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Open AccessGlobal priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts
Phylogenetic diversity measures are increasingly used in conservation planning to represent aspects of biodiversity beyond that captured by species richness. Here we develop two new metrics that combine phylog...
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Open AccessConservation prioritization can resolve the flagship species conundrum
Conservation strategies based on charismatic flagship species, such as tigers, lions, and elephants, successfully attract funding from individuals and corporate donors. However, critics of this species-focused...
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Open AccessReply to: “Global conservation of phylogenetic diversity captures more than just functional diversity”
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably
The original version of this Article contained a plotting error in Figure 3g. The Serranidae and Siganidae families were misplaced in the plotted phylogeny. This error has now been corrected in the PDF and HTM...
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Open AccessUnsettling antibiosis: how might interdisciplinary researchers generate a feeling for the microbiome and to what effect?
Decades of active public health messaging about the dangers of pathogenic microbes has led to a Western society dominated by an antibiotic worldview; however recent scientific and social interest in the microb...
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Open AccessAbsence of evidence for the conservation outcomes of systematic conservation planning around the globe: a systematic map
Systematic conservation planning is a discipline concerned with the prioritisation of resources for biodiversity conservation and is often used in the design or assessment of terrestrial and marine protected a...
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Open AccessPrioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably
In the face of the biodiversity crisis, it is argued that we should prioritize species in order to capture high functional diversity (FD). Because species traits often reflect shared evolutionary history, many...
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Author Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation
In the version of this Article originally published, grant no. 2015/20215-7 for C.N. was omitted from the Acknowledgements section. This has now been corrected in all versions of the Article.
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The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation
The distributions of amphibians, birds and mammals have underpinned global and local conservation priorities, and have been fundamental to our understanding of the determinants of global biodiversity. In contr...
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Publisher Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation
In this Article originally published, owing to a technical error, the author ‘Laurent Chirio’ was mistakenly designated as a corresponding author in the HTML version, the PDF was correct. This error has now be...
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Open AccessWhat is the extent and distribution of evidence on effectiveness of systematic conservation planning around the globe? A systematic map protocol
Systematic conservation planning involves the prioritisation of conservation actions to optimise biodiversity conservation outcomes whilst considering implementation challenges such as minimising costs. Thousa...
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Erratum: Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates
Nature 444, 93–96 (2006) 165 mammalian species (from a total of 4,269) listed as ‘data deficient’ by the IUCN were inadvertently omitted from the total and rare species richness values presented. In addition, ...
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Erratum: The delayed rise of present-day mammals
Nature 446, 507–512 (2007) We have discovered a bug in the Perl script relDate v.2.2 that was used in part to date the nodes in the species-level mammalian supertree presented and analysed in our Article. The ...
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Grenyer et al. reply
Replying to: A. S. L. Rodrigues Nature 450, 10.1038/nature06374 (2007)
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The delayed rise of present-day mammals
Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals? Here we construct, date and analyse a...
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Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots
Areas of high species richness, particularly those with high numbers of species unique to that area, seem obvious candidates for conservation action. But this takes little account of the evolutionary potential...
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Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates
'Silver bullet' conservation strategies assume that the distribution of extinction-prone species in one well studied taxonomic group will predict the distribution of comparable species in other groups. This ha...
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Garbage in, Garbage out
As in conventional phylogenetic analyses, issues surrounding the source data are paramount in the supertree construction, but have received insufficient attention. In supertree construction, however, the sourc...
