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Pereira HM, Martins IS, Rosa IMD, Kim H, Leadley P, Popp A, van Vuuren DP, Hurtt G, Quoss L, Arneth A, Baisero D, Bakkenes M, Chaplin-Kramer R, Chini L, Di Marco M, Ferrier S, Fujimori S, Guerra CA, Harfoot M, Harwood TD, Hasegawa T, Haverd V, Havlík P, Hellweg S, Hilbers JP, Hill SLL, Hirata A, Hoskins AJ, Humpenöder F, Janse JH, Jetz W, Johnson JA, Krause A, Leclère D, Matsui T, Meijer JR, Merow C, Obersteiner M, Ohashi H, De Palma A, Poulter B, Purvis A, Quesada B, Rondinini C, Schipper AM, Settele J, Sharp R, Stehfest E, Strassburg BBN, Takahashi K, Talluto MV, Thuiller W, Titeux N, Visconti P, Ware C, Wolf F, Alkemade R. Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050. Science 2024; 384:458-465. [PMID: 38662818 DOI: 10.1126/science.adn3441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024]
Abstract
Based on an extensive model intercomparison, we assessed trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from historical reconstructions and future scenarios of land-use and climate change. During the 20th century, biodiversity declined globally by 2 to 11%, as estimated by a range of indicators. Provisioning ecosystem services increased several fold, and regulating services decreased moderately. Going forward, policies toward sustainability have the potential to slow biodiversity loss resulting from land-use change and the demand for provisioning services while reducing or reversing declines in regulating services. However, negative impacts on biodiversity due to climate change appear poised to increase, particularly in the higher-emissions scenarios. Our assessment identifies remaining modeling uncertainties but also robustly shows that renewed policy efforts are needed to meet the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Henrique M Pereira
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
- BIOPOLIS, CIBIO/InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Vairão 4485-661, Portugal
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
- Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
- Kenvue Portugal, JNTL Consumer Health Ltd, Porto Salvo 2740-262, Portugal
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam 14473, Germany
- Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen D-37213, Germany
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CB, Netherlands
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- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Meteorology and Climate/Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome I-00185, Italy
- KBA Secretariat, BirdLife International, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
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- Global Science, World Wildlife Fund, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
- Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Katsura Campus, Kyoto University, Kyoto-city 615-8540, Japan
- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra 3004-530, Portugal
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
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- CSIRO Environment, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Environmental Change Institute, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
- Ritsumeikan University, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg 2361, Austria
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- Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
- Radboud University, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Nijmegen 6500 GL, Netherlands
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- CSIRO Environment, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- James Cook University, Townsville, 4811 Queensland, Australia
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam 14473, Germany
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
- Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen 6700AB, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Meteorology and Climate/Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Freising 85354, Germany
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg 2361, Austria
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Environmental Change Institute, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg 2361, Austria
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Meteorology and Climate/Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany
- "Interactions Climate-Ecosystems (ICE)" Research Group, Earth System Science Program, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC 63B-48, Colombia
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome I-00185, Italy
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
- Radboud University, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Nijmegen 6500 GL, Netherlands
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems, Halle 06210, Germany
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines, Laguna 4031, Philippines
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- Global Science, World Wildlife Fund, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
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- re.green, Rio de Janeiro 22470-060, Brazil
- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine, Grenoble F-38000, France
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems, Halle 06210, Germany
- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Observatory for Climate, Environment and Biodiversity, Belvaux 4422, Luxembourg
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg 2361, Austria
- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Observatory for Climate, Environment and Biodiversity, Belvaux 4422, Luxembourg
- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London C1E6BT, UK
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
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- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Hague 2500 GH, Netherlands
- Earth System and Global Change Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB Netherlands
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Brodie JF, Mohd-Azlan J, Chen C, Wearn OR, Deith MCM, Ball JGC, Slade EM, Burslem DFRP, Teoh SW, Williams PJ, Nguyen A, Moore JH, Goetz SJ, Burns P, Jantz P, Hakkenberg CR, Kaszta ZM, Cushman S, Coomes D, Helmy OE, Reynolds G, Rodríguez JP, Jetz W, Luskin MS. Author Correction: Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity. Nature 2024; 628:E5. [PMID: 38594342 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07333-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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- Jedediah F Brodie
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia.
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
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- Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Fauna and Flora International-Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
- Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
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- The South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP), Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigation (IVIC) and Provita, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Moura MR, Jetz W. Reply to: Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:641-644. [PMID: 38383852 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02343-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Mario R Moura
- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, Brazil.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Lang N, Jetz W, Schindler K, Wegner JD. Publisher Correction: A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:590. [PMID: 38374187 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02371-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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- Nico Lang
- EcoVision Lab, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- EcoVision Lab, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- EcoVision Lab, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Gumbs R, Scott O, Bates R, Böhm M, Forest F, Gray CL, Hoffmann M, Kane D, Low C, Pearse WD, Pipins S, Tapley B, Turvey ST, Jetz W, Owen NR, Rosindell J. Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1101. [PMID: 38424441 PMCID: PMC10904806 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45119-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Human-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. First, we calculate an index of threat to overall evolutionary history, showing that we expect to lose 86-150 billion years (11-19%) of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history over the next 50-500 years. Second, we rank jawed vertebrate species by their EDGE scores to identify the highest priorities for species-focused conservation of evolutionary history, finding that chondrichthyans, ray-finned fish and testudines rank highest of all jawed vertebrates. Third, we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate families. We found that species within monotypic families are more likely to be threatened and more likely to be in decline than other species. We provide a baseline for the status of families at risk of extinction to catalyse conservation action. This work continues a trend of highlighting neglected groups-such as testudines, crocodylians, amphibians and chondrichthyans-as conservation priorities from a phylogenetic perspective.
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- Rikki Gumbs
- Zoological Society of London, London, NW1 4RY, UK.
- Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
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- Zoological Society of London, London, NW1 4RY, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
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- Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoological Society, Indianapolis, IN, 46222, USA
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK
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- Zoological Society of London, London, NW1 4RY, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
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- Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK
- On the Edge, London, SW3 2JJ, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, NW1 4RY, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
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Brodie JF, Mohd-Azlan J, Chen C, Wearn OR, Deith MCM, Ball JGC, Slade EM, Burslem DFRP, Teoh SW, Williams PJ, Nguyen A, Moore JH, Goetz SJ, Burns P, Jantz P, Hakkenberg CR, Kaszta ZM, Cushman S, Coomes D, Helmy OE, Reynolds G, Rodríguez JP, Jetz W, Luskin MS. Publisher Correction: Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity. Nature 2024; 625:E28. [PMID: 38182924 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-07007-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Jedediah F Brodie
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia.
