The conservation of evolutionary history has been linked to increased benefits for humanity
and can be captured by phylogenetic diversity (PD). The Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally …

Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

Invasive species threaten biodiversity globally, and invasive mammalian predators are
particularly damaging, having contributed to considerable species decline and extinction …

We review the state of African ungulate taxonomy over the last 120 years, with an emphasis
on the introduction of the polytypic species concept and the discipline's general neglect …

Background Integrated, efficient, and global prioritization approaches are necessary to
manage the ongoing loss of species and their associated function." Evolutionary …

Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their
distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which …

There is little appreciation of the level of extinction risk faced by one‐sixth of the over 65,000
species assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Determining the …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Areas of endemism are important in biogeography because they capture facets of
biodiversity not represented elsewhere. However, the scales at which they are relevant to …

Driven by limited resources and a sense of urgency, the prioritization of species for
conservation has been a persistent concern in conservation science. Gymnosperms …