Phylogenies and community ecology

CO Webb, DD Ackerly, MA McPeek… - Annual review of …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

Social organization and parasite risk in mammals: integrating theory and empirical studies

S Altizer, CL Nunn, PH Thrall… - Annual Review of …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Mammals are exposed to a diverse array of parasites and infectious diseases,
many of which affect host survival and reproduction. Species that live in dense populations …

Terrace aware data structure for phylogenomic inference from supermatrices

O Chernomor, A Von Haeseler, BQ Minh - Systematic biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In phylogenomics the analysis of concatenated gene alignments, the so-called supermatrix,
is commonly accompanied by the assumption of partition models. Under such models each …

[LIVRE][B] Modern phylogenetic comparative methods and their application in evolutionary biology: concepts and practice

LZ Garamszegi - 2014 - Springer
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 …

A guide to the mammals of China

AT Smith, D Lunde, RS Hoffmann, Y **e - 2010 - torrossa.com
A Guide to the Mammals of China is an outgrowth of the desire of the Biodiversity Working
Group (BWG) of the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and …

Exploring the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities: an example for rain forest trees

CO Webb - The American Naturalist, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Because of the correlation expected between the phylogenetic relatedness of two taxa and
their net ecological similarity, a measure of the overall phylogenetic relatedness of a …

Predicting extinction risk in declining species

A Purvis, JL Gittleman… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - royalsocietypublishing.org
What biological attributes predispose species to the risk of extinction? There are many
hypotheses but so far there has been no systematic analysis for discriminating between …

Mammals on the EDGE: conservation priorities based on threat and phylogeny

NJB Isaac, ST Turvey, B Collen, C Waterman… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Conservation priority setting based on phylogenetic diversity has frequently been proposed
but rarely implemented. Here, we define a simple index that measures the contribution made …

[LIVRE][B] Mammal teeth: origin, evolution, and diversity

PS Ungar - 2010 - books.google.com
Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

[LIVRE][B] Sex, size and gender roles: evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism

DJ Fairbairn, WU Blanckenhorn, T Székely - 2007 - books.google.com
Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology? Sex,
Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and …