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
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- Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Fauna and Flora International-Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
- Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
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- The South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP), Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigation (IVIC) and Provita, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Gonzalez A, Vihervaara P, Balvanera P, Bates AE, Bayraktarov E, Bellingham PJ, Bruder A, Campbell J, Catchen MD, Cavender-Bares J, Chase J, Coops N, Costello MJ, Czúcz B, Delavaud A, Dornelas M, Dubois G, Duffy EJ, Eggermont H, Fernandez M, Fernandez N, Ferrier S, Geller GN, Gill M, Gravel D, Guerra CA, Guralnick R, Harfoot M, Hirsch T, Hoban S, Hughes AC, Hugo W, Hunter ME, Isbell F, Jetz W, Juergens N, Kissling WD, Krug CB, Kullberg P, Le Bras Y, Leung B, Londoño-Murcia MC, Lord JM, Loreau M, Luers A, Ma K, MacDonald AJ, Maes J, McGeoch M, Mihoub JB, Millette KL, Molnar Z, Montes E, Mori AS, Muller-Karger FE, Muraoka H, Nakaoka M, Navarro L, Newbold T, Niamir A, Obura D, O'Connor M, Paganini M, Pelletier D, Pereira H, Poisot T, Pollock LJ, Purvis A, Radulovici A, Rocchini D, Roeoesli C, Schaepman M, Schaepman-Strub G, Schmeller DS, Schmiedel U, Schneider FD, Shakya MM, Skidmore A, Skowno AL, Takeuchi Y, Tuanmu MN, Turak E, Turner W, Urban MC, Urbina-Cardona N, Valbuena R, Van de Putte A, van Havre B, Wingate VR, Wright E, Torrelio CZ. Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:2173. [PMID: 37985899 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02263-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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- Andrew Gonzalez
- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico
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- Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- EcoCommons Australia, Research, Specialised and Data Foundations, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Microbiology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Mendrisio, Switzerland
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- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Department of Computer Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
- Guia Marine Lab, MARE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal
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- Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy
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- Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and MarineGEO program, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA
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- Belgian Science Policy Office, Belgian Biodiversity Platform/Biodiversa+, Brussels, Belgium
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Department of Computer Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- CSIRO Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- US Geological Survey, Wetland & Aquatic Research Center, Sirenia Project, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- bioDISCOVERY, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Nature Solutions Unit, Helsinki, Finland
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- Pôle national de données de biodiversité, PatriNat, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station Marine de Concarneau, Concarneau, France
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- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Moulis, France
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- Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia
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- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, Department of Environment and Genetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CP 135, Paris, France
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- The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
- Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
- Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, UK
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Science, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Thematic Center for Systematics and Biodiversity Informatics, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- NSW Department of Environment and Planning, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
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- Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center of Biological Risk and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Departamento de Ecología y Territorio, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Division of Remote Sensing of Forests, Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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- Royal Belgian Institute for Naturalsciences, Brussels, Belgium
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- NZ Department of Conservation, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Sandall EL, Maureaud AA, Guralnick R, McGeoch MA, Sica YV, Rogan MS, Booher DB, Edwards R, Franz N, Ingenloff K, Lucas M, Marsh CJ, McGowan J, Pinkert S, Ranipeta A, Uetz P, Wieczorek J, Jetz W. A globally integrated structure of taxonomy to support biodiversity science and conservation. Trends Ecol Evol 2023; 38:1143-1153. [PMID: 37684131 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 07/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
Abstract
All aspects of biodiversity research, from taxonomy to conservation, rely on data associated with species names. Effective integration of names across multiple fields is paramount and depends on the coordination and organization of taxonomic data. We assess current efforts and find that even key applications for well-studied taxa still lack commonality in taxonomic information required for integration. We identify essential taxonomic elements from our interoperability assessment to support improved access and integration of taxonomic data. A stronger focus on these elements has the potential to involve taxonomic communities in biodiversity science and overcome broken linkages currently limiting research capacity. We encourage a community effort to democratize taxonomic expertise and language in order to facilitate maximum interoperability and integration.
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- Emily L Sandall
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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- Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, Department of Environment and Genetics, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Conservation Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, Durham, NC, USA
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Gonzalez A, Vihervaara P, Balvanera P, Bates AE, Bayraktarov E, Bellingham PJ, Bruder A, Campbell J, Catchen MD, Cavender-Bares J, Chase J, Coops N, Costello MJ, Czúcz B, Delavaud A, Dornelas M, Dubois G, Duffy EJ, Eggermont H, Fernandez M, Fernandez N, Ferrier S, Geller GN, Gill M, Gravel D, Guerra CA, Guralnick R, Harfoot M, Hirsch T, Hoban S, Hughes AC, Hugo W, Hunter ME, Isbell F, Jetz W, Juergens N, Kissling WD, Krug CB, Kullberg P, Le Bras Y, Leung B, Londoño-Murcia MC, Lord JM, Loreau M, Luers A, Ma K, MacDonald AJ, Maes J, McGeoch M, Mihoub JB, Millette KL, Molnar Z, Montes E, Mori AS, Muller-Karger FE, Muraoka H, Nakaoka M, Navarro L, Newbold T, Niamir A, Obura D, O'Connor M, Paganini M, Pelletier D, Pereira H, Poisot T, Pollock LJ, Purvis A, Radulovici A, Rocchini D, Roeoesli C, Schaepman M, Schaepman-Strub G, Schmeller DS, Schmiedel U, Schneider FD, Shakya MM, Skidmore A, Skowno AL, Takeuchi Y, Tuanmu MN, Turak E, Turner W, Urban MC, Urbina-Cardona N, Valbuena R, Van de Putte A, van Havre B, Wingate VR, Wright E, Torrelio CZ. A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:1947-1952. [PMID: 37620553 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02171-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Andrew Gonzalez
- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico
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- Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- EcoCommons Australia, Research, Specialised and Data Foundations, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Microbiology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Mendrisio, Switzerland
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- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Department of Computer Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
- Guia Marine Lab, MARE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal
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- Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy
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- Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and MarineGEO program, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA
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- Belgian Science Policy Office, Belgian Biodiversity Platform/Biodiversa+, Brussels, Belgium
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Department of Computer Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- CSIRO Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- US Geological Survey, Wetland & Aquatic Research Center, Sirenia Project, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- bioDISCOVERY, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Nature Solutions Unit, Helsinki, Finland
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- Pôle national de données de biodiversité, PatriNat, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station Marine de Concarneau, Concarneau, France
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- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Moulis, France
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- Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia
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- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, Department of Environment and Genetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CP 135, Paris, France
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- The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
- Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
- Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, UK
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Science, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Thematic Center for Systematics and Biodiversity Informatics, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- NSW Department of Environment and Planning, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
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- Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center of Biological Risk and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Departamento de Ecología y Territorio, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Division of Remote Sensing of Forests, Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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- Royal Belgian Institute for Naturalsciences, Brussels, Belgium
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- NZ Department of Conservation, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Dorey JB, Fischer EE, Chesshire PR, Nava-Bolaños A, O'Reilly RL, Bossert S, Collins SM, Lichtenberg EM, Tucker EM, Smith-Pardo A, Falcon-Brindis A, Guevara DA, Ribeiro B, de Pedro D, Pickering J, Hung KLJ, Parys KA, McCabe LM, Rogan MS, Minckley RL, Velazco SJE, Griswold T, Zarrillo TA, Jetz W, Sica YV, Orr MC, Guzman LM, Ascher JS, Hughes AC, Cobb NS. A globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow. Sci Data 2023; 10:747. [PMID: 37919303 PMCID: PMC10622554 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02626-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Species occurrence data are foundational for research, conservation, and science communication, but the limited availability and accessibility of reliable data represents a major obstacle, particularly for insects, which face mounting pressures. We present BeeBDC, a new R package, and a global bee occurrence dataset to address this issue. We combined >18.3 million bee occurrence records from multiple public repositories (GBIF, SCAN, iDigBio, USGS, ALA) and smaller datasets, then standardised, flagged, deduplicated, and cleaned the data using the reproducible BeeBDC R-workflow. Specifically, we harmonised species names (following established global taxonomy), country names, and collection dates and, we added record-level flags for a series of potential quality issues. These data are provided in two formats, "cleaned" and "flagged-but-uncleaned". The BeeBDC package with online documentation provides end users the ability to modify filtering parameters to address their research questions. By publishing reproducible R workflows and globally cleaned datasets, we can increase the accessibility and reliability of downstream analyses. This workflow can be implemented for other taxa to support research and conservation.
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- James B Dorey
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Sturt Rd, Bedford Park, 5042, SA, Australia.
