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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Vultures, which are the only obligate vertebrate scavengers, have experienced the most
rapid decline in conservation status of any group of birds over the past decade and comprise …

In this paper, we tested whether the spatial distribution of a given species in more or less
fragmented and disturbed landscapes depends on the species habitat specialization. We …