We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and
population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly …

As climates change across already stressed ecosystems, there is no doubt that species will
be affected, but to what extent and which will be most vulnerable remain uncertain. The …

The evolutionary dynamics underlying the latitudinal gradient in biodiversity have been
controversial for over a century. Using a spatially explicit approach that incorporates not only …

We found that trends in the rate of description of 580,000 marine and terrestrial species, in
the taxonomically authoritative World Register of Marine Species and Catalogue of Life …

To better predict the ecological and evolutionary effects of the emerging biodiversity crisis in
the modern oceans, we compared the association between extinction threat and ecological …

Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …

Palaeodiversity curves are constructed from counts of fossils collected at outcrop and thus
potentially biased by variation in the rock record, specifically by the amount of sedimentary …

Taxa that fail to become incorporated into the fossil record can reveal much about the biases
of this record and provide the information needed to correct such biases in empirical …

The dispersal of primitive elephantines and monodactyl equids in Eurasia has long been
regarded as representative of a substantial turnover in mammal faunas, denoting the spread …

Abstract Waterfleas (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) are among the most successful
invertebrates in current freshwater ecosystems, occupying a wide range of niches …