Specialization is a concept based on a broad theoretical framework developed by
evolutionary biologists and ecologists. In the past 10 years, numerous studies have reported …

Among species, coexistence is driven partly by the partitioning of available resources. The
mechanisms of coexistence and competition among species have been a central topic …

Predicting how species respond to human pressure is essential to anticipate their decline
and identify appropriate conservation strategies. Both human pressure and extinction risk …

Many evolutionary biologists are concerned with the tremendous amount of diversity of
species, and their phenotypes, that we can currently observe in nature, and one of the most …

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 …

Understanding changes in species distributions is essential to disentangle the mechanisms
that drive their responses to anthropogenic habitat modification. Here we analyse the past …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

Although many of the statistical techniques used in comparative biology were originally
developed in quantitative genetics, subsequent development of comparative techniques has …

Aim Raptors serve critical ecological functions, are particularly extinction‐prone and are
often used as environmental indicators and flagship species. Yet, there is no global …

A common procedure in the regression analysis of interspecies data is to first test the
independent and dependent variables X and Y for phylogenetic signal, and then use the …