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- Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Department of History, King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, S Beaver St, Flagstaff, 86011, AZ, USA
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- Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Boulevard Juriquilla, Jurica La Mesa, Juriquilla, 76230, Querétaro, México
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Sturt Rd, Bedford Park, 5042, SA, Australia
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- Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Dairy Rd, Pullman, 99164-6382, WA, USA
- Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Avenue, Washington, 20560, DC, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Advanced Environmental Research Institute, University of North Texas, W Mulberry St, Denton, 76201, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Advanced Environmental Research Institute, University of North Texas, W Mulberry St, Denton, 76201, TX, USA
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- Biodiversity Outreach Network, W Silver Spruce Ave, Flagstaff, 86001, AZ, USA
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- Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS); Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ); Science and Technology (S&T); Pest Identification Technology laboratory (PITL) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), St. Suite, Sacramento, CA, 95814, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Research and Education Center, University of Kentucky, University Dr, Lexington, KY, 42445, USA
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacionalde Colombia, Bogotá, Cra 45 #268-5, D.C., Colombia
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Av, Esperança, 74690-900, GO, Brazil
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- Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education, Carr. Tijuana-Ensenada, Zona Playitas, 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
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- Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Chesapeake St, Norman, 73019, OK, USA
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- USDA ARS Pollinator Health in Southern Crop Ecosystems Research Unit, Experiment Station Rd, Stoneville, 38776, MS, USA
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- USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects-Research Unit, Old Main Hill, Logan, 84322, UT, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, Prospect St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Prospect St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, 14620, NY, USA
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- Instituto de Biología Subtropical, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina
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- USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects-Research Unit, Old Main Hill, Logan, 84322, UT, USA
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- The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Huntington St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, Prospect St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Prospect St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, Prospect St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Prospect St, New Haven, 06511, CT, USA
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- Entomologie, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein, Stuttgart, 70191, Baden, Württemberg, Germany
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beichen West Road, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Marine and Environmental Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, 90089-0371, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Science Dr, 117558, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam Rd, Lung Fu Shan, Hong Kong
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- Biodiversity Outreach Network, W Silver Spruce Ave, Flagstaff, 86001, AZ, USA
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Schmidt C, Hoban S, Jetz W. Conservation macrogenetics: harnessing genetic data to meet conservation commitments. Trends Genet 2023; 39:816-829. [PMID: 37648576 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2023.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Genetic biodiversity is rapidly gaining attention in global conservation policy. However, for almost all species, conservation relevant, population-level genetic data are lacking, limiting the extent to which genetic diversity can be used for conservation policy and decision-making. Macrogenetics is an emerging discipline that explores the patterns and processes underlying population genetic composition at broad taxonomic and spatial scales by aggregating and reanalyzing thousands of published genetic datasets. Here we argue that focusing macrogenetic tools on conservation needs, or conservation macrogenetics, will enhance decision-making for conservation practice and fill key data gaps for global policy. Conservation macrogenetics provides an empirical basis for better understanding the complexity and resilience of biological systems and, thus, how anthropogenic drivers and policy decisions affect biodiversity.
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- Chloé Schmidt
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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- The Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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The worldwide variation in vegetation height is fundamental to the global carbon cycle and central to the functioning of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Geospatially explicit and, ideally, highly resolved information is required to manage terrestrial ecosystems, mitigate climate change and prevent biodiversity loss. Here we present a comprehensive global canopy height map at 10 m ground sampling distance for the year 2020. We have developed a probabilistic deep learning model that fuses sparse height data from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) space-borne LiDAR mission with dense optical satellite images from Sentinel-2. This model retrieves canopy-top height from Sentinel-2 images anywhere on Earth and quantifies the uncertainty in these estimates. Our approach improves the retrieval of tall canopies with typically high carbon stocks. According to our map, only 5% of the global landmass is covered by trees taller than 30 m. Further, we find that only 34% of these tall canopies are located within protected areas. Thus, the approach can serve ongoing efforts in forest conservation and has the potential to foster advances in climate, carbon and biodiversity modelling.
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- Nico Lang
- EcoVision Lab, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- EcoVision Lab, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- EcoVision Lab, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Ellis-Soto D, Oliver RY, Brum-Bastos V, Demšar U, Jesmer B, Long JA, Cagnacci F, Ossi F, Queiroz N, Hindell M, Kays R, Loretto MC, Mueller T, Patchett R, Sims DW, Tucker MA, Ropert-Coudert Y, Rutz C, Jetz W. A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human-wildlife interactions. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:1362-1372. [PMID: 37550509 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02125-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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As human activities increasingly shape land- and seascapes, understanding human-wildlife interactions is imperative for preserving biodiversity. Habitats are impacted not only by static modifications, such as roads, buildings and other infrastructure, but also by the dynamic movement of people and their vehicles occurring over shorter time scales. Although there is increasing realization that both components of human activity substantially affect wildlife, capturing more dynamic processes in ecological studies has proved challenging. Here we propose a conceptual framework for developing a 'dynamic human footprint' that explicitly incorporates human mobility, providing a key link between anthropogenic stressors and ecological impacts across spatiotemporal scales. Specifically, the dynamic human footprint integrates a range of metrics to fully acknowledge the time-varying nature of human activities and to enable scale-appropriate assessments of their impacts on wildlife behaviour, demography and distributions. We review existing terrestrial and marine human-mobility data products and provide a roadmap for how these could be integrated and extended to enable more comprehensive analyses of human impacts on biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
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- Diego Ellis-Soto
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
- Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw University of Environmental Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Geography & Environment, Centre for Animals on the Move, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Animal Ecology Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
- National Biodiversity Future Center S.C.A.R.L., Palermo, Italy
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- Animal Ecology Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado/BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
- Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Dept Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
- Berchtesgaden National Park, Berchtesgaden, Germany
- Department of Migration, Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt (Main), Germany
- Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK
- Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, La Rochelle Université - CNRS, Villiers en Bois, France
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Brodie JF, Mohd-Azlan J, Chen C, Wearn OR, Deith MCM, Ball JGC, Slade EM, Burslem DFRP, Teoh SW, Williams PJ, Nguyen A, Moore JH, Goetz SJ, Burns P, Jantz P, Hakkenberg CR, Kaszta ZM, Cushman S, Coomes D, Helmy OE, Reynolds G, Rodríguez JP, Jetz W, Luskin MS. Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity. Nature 2023; 620:807-812. [PMID: 37612395 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06410-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas (PAs) to slow biodiversity declines1. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss, their efficacy at preserving animal diversity and their influence on biodiversity in surrounding unprotected areas remain unclear2-5. Unregulated hunting can empty PAs of large animals6, illegal tree felling can degrade habitat quality7, and parks can simply displace disturbances such as logging and hunting to unprotected areas of the landscape8 (a phenomenon called leakage). Alternatively, well-functioning PAs could enhance animal diversity within reserves as well as in nearby unprotected sites9 (an effect called spillover). Here we test whether PAs across mega-diverse Southeast Asia contribute to vertebrate conservation inside and outside their boundaries. Reserves increased all facets of bird diversity. Large reserves were also associated with substantially enhanced mammal diversity in the adjacent unprotected landscape. Rather than PAs generating leakage that deteriorated ecological conditions elsewhere, our results are consistent with PAs inducing spillover that benefits biodiversity in surrounding areas. These findings support the United Nations goal of achieving 30% PA coverage by 2030 by demonstrating that PAs are associated with higher vertebrate diversity both inside their boundaries and in the broader landscape.
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- Jedediah F Brodie
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia.
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
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- Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Fauna and Flora International-Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
- Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
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- The South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP), Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigation (IVIC) and Provita, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Oliver RY, Iannarilli F, Ahumada J, Fegraus E, Flores N, Kays R, Birch T, Ranipeta A, Rogan MS, Sica YV, Jetz W. Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2023; 378:20220232. [PMID: 37246379 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023] Open
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Growing threats to biodiversity demand timely, detailed information on species occurrence, diversity and abundance at large scales. Camera traps (CTs), combined with computer vision models, provide an efficient method to survey species of certain taxa with high spatio-temporal resolution. We test the potential of CTs to close biodiversity knowledge gaps by comparing CT records of terrestrial mammals and birds from the recently released Wildlife Insights platform to publicly available occurrences from many observation types in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. In locations with CTs, we found they sampled a greater number of days (mean = 133 versus 57 days) and documented additional species (mean increase of 1% of expected mammals). For species with CT data, we found CTs provided novel documentation of their ranges (93% of mammals and 48% of birds). Countries with the largest boost in data coverage were in the historically underrepresented southern hemisphere. Although embargoes increase data providers' willingness to share data, they cause a lag in data availability. Our work shows that the continued collection and mobilization of CT data, especially when combined with data sharing that supports attribution and privacy, has the potential to offer a critical lens into biodiversity. This article is part of the theme issue 'Detecting and attributing the causes of biodiversity change: needs, gaps and solutions'.
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- Ruth Y Oliver
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
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- Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
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- Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA
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- Google, LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Skeels A, Boschman LM, McFadden IR, Joyce EM, Hagen O, Jiménez Robles O, Bach W, Boussange V, Keggin T, Jetz W, Pellissier L. Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace's Line. Science 2023; 381:86-92. [PMID: 37410831 DOI: 10.1126/science.adf7122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Faunal turnover in Indo-Australia across Wallace's Line is one of the most recognizable patterns in biogeography and has catalyzed debate about the role of evolutionary and geoclimatic history in biotic interchanges. Here, analysis of more than 20,000 vertebrate species with a model of geoclimate and biological diversification shows that broad precipitation tolerance and dispersal ability were key for exchange across the deep-time precipitation gradient spanning the region. Sundanian (Southeast Asian) lineages evolved in a climate similar to the humid "stepping stones" of Wallacea, facilitating colonization of the Sahulian (Australian) continental shelf. By contrast, Sahulian lineages predominantly evolved in drier conditions, hampering establishment in Sunda and shaping faunal distinctiveness. We demonstrate how the history of adaptation to past environmental conditions shapes asymmetrical colonization and global biogeographic structure.
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- A Skeels
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 80331 Munich, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
- Institute of Biology, École Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Kawahara AY, Storer C, Carvalho APS, Plotkin DM, Condamine FL, Braga MP, Ellis EA, St Laurent RA, Li X, Barve V, Cai L, Earl C, Frandsen PB, Owens HL, Valencia-Montoya WA, Aduse-Poku K, Toussaint EFA, Dexter KM, Doleck T, Markee A, Messcher R, Nguyen YL, Badon JAT, Benítez HA, Braby MF, Buenavente PAC, Chan WP, Collins SC, Rabideau Childers RA, Dankowicz E, Eastwood R, Fric ZF, Gott RJ, Hall JPW, Hallwachs W, Hardy NB, Sipe RLH, Heath A, Hinolan JD, Homziak NT, Hsu YF, Inayoshi Y, Itliong MGA, Janzen DH, Kitching IJ, Kunte K, Lamas G, Landis MJ, Larsen EA, Larsen TB, Leong JV, Lukhtanov V, Maier CA, Martinez JI, Martins DJ, Maruyama K, Maunsell SC, Mega NO, Monastyrskii A, Morais ABB, Müller CJ, Naive MAK, Nielsen G, Padrón PS, Peggie D, Romanowski HP, Sáfián S, Saito M, Schröder S, Shirey V, Soltis D, Soltis P, Sourakov A, Talavera G, Vila R, Vlasanek P, Wang H, Warren AD, Willmott KR, Yago M, Jetz W, Jarzyna MA, Breinholt JW, Espeland M, Ries L, Guralnick RP, Pierce NE, Lohman DJ. A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:903-913. [PMID: 37188966 PMCID: PMC10250192 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking. We sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries and 28 specimen collections, to reconstruct a new phylogenomic tree of butterflies representing 92% of all genera. Our phylogeny has strong support for nearly all nodes and demonstrates that at least 36 butterfly tribes require reclassification. Divergence time analyses imply an origin ~100 million years ago for butterflies and indicate that all but one family were present before the K/Pg extinction event. We aggregated larval host datasets and global distribution records and found that butterflies are likely to have first fed on Fabaceae and originated in what is now the Americas. Soon after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, butterflies crossed Beringia and diversified in the Palaeotropics. Our results also reveal that most butterfly species are specialists that feed on only one larval host plant family. However, generalist butterflies that consume two or more plant families usually feed on closely related plants.
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- Akito Y Kawahara
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (Université de Montpellier), Montpellier, France
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Life and Earth Sciences, Perimeter College, Georgia State University, Decatur, GA, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
- PhD Program in Biology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Animal Biology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Morfometría Evolutiva, Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile
- Millennium Institute Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems (BASE), Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Botany and National Herbarium Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India
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- Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
- Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Karyosystematics, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Vietnam Programme, Fauna & Flora International, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- College of Arts and Sciences, Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Tampilisan, Philippines
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Entomology Laboratory, Museo de Zoología, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Cibinong-Bogor, Indonesia
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- Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary
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- The Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology (Insect Study Division), Setagaya, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB, CSIC-Ajuntament de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Univ. Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- T.G. Masaryk Water Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- RAPiD Genomics, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Biology Department, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
- PhD Program in Biology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
- Entomology Section, National Museum of Natural History, Manila, Philippines.
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Quintero I, Landis MJ, Jetz W, Morlon H. The build-up of the present-day tropical diversity of tetrapods. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2220672120. [PMID: 37159475 PMCID: PMC10194011 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220672120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/11/2023] Open
Abstract
The extraordinary number of species in the tropics when compared to the extra-tropics is probably the most prominent and consistent pattern in biogeography, suggesting that overarching processes regulate this diversity gradient. A major challenge to characterizing which processes are at play relies on quantifying how the frequency and determinants of tropical and extra-tropical speciation, extinction, and dispersal events shaped evolutionary radiations. We address this question by developing and applying spatiotemporal phylogenetic and paleontological models of diversification for tetrapod species incorporating paleoenvironmental variation. Our phylogenetic model results show that area, energy, or species richness did not uniformly affect speciation rates across tetrapods and dispute expectations of a latitudinal gradient in speciation rates. Instead, both neontological and fossil evidence coincide in underscoring the role of extra-tropical extinctions and the outflow of tropical species in shaping biodiversity. These diversification dynamics accurately predict present-day levels of species richness across latitudes and uncover temporal idiosyncrasies but spatial generality across the major tetrapod radiations.
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- Ignacio Quintero
- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Science & Lettres, Paris75005, France
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- Landis Lab, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO63130
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- Jetz Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT06511
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT06511
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- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Science & Lettres, Paris75005, France
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Grigoropoulou A, Hamid SA, Acosta R, Akindele EO, Al‐Shami SA, Altermatt F, Amatulli G, Angeler DG, Arimoro FO, Aroviita J, Astorga‐Roine A, Bastos RC, Bonada N, Boukas N, Brand C, Bremerich V, Bush A, Cai Q, Callisto M, Chen K, Cruz PV, Dangles O, Death R, Deng X, Domínguez E, Dudgeon D, Eriksen TE, Faria APJ, Feio MJ, Fernández‐Aláez C, Floury M, García‐Criado F, García‐Girón J, Graf W, Grönroos M, Haase P, Hamada N, He F, Heino J, Holzenthal R, Huttunen K, Jacobsen D, Jähnig SC, Jetz W, Johnson RK, Juen L, Kalkman V, Kati V, Keke UN, Koroiva R, Kuemmerlen M, Langhans SD, Ligeiro R, Van Looy K, Maasri A, Marchant R, Garcia Marquez JR, Martins RT, Melo AS, Metzeling L, Miserendino ML, Moe SJ, Molineri C, Muotka T, Mustonen K, Mykrä H, Cavalcante do Nascimento JM, Valente‐Neto F, Neu PJ, Nieto C, Pauls SU, Paulson DR, Rios‐Touma B, Rodrigues ME, de Oliveira Roque F, Salazar Salina J, Schmera D, Schmidt‐Kloiber A, Shah D, Simaika JP, Siqueira T, Tachamo‐Shah RD, Theischinger G, Thompson R, Tonkin JD, Torres‐Cambas Y, Townsend C, Turak E, Twardochleb L, Wang B, Yanygina L, Zamora‐Muñoz C, Domisch S. The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. Global Ecol Biogeogr 2023; 32:642-655. [DOI: 10.1111/geb.13648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Afroditi Grigoropoulou
- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
- Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin Berlin Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia Penang Malaysia
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- FEHM‐Lab (Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management), Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Indian River Research and Education Center, IFAS University of Florida Fort Pierce Florida USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
- Department of Aquatic Ecology Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Dübendorf Switzerland
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, EEB Department Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
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- Department of Animal Biology Federal University of Technology Minna Nigeria
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre Oulu Finland
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- Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, CIEP Coyhaique Chile
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- Universidade Federal do Maranhão Codó Brazil
- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação Universidade Federal do Pará Belém Brazil
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- FEHM‐Lab (Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management), Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Department of Biological Applications and Technologies University of Ioannina Ioannina Greece
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- CIEMEP (CONICET‐UNPSJB) Esquel Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco Esquel Argentina
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
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- Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte Brazil
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- Department of Entomology Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea Hainan University Haikou China
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- Laboratório de Biodiversidade e Conservação Universidade Federal de Rondônia – UNIR Rolim de Moura Brazil
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Montpellier, UMR 5175, CNRS, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, IRD Montpellier France
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- Institute of Natural Resources – Ecology Massey University Palmerston North New Zealand
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- Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt Germany
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- Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical‐ CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Yerba Buena Argentina
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- Division of Ecology & Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong China
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação Universidade Federal do Pará Belém Brazil
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- Department Life Sciences, FCTUC, Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Associate Laboratory ARNET University of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
- Univ Lyon Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA Villeurbanne France
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- Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management University of León León Spain
- Geography Research Unit University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Austria
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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- Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt Germany
- Faculty of Biology University of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
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- Geography Research Unit University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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- Department of Entomology University of Minnesota St Paul Minnesota USA
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- Freshwater Biological Section, Department of Biology University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
- Geography Department Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, EEB Department Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação Universidade Federal do Pará Belém Brazil
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- Department of Biological Applications and Technologies University of Ioannina Ioannina Greece
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- Department of Animal Biology Federal University of Technology Minna Nigeria
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- Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB João Pessoa Brazil
- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará Belém Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação Universidade Federal do Pará Belém Brazil
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
- The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia – IB Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
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- CIEMEP (CONICET‐UNPSJB) Esquel Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco Esquel Argentina
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- Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical‐ CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Yerba Buena Argentina
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- Ecology and Genetics Research Unit University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre Oulu Finland
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
- Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará Belém Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas São Paulo Brazil
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- Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical‐ CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Yerba Buena Argentina
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- Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt Germany
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- Slater Museum of Natural History University of Puget Sound Tacoma Washington State USA
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- Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud (BIOMAS) Universidad de Las Américas‐Ecuador Quito Ecuador
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- Departamento de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia Vitória da Conquista Brazil
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- Institute of BioScience Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Mato Grosso do Sul Brazil
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- Departamento de Biología y Geografía, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales Universidad de Oriente Santiago de Cuba Cuba
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- Balaton Limnological Research Institute Tihany Hungary
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- Central Department of Environmental Science Tribhuvan University Kirtipur Nepal
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- Department of Water Resources and Ecosystems IHE Delft Institute for Water Education Delft The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biosciences São Paulo State University (UNESP) Rio Claro Brazil
- School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand
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- Department of Life Sciences and Aquatic Ecology Centre Kathmandu University Dhulikhel Nepal
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- Centre for Applied Water Science University of Canberra Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand
- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand
- Bioprotection Aotearoa Centre of Research Excellence University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Planning and Environment NSW Government Parramatta New South Wales Australia
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- California Department of Water Resources West Sacramento California USA
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- Department of Entomology Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Department of Community and Ecosystem Ecology Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
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Lu M, Jetz W. Scale-sensitivity in the measurement and interpretation of environmental niches. Trends Ecol Evol 2023; 38:554-567. [PMID: 36803985 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
Abstract
Species environmental niches are central to ecology, evolution, and global change research, but their characterization and interpretation depend on the spatial scale (specifically, the spatial grain) of their measurement. We find that the spatial grain of niche measurement is usually uninformed by ecological processes and varies by orders of magnitude. We illustrate the consequences of this variation for the volume, position, and shape of niche estimates, and discuss how it interacts with geographic range size, habitat specialization, and environmental heterogeneity. Spatial grain significantly affects the study of niche breadth, environmental suitability, niche evolution, niche tracking, and climate change effects. These and other fields will benefit from a more mechanism-informed choice of spatial grain and cross-grain evaluations that integrate different data sources.
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- Muyang Lu
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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Gumbs R, Gray CL, Böhm M, Burfield IJ, Couchman OR, Faith DP, Forest F, Hoffmann M, Isaac NJB, Jetz W, Mace GM, Mooers AO, Safi K, Scott O, Steel M, Tucker CM, Pearse WD, Owen NR, Rosindell J. The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3001991. [PMID: 36854036 PMCID: PMC9974121 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
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The conservation of evolutionary history has been linked to increased benefits for humanity and can be captured by phylogenetic diversity (PD). The Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) metric has, since 2007, been used to prioritise threatened species for practical conservation that embody large amounts of evolutionary history. While there have been important research advances since 2007, they have not been adopted in practice because of a lack of consensus in the conservation community. Here, building from an interdisciplinary workshop to update the existing EDGE approach, we present an "EDGE2" protocol that draws on a decade of research and innovation to develop an improved, consistent methodology for prioritising species conservation efforts. Key advances include methods for dealing with uncertainty and accounting for the extinction risk of closely related species. We describe EDGE2 in terms of distinct components to facilitate future revisions to its constituent parts without needing to reconsider the whole. We illustrate EDGE2 by applying it to the world's mammals. As we approach a crossroads for global biodiversity policy, this Consensus View shows how collaboration between academic and applied conservation biologists can guide effective and practical priority-setting to conserve biodiversity.
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- Rikki Gumbs
- Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, London, United Kingdom
- Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
- Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoological Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Migration, Radolfzell, Germany
- University of Konstanz, Department of Biology, Konstanz, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- Biomathematics Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Environment, Ecology and Energy Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
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- Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom
- IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, London, United Kingdom
- On the EDGE Conservation, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Gábor L, Jetz W, Lu M, Rocchini D, Cord A, Malavasi M, Zarzo‐Arias A, Barták V, Moudrý V. Positional errors in species distribution modelling are not overcome by the coarser grains of analysis. Methods Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Lukáš Gábor
- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha – Suchdol Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha – Suchdol Czech Republic
- BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Institute of Geography Technische Universität Dresden Dresden Germany
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha – Suchdol Czech Republic
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha – Suchdol Czech Republic
- Universidad de Oviedo Oviedo Asturias Spain
- Department of Biogeography and Global Change Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN‐CSIC) Madrid Spain
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha – Suchdol Czech Republic
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- Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha – Suchdol Czech Republic
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Kass JM, Guénard B, Dudley KL, Jenkins CN, Azuma F, Fisher BL, Parr CL, Gibb H, Longino JT, Ward PS, Chao A, Lubertazzi D, Weiser M, Jetz W, Guralnick R, Blatrix R, Lauriers JD, Donoso DA, Georgiadis C, Gomez K, Hawkes PG, Johnson RA, Lattke JE, MacGown JA, Mackay W, Robson S, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Economo EP. The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabp9908. [PMID: 35921404 PMCID: PMC9348798 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abp9908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
Abstract
Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their congruences with vertebrates remain largely unknown. We resolve the first high-resolution (~20-km) global diversity map for a major invertebrate clade, ants, using biodiversity informatics, range modeling, and machine learning to synthesize existing knowledge and predict the distribution of undiscovered diversity. We find that ants and different vertebrate groups have distinct features in their patterns of richness and rarity, underscoring the need to consider a diversity of taxa in conservation. However, despite their phylogenetic and physiological divergence, ant distributions are not highly anomalous relative to variation among vertebrate clades. Furthermore, our models predict that rarity centers largely overlap (78%), suggesting that general forces shape endemism patterns across taxa. This raises confidence that conservation of areas important for small-ranged vertebrates will benefit invertebrates while providing a "treasure map" to guide future discovery.
