen, Bauer, Aaron M., Bernard, Rodolphe, Böhm, Monika, Castro-Herrera, Fernando, Chirio, Laurent, Collen, Ben, Colli, Guarino R., Dabool, Lital, Das, Indraneil, Doan, Tiffany M., Grismer, Lee L., Hoogmoed, Marinus, Itescu, Yuval, Kraus, Fred, LeBreton, Matthew, Lewin, Amir, Martins, Marcio, Maza, Erez, Meirte, Danny, Nagy, Zoltán T., de C. Nogueira, Cristiano, Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel, Powney, Gary D., Sindaco, Roberto, Tallowin, Oliver J. S., Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Trape, Jean-François, Vidan, Enav, Uetz, Peter, Wagner, Philipp, Wang, Yuezhao, Orme, C. David L., Grenyer, Richard, Meiri, Shai

“…The distributions of amphibians, birds and mammals have underpinned global and local conservation priorities, and have been fundamental to our understanding of…”
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The phylogeography of Middle Eastern tree frogs in Israel by Surizon, Gal Mesika, Geffen, Eli, Roll, Uri, Gafny, Sarig, Perl, R. G. Bina

“…Western Palearctic treefrogs of the genus Hyla provide an example of a morphologically and ecologically cryptic group. Up to three distinct Hyla species have…”
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Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms by Jarić, Ivan, Roll, Uri, Arlinghaus, Robert, Belmaker, Jonathan, Chen, Yan, China, Victor, Douda, Karel, Essl, Franz, Jähnig, Sonja C, Jeschke, Jonathan M, Kalinkat, Gregor, Kalous, Lukáš, Ladle, Richard, Lennox, Robert J, Rosa, Rui, Sbragaglia, Valerio, Sherren, Kate, Šmejkal, Marek, Soriano-Redondo, Andrea, Souza, Allan T, Wolter, Christian, Correia, Ricardo A

“…The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities. Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the…”
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Adopt digital tools to monitor social dimensions of the global biodiversity framework by Veríssimo, Diogo, Johnson, Thomas F., Millard, Joseph W., Roll, Uri

“…[...]only about 10 countries had comparative data available to evaluate progress toward Aichi Target 1, which focused on awareness of the value of biodiversity…”
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Latitudinal distributions of the species richness, phylogenetic diversity, and functional diversity of fleas and their small mammalian hosts in four geographic quadrants by Krasnov, Boris R., Grabovsky, Vasily I., Khokhlova, Irina S., Fernanda López Berrizbeitia, Maria, Matthee, Sonja, Roll, Uri, Sanchez, Juliana P., Shenbrot, Georgy I., van der Mescht, Luther

“…We studied latitudinal patterns in the species richness (SR), the phylogenetic diversity (PD), and the functional diversity (FD) of fleas and their mammalian…”
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Transience of public attention in conservation science by Jarić, Ivan, Correia, Ricardo A, Bonaiuto, Marino, Brook, Barry W, Courchamp, Franck, Firth, Josh A, Gaston, Kevin J, Heger, Tina, Jeschke, Jonathan M, Ladle, Richard J, Meinard, Yves, Roberts, David L, Sherren, Kate, Soga, Masashi, Soriano‐Redondo, Andrea, Veríssimo, Diogo, Roll, Uri

“…Societal awareness of, and engagement with, environmental problems is a critical prerequisite for effective conservation programs. Research has revealed a…”
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Built for success: Distribution, morphology, ecology and life history of the world's skinks by Chapple, David G., Slavenko, Alex, Tingley, Reid, Farquhar, Jules E., Camaiti, Marco, Roll, Uri, Meiri, Shai

“…In animals, the success of particular lineages can be measured in terms of their number of species, the extent of their geographic range, the breadth of their…”
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Avoiding visitors to a protected area increases predation risk for the endangered mountain gazelle by Zukerman, Yuval, Arnon, Amir, Roll, Uri, Berger‐Tal, Oded

“…People's recreational activities in nature are essential to promote wildlife conservation. The interplay between humans and the environment is complex, as the…”
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Different solutions lead to similar life history traits across the great divides of the amniote tree of life by Meiri, Shai, Murali, Gopal, Zimin, Anna, Shak, Lior, Itescu, Yuval, Caetano, Gabriel, Roll, Uri

“…Abstract Amniote vertebrates share a suite of extra-embryonic membranes that distinguish them from anamniotes. Other than that, however, their reproductive…”
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Bats of a gender flock together: sexual segregation in a subtropical bat by Levin, Eran, Roll, Uri, Dolev, Amit, Yom-Tov, Yoram, Kronfeld-Shcor, Noga

“…Competition has long been assumed to be a major driver in regulating ecological communities. Intra-specific competition is considered to be maximal as members…”
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