Global wildlife trade across the tree of life

BR Scheffers, BF Oliveira, I Lamb, DP Edwards - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
Wildlife trade is a multibillion dollar industry that is driving species toward extinction. Of>
31,500 terrestrial bird, mammal, amphibian, and squamate reptile species,~ 24%(N= 7638) …

Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals

KJ Olival, PR Hosseini, C Zambrana-Torrelio, N Ross… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate
in wild mammals of particular concern (for example, HIV, Ebola and SARS),,. Understanding …

[كتاب][B] Handbook of trait-based ecology: from theory to R tools

F De Bello, CP Carmona, ATC Dias, L Götzenberger… - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

Moving beyond the guild concept: develo** a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles

NM FOUNTAIN‐JONES, SC Baker… - Ecological …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
1. New logical and analytical frameworks for studying functional traits have led to major
advances in plant and freshwater ecology at local and global scales. The ecological and …

Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest

L Chen, NG Swenson, N Ji, X Mi, H Ren, L Guo, K Ma - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
The mechanisms underlying interspecific variation in conspecific negative density
dependence (CNDD) are poorly understood. Using a multilevel modeling approach, we …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenetic analyses: comparing species to infer adaptations and physiological mechanisms

EL Rezende, JAF Diniz-Filho - Comprehensive Physiology, 2012‏ - researchgate.net
Comparisons among species have been a standard tool in animal physiology to understand
how organisms function and adapt to their surrounding environment. During the last two …

Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity

FT Brum, CH Graham, GC Costa… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - National Acad Sciences
Conservation priorities that are based on species distribution, endemism, and vulnerability
may underrepresent biologically unique species as well as their functional roles and …

Imputation of missing data in life‐history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?

C Penone, AD Davidson, KT Shoemaker… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite efforts in data collection, missing values are commonplace in life‐history trait
databases. Because these values typically are not missing randomly, the common practice …

Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success

J Divíšek, M Chytrý, B Beckage, NJ Gotelli… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The search for traits associated with plant invasiveness has yielded contradictory results, in
part because most previous studies have failed to recognize that different traits are important …

Predicting future invaders and future invasions

A Fournier, C Penone, MG Pennino… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - National Acad Sciences
Invasive alien species are a great threat to biodiversity and human livelihoods worldwide.
The most effective way to limit their impacts and costs is to prevent their introduction into new …