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- Jamie M. Kass
- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Environment and Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK
- Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits 2050, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, and Center for Future Landscapes, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- School of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu 30043, Taiwan
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biology and Geographical Ecology Group, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Section of Zoology–Marine Biology, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou 15772, Greece
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- AfriBugs CC, 341 27th Avenue, Villieria, Pretoria, Gauteng Province 0186, South Africa
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province, South Africa
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 852787-4501, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, CEP 81531-980, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Biodiversity Collections, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA
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- College of Science and Engineering, Central Queensland University, Townsville, QLD 4812, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Skeels A, Bach W, Hagen O, Jetz W, Pellissier L. Temperature-dependent evolutionary speed shapes the evolution of biodiversity patterns across tetrapod radiations. Syst Biol 2022:6637530. [PMID: 35809070 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Biodiversity varies predictably with environmental energy around the globe, but the underlaying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. The evolutionary speed hypothesis predicts that environmental kinetic energy shapes variation in speciation rates through temperature- or life history-dependent rates of evolution. To test whether variation in evolutionary speed can explain the relationship between energy and biodiversity in birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles, we simulated diversification over 65 million years of geological and climatic change with a spatially explicit eco-evolutionary simulation model. We modelled four distinct evolutionary scenarios in which speciation-completion rates were dependent on temperature (M1), life history (M2), temperature and life history (M3), or were independent of temperature and life-history (M0). To assess the agreement between simulated and empirical data, we performed model selection by fitting supervised machine learning models to multidimensional biodiversity patterns. We show that a model with temperature-dependent rates of speciation (M1) consistently had the strongest support. In contrast to statistical inferences, which showed no general relationships between temperature and speciation rates in tetrapods, we demonstrate how process-based modelling can disentangle the causes behind empirical biodiversity patterns. Our study highlights how environmental energy has played a fundamental role in the evolution of biodiversity over deep time.
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- A Skeels
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland
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Pagad S, Bisset S, Genovesi P, Groom Q, Hirsch T, Jetz W, Ranipeta A, Schigel D, Sica YV, McGeoch MA. Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Sci Data 2022; 9:391. [PMID: 35810161 PMCID: PMC9271038 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01514-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
The Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) is a collation of data across 196 individual country checklists of alien species, along with a designation of those species with evidence of impact at a country level. The Compendium provides a baseline for monitoring the distribution and invasion status of all major taxonomic groups, and can be used for the purpose of global analyses of introduced (alien, non-native, exotic) and invasive species (invasive alien species), including regional, single and multi-species taxon assessments and comparisons. It enables exploration of gaps and inferred absences of species across countries, and also provides one means for updating individual GRIIS Checklists. The Country Compendium is, for example, instrumental, along with data on first records of introduction, for assessing and reporting on invasive alien species targets, including for the Convention on Biological Diversity and Sustainable Development Goals. The GRIIS Country Compendium provides a baseline and mechanism for tracking the spread of introduced and invasive alien species across countries globally.Design Type(s) | Data integration objective ● Observation design | Measurement Type(s) | Alien species occurrence ● Evidence of impact invasive alien species assessment objective | Technology Type(s) | Agent expert ● Data collation | Factor Type(s) | Geographic location ● Origin / provenance ● Habitat | Sample Characteristics - Organism | Animalia ● Bacteria ● Chromista ● Fungi ● Plantae ● Protista (Protozoa) ● Viruses | Sample Characteristics - Location | Global countries |
Measurement(s) | Presence of invasive alien species | Technology Type(s) | Literature and datasets | Factor Type(s) | scientificName | Sample Characteristic - Organism | Multitaxon | Sample Characteristic - Environment | Multihabitat | Sample Characteristic - Location | Global |
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- Shyama Pagad
- University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. .,IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Department of Environment and Genetics, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, 3086, Victoria, Australia
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- IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Auckland, New Zealand.,Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome, Italy
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- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Auckland, New Zealand. .,Department of Environment and Genetics, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, 3086, Victoria, Australia.
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How and why lineages evolve along with niche space as they diversify and adapt to different environments is fundamental to evolution. Progress has been hampered by the difficulties of linking a robust empirical characterization of species niches with flexible evolutionary models that describe their evolution. Consequently, the relative influence of abiotic and biotic factors remains poorly understood. Here, we characterize species' two-dimensional temperature and precipitation niche space occupied (i.e. species niche envelope) as complex geometries and assess their evolution across all Aves using a model that captures heterogeneous evolutionary rates on time-calibrated phylogenies. We find that extant birds coevolved from warm, mesic climatic niches into colder and drier environments and responded to the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary with a dramatic increase in disparity. Contrary to expectations of subsiding rates of niche evolution, our results show that overall rates have increased steadily, with some lineages experiencing exceptionally high evolutionary rates, associated with the colonization of novel niche spaces, and others showing niche stasis. Both competition- and environmental change-driven niche evolution transpire and result in highly heterogeneous rates near the present. Our findings highlight the growing ecological and conservation insights arising from the model-based integration of comprehensive environmental and phylogenetic information.
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- Ignacio Quintero
- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS), Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, 75005 Paris, France,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, 695 Charles E. Young Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA,Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 695 Charles E. Young Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Jetz W, Tertitski G, Kays R, Mueller U, Wikelski M. Biological Earth observation with animal sensors: (Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37, 293-298; 2022). Trends Ecol Evol 2022; 37:719-724. [PMID: 35610062 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Marsh CJ, Sica YV, Burgin CJ, Dorman WA, Anderson RC, del Toro Mijares I, Vigneron JG, Barve V, Dombrowik VL, Duong M, Guralnick R, Hart JA, Maypole JK, McCall K, Ranipeta A, Schuerkmann A, Torselli MA, Lacher T, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Sechrest W, Wilson DE, Abba AM, Aguirre LF, Arroyo‐Cabrales J, Astúa D, Baker AM, Braulik G, Braun JK, Brito J, Busher PE, Burneo SF, Camacho MA, Cavallini P, de Almeida Chiquito E, Cook JA, Cserkész T, Csorba G, Cuéllar Soto E, da Cunha Tavares V, Davenport TRB, Deméré T, Denys C, Dickman CR, Eldridge MDB, Fernandez‐Duque E, Francis CM, Frankham G, Franklin WL, Freitas T, Friend JA, Gadsby EL, Garbino GST, Gaubert P, Giannini N, Giarla T, Gilchrist JS, Gongora J, Goodman SM, Gursky‐Doyen S, Hackländer K, Hafner MS, Hawkins M, Helgen KM, Heritage S, Hinckley A, Hintsche S, Holden M, Holekamp KE, Honeycutt RL, Huffman BA, Humle T, Hutterer R, Ibáñez Ulargui C, Jackson SM, Janecka J, Janecka M, Jenkins P, Juškaitis R, Juste J, Kays R, Kilpatrick CW, Kingston T, Koprowski JL, Kryštufek B, Lavery T, Lee TE, Leite YLR, Novaes RLM, Lim BK, Lissovsky A, López‐Antoñanzas R, López‐Baucells A, MacLeod CD, Maisels FG, Mares MA, Marsh H, Mattioli S, Meijaard E, Monadjem A, Morton FB, Musser G, Nadler T, Norris RW, Ojeda A, Ordóñez‐Garza N, Pardiñas UFJ, Patterson BD, Pavan A, Pennay M, Pereira C, Prado J, Queiroz HL, Richardson M, Riley EP, Rossiter SJ, Rubenstein DI, Ruelas D, Salazar‐Bravo J, Schai‐Braun S, Schank CJ, Schwitzer C, Sheeran LK, Shekelle M, Shenbrot G, Soisook P, Solari S, Southgate R, Superina M, Taber AB, Talebi M, Taylor P, Vu Dinh T, Ting N, Tirira DG, Tsang S, Turvey ST, Valdez R, Van Cakenberghe V, Veron G, Wallis J, Wells R, Whittaker D, Williamson EA, Wittemyer G, Woinarski J, Zinner D, Upham NS, Jetz W. Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities. J Biogeogr 2022; 49:979-992. [PMID: 35506011 PMCID: PMC9060555 DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
AIM Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often represent a species' only available distributional information and play an increasing role in conservation assessments and macroecology. We provide global range maps for the native ranges of all extant mammal species harmonised to the taxonomy of the Mammal Diversity Database (MDD) mobilised from two sources, the Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) and the Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World (CMW). LOCATION Global. TAXON All extant mammal species. METHODS Range maps were digitally interpreted, georeferenced, error-checked and subsequently taxonomically aligned between the HMW (6253 species), the CMW (6431 species) and the MDD taxonomies (6362 species). RESULTS Range maps can be evaluated and visualised in an online map browser at Map of Life (mol.org) and accessed for individual or batch download for non-commercial use. MAIN CONCLUSION Expert maps of species' global distributions are limited in their spatial detail and temporal specificity, but form a useful basis for broad-scale characterizations and model-based integration with other data. We provide georeferenced range maps for the native ranges of all extant mammal species as shapefiles, with species-level metadata and source information packaged together in geodatabase format. Across the three taxonomic sources our maps entail, there are 1784 taxonomic name differences compared to the maps currently available on the IUCN Red List website. The expert maps provided here are harmonised to the MDD taxonomic authority and linked to a community of online tools that will enable transparent future updates and version control.
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- Charles J. Marsh
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueNew MexicoUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Florida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Florida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- New York Natural Heritage ProgramState University of New York College of Environmental Science and ForestryAlbanyNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation BiologyTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTexasUSA
- Re:wildAustinTexasUSA
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- National Museum of Natural HistorySmithsonian InstitutionWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE‐UNLP‐CONICET)La Plata, Buenos AiresArgentina
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- Centro de Biodiversidad y GenéticaUniversidad Mayor de San SimónCochabambaBolivia
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- Departamento de ZoologiaUniversidade Federal de PernambucoRecifePernambucoBrazil
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of ScienceQueensland University of TechnologyBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
- Biodiversity and Geosciences ProgramQueensland MuseumBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
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- School of BiologyUniversity of St. AndrewsSt. Andrews, FifeUK
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- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO)QuitoEcuador
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- College of General StudiesBoston UniversityBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Sección Mastozoología, Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesPontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorQuitoEcuador
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- Sección Mastozoología, Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesPontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorQuitoEcuador
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- Museum of Southwestern Biology and Department of BiologyUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueNew MexicoUSA
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- Department of ZoologyHungarian Natural History MuseumBudapestHungary
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- Department of ZoologyHungarian Natural History MuseumBudapestHungary
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- Vale Technological InstituteBelémParáBrazil
- Laboratório de Mamíferos, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, CCEN/DSEUniversidade Federal da ParaíbaJoão PessoaPBBrazil
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- Species Conservation & Science (Africa)Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)ArushaTanzania
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB)Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS)ParisFrance
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental SciencesThe University of SydneySydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Australian Museum Research InstituteAustralian MuseumSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Department of Anthropology and School of the EnvironmentYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Canadian Wildlife ServiceEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaOttawaOntarioCanada
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- Australian Museum Research InstituteAustralian MuseumSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Deparment of Natural Resource Ecology and EnvironmentIowa State UniversityAmesIowaUSA
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- Departamento de GenéticaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulPorto AlegreRio Grande do SulBrazil
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- Department of BiodiversityConservation and AttractionsAlbanyWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité BiologiqueUniversité Toulouse III Paul SabatierToulouseFrance
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- Unidad Ejecutora LilloCONICET ‐ Fundación Miguel LilloSan Miguel de Tucumán, TucumánArgentina
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- Department of BiologySiena CollegeLoudonvilleNew YorkUSA
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- Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of ScienceThe University of SydneySydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural HistoryChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game ManagementUniversity of Natural Resources and Life SciencesWienAustria
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- Museum of Natural ScienceLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLouisianaUSA
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- National Museum of Natural HistorySmithsonian InstitutionWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Australian Museum Research InstituteAustralian MuseumSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Duke Lemur Center, Museum of Natural HistoryDuke UniversityDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of MammalogyAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Integrative BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMichiganUSA
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- Durrell Institute of Conservation and EcologySchool of Anthropology and Conservation, University of KentCanterburyUK
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- Department of Biological SciencesDuquesne UniversityPittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Mammal Group, Vertebrates DivisionDepartment of Life Sciences, The Natural History MuseumLondonUK
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- North Carolina Museum of Natural SciencesRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of Biological SciencesTexas Tech UniversityLubbockTexasUSA
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- Fenner School of Environment and SocietyThe Australian National UniversityActonAustralian Capital TerritoryAustralia
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- Department of BiologyAbilene Christian UniversityAbileneTexasUSA
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- Departamento de Ciências BiológicasUniversidade Federal do Espírito SantoVitóriaEspiríto SantoBrazil
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- Department of Natural HistoryRoyal Ontario MuseumTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISE‐M, UMR 5554, UM/CNRS/IRD/EPHE)MontpellierFrance
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- Wildlife Conservation SocietyGlobal Conservation ProgramNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Faculty of Natural SciencesUniversity of StirlingStirlingUK
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- Division of Tropical Environments and SocietiesCentre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook UniversityTownsvilleQueenslandAustralia
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- Research Unit of Behavioural Ecology, Ethology and Wildlife Management, Department of Life SciencesUniversity of SienaSienaItaly
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- Borneo FuturesBandar Seri BegawanBABrunei Darussalam
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of EswatiniKwaluseniEswatini
- Department of Zoology & Entomology, Mammal Research InstituteUniversity of PretoriaPretoriaSouth Africa
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- Jackson School of GeosciencesUniversity of Texas at AustinAustinTexasUSA
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- Cuc Phuong CommuneNho Quan DistrictNinh BInh, ProvinceVietnam
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- Evolution, Ecology and Organismal BiologyThe Ohio State UniversityLimaOhioUSA
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- Instituto Argentino de Zonas Áridas (IADIZA)‐CCT Mendoza‐CONICETMendozaArgentina
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- Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural HistoryChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- Universidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
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- NSW National Parks and Wildlife ServiceQueanbeyanNew South WalesAustralia
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- Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá – IDSMTeféAmazonasBrazil
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- Department of AnthropologySan Diego State UniversitySan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
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- School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyPrinceton UniversityPrincetonNew JerseyUSA
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- Museo de Historia NaturalUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, LimaLimaPeru
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (ISEM, UMR 5554 CNRS‐IRD‐UM)Université de MontpellierMontpellier Cedex 5France
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- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game ManagementUniversity of Natural Resources and Life SciencesViennaAustria
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- Re:wildAustinTexasUSA
- Department of Geography and the EnvironmentThe University of Texas at AustinAustinTexasUSA
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- Department of Anthropology and Museum StudiesCentral Washington UniversityEllensburgWAUSA
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- Department of AnthropologyWestern Washington UniversityBellinghamWAUSA
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- Mitrani Department of Desert EcologyJacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert ResearchBen‐Gurion University of the NegevMidreshet Ben‐GurionIsrael
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- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History MuseumPrince of Songkhla UniversityHatyai, SongkhlaThailand
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- Instituto de BiologíaUniversidad de AntioquiaMedellínColombia
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- IMBECU, CCT CONICET Mendoza – UNCuyoParque Gral. San MartínMendozaArgentina
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- Forestry DivisionFood and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsRomeItaly
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação da NaturezaDeptartamento de Ciências AmbientaisUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) ‐ Campus Diadema, DiademaSão PauloBrazil
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological ResourcesVietnam Academy of Science and TechnologyHanoiVietnam
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- Department of AnthropologyUniversity of OregonEugeneOregonUSA
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- Department of MammalogyAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation EcologyNew Mexico State UniversityLas CrucesNew MexicoUSA
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- Laboratory for Functional Morphology, Biology DepartmentUniversity of Antwerp, Campus Drie EikenAntwerpen (Wilrijk)Belgium
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRSSorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des AntillesParisFrance
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- Biological Sciences, College of Science and EngineeringFlinders UniversityAdelaideSouth AustraliaAustralia
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- BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in ActionMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMichiganUSA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation BiologyColorado State UniversityFort CollinsColoradoUSA
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- Research Institute for the Environment and LivelihoodsCharles Darwin UniversityCasuarinaNorthern TerritoryAustralia
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- German Primate Center (DPZ)Leibniz Institute for Primate ResearchGöttingenGermany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- School of Life SciencesArizona State UniversityTempeArizonaUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global ChangeYale UniversityNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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Costa-Pereira R, Moll RJ, Jesmer BR, Jetz W. Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges. J Anim Ecol 2022; 91:1334-1344. [PMID: 35388473 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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1. Individual decisions regarding how, why, and when organisms interact with one another and with their environment scale up to shape patterns and processes in communities. Recent evidence has firmly established the prevalence of intraspecific variation in nature and its relevance in community ecology, yet challenges associated with collecting data on large numbers of individual conspecifics and heterospecifics has hampered integration of individual variation into community ecology. 2. Nevertheless, recent technological and statistical advances in GPS-tracking, remote sensing, and behavioral ecology offer a toolbox for integrating intraspecific variation into community processes. More than simply describing where organisms go, movement data provide unique information about interactions and environmental associations from which a true individual-to-community framework can be built. 3. By linking the movement paths of both conspecifics and heterospecifics with environmental data, ecologists can now simultaneously quantify intra- and interspecific variation regarding the Eltonian (biotic interactions) and Grinnellian (environmental conditions) factors underpinning community assemblage and dynamics, yet substantial logistical and analytical challenges must be addressed for these approaches to realize their full potential. 4. Across communities, empirical integration of Eltonian and Grinnellian factors can support conservation applications and reveal metacommunity dynamics via tracking-based dispersal data. As the logistical and analytical challenges associated with multi-species tracking are surmounted, we envision a future where individual movements and their ecological and environmental signatures will bring resolution to many enduring issues in community ecology.
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- Raul Costa-Pereira
- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 56 College Road, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Jetz W, Tertitski G, Kays R, Mueller U, Wikelski M. Biological Earth observation with animal sensors. Trends Ecol Evol 2022; 37:293-298. [PMID: 35263561 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Space-based tracking technology using low-cost miniature tags is now delivering data on fine-scale animal movement at near-global scale. Linked with remotely sensed environmental data, this offers a biological lens on habitat integrity and connectivity for conservation and human health; a global network of animal sentinels of environmental change.
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- Walter Jetz
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Max Planck Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017 Moscow, Russia.
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- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA; Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany.
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- Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany
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- Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany; Max Planck Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany.
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Li R, Ranipeta A, Wilshire J, Malczyk J, Duong M, Guralnick R, Wilson A, Jetz W. A cloud-based toolbox for the versatile environmental annotation of biodiversity data. PLoS Biol 2021; 19:e3001460. [PMID: 34780461 PMCID: PMC8629388 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A vast range of research applications in biodiversity sciences requires integrating primary species, genetic, or ecosystem data with other environmental data. This integration requires a consideration of the spatial and temporal scale appropriate for the data and processes in question. But a versatile and scale flexible environmental annotation of biodiversity data remains constrained by technical hurdles. Existing tools have streamlined the intersection of occurrence records with gridded environmental data but have remained limited in their ability to address a range of spatial and temporal grains, especially for large datasets. We present the Spatiotemporal Observation Annotation Tool (STOAT), a cloud-based toolbox for flexible biodiversity–environment annotations. STOAT is optimized for large biodiversity datasets and allows user-specified spatial and temporal resolution and buffering in support of environmental characterizations that account for the uncertainty and scale of data and of relevant processes. The tool offers these services for a growing set of near global, remotely sensed, or modeled environmental data, including Landsat, MODIS, EarthEnv, and CHELSA. STOAT includes a user-friendly, web-based dashboard that provides tools for annotation task management and result visualization, linked to Map of Life, and a dedicated R package (rstoat) for programmatic access. We demonstrate STOAT functionality with several examples that illustrate phenological variation and spatial and temporal scale dependence of environmental characteristics of birds at a continental scale. We expect STOAT to facilitate broader exploration and assessment of the scale dependence of observations and processes in ecology. In ecology and evolution, processes, data collection, and inference or prediction usually occur at different scales in space and time. This study introduces a cloud-based toolbox for the flexible fusion of biodiversity records with remotely sensed and other environmental information that supports an assessment and accounting of such scale dependencies.
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- Richard Li
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Descartes Labs, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepaschenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams VM, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P. Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:1499-1509. [PMID: 34429536 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how multiple targets can be pursued concurrently. To support goal setting and the implementation of international strategies and action plans, spatial guidance is needed to identify which land areas have the potential to generate the greatest synergies between conserving biodiversity and nature's contributions to people. Here we present results from a joint optimization that minimizes the number of threatened species, maximizes carbon retention and water quality regulation, and ranks terrestrial conservation priorities globally. We found that selecting the top-ranked 30% and 50% of terrestrial land area would conserve respectively 60.7% and 85.3% of the estimated total carbon stock and 66% and 89.8% of all clean water, in addition to meeting conservation targets for 57.9% and 79% of all species considered. Our data and prioritization further suggest that adequately conserving all species considered (vertebrates and plants) would require giving conservation attention to ~70% of the terrestrial land surface. If priority was given to biodiversity only, managing 30% of optimally located land area for conservation may be sufficient to meet conservation targets for 81.3% of the terrestrial plant and vertebrate species considered. Our results provide a global assessment of where land could be optimally managed for conservation. We discuss how such a spatial prioritization framework can support the implementation of the biodiversity and climate conventions.
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- Martin Jung
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, USA
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmondy, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Cambio Global UC, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.,Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Valparaíso, Chile
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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Upham NS, Esselstyn JA, Jetz W. Molecules and fossils tell distinct yet complementary stories of mammal diversification. Curr Biol 2021; 31:4195-4206.e3. [PMID: 34329589 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Reconstructing the tempo at which biodiversity arose is a fundamental goal of evolutionary biologists, yet the relative merits of evolutionary-rate estimates are debated based on whether they are derived from the fossil record or time-calibrated phylogenies (timetrees) of living species. Extinct lineages unsampled in timetrees are known to "pull" speciation rates downward, but the temporal scale at which this bias matters is unclear. To investigate this problem, we compare mammalian diversification-rate signatures in a credible set of molecular timetrees (n = 5,911 species, ∼70% from DNA) to those in fossil genus durations (n = 5,320). We use fossil extinction rates to correct or "push" the timetree-based (pulled) speciation-rate estimates, finding a surge of speciation during the Paleocene (∼66-56 million years ago, Ma) between the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). However, about two-thirds of the K-Pg-to-PETM originating taxa did not leave modern descendants, indicating that this rate signature is likely undetectable from extant lineages alone. For groups without substantial fossil records, thankfully all