Search Results - "Silvestro, Daniele"
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sampbias, a method for quantifying geographic sampling biases in species distribution data
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-01-2021)“…Geo‐referenced species occurrences from public databases have become essential to biodiversity research and conservation. However, geographical biases are…”
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Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-05-2015)“…The linking of North and South America by the Isthmus of Panama had major impacts on global climate, oceanic and atmospheric currents, and biodiversity, yet…”
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The rise of angiosperms pushed conifers to decline during global cooling
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-11-2020)“…Competition among species and entire clades can impact species diversification and extinction, which can shape macroevolutionary patterns. The fossil record…”
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Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous
Published in Nature communications (18-05-2022)“…Global diversity patterns in the fossil record comprise a mosaic of regional trends, underpinned by spatially non-random drivers and distorted by variation in…”
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CoordinateCleaner: Standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-05-2019)“…Species occurrence records from online databases are an indispensable resource in ecological, biogeographical and palaeontological research. However, issues…”
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role of clade competition in the diversification of North American canids
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-07-2015)“…The history of biodiversity is characterized by a continual replacement of branches in the tree of life. The rise and demise of these branches (clades) are…”
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Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data
Published in Systematic biology (01-05-2014)“…The temporal dynamics of species diversity are shaped by variations in the rates of speciation and extinction, and there is a long history of inferring these…”
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Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-04-2021)“…The end-Cretaceous event was catastrophic for terrestrial communities worldwide, yet its long-lasting effect on tropical forests remains largely unknown. We…”
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Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa
Published in Ecology letters (01-03-2020)“…While the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems today is evident, it remains unclear if the detrimental effect of hominins on co‐occurring biodiversity is a…”
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Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates
Published in Nature communications (07-12-2018)“…Measuring the pace at which speciation and extinction occur is fundamental to understanding the origin and evolution of biodiversity. Both the fossil record…”
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Clownfishes evolution below and above the species level
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (28-02-2018)“…The difference between rapid morphological evolutionary changes observed in populations and the long periods of stasis detected in the fossil record has raised…”
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DeepDive: estimating global biodiversity patterns through time using deep learning
Published in Nature communications (17-05-2024)“…Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time is a central goal of evolutionary biology. However, estimates of past biodiversity are challenged by…”
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Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record
Published in The New phytologist (01-07-2015)“…Plants have a long evolutionary history, during which mass extinction events dramatically affected Earth's ecosystems and its biodiversity. The fossil record…”
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Characterization of a dynamic metabolon producing the defense compound dhurrin in sorghum
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (18-11-2016)“…Metabolic highways may be orchestrated by the assembly of sequential enzymes into protein complexes, or metabolons, to facilitate efficient channeling of…”
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Estimating Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Diversity Through Deep Learning
Published in Frontiers in plant science (19-04-2022)“…The reliable mapping of species richness is a crucial step for the identification of areas of high conservation priority, alongside other value and threat…”
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Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world’s richest plant biodiversity hotspot
Published in The New phytologist (01-07-2017)“…The Andean mountains of South America are the most species-rich biodiversity hotspot worldwide with c. 15% of the world’s plant species, in only 1% of the…”
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PyRate: a new program to estimate speciation and extinction rates from incomplete fossil data
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-10-2014)“…Summary Despite the advancement of phylogenetic methods to estimate speciation and extinction rates, their power can be limited under variable rates, in…”
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The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity
Published in Science advances (01-09-2020)“…To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human…”
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Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
Published in Scientific reports (06-07-2017)“…Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species…”
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iucn_sim: a new program to simulate future extinctions based on IUCN threat status
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-02-2021)“…The ongoing environmental crisis poses an urgent need to forecast the who, where and when of future species extinctions, as such information is crucial for…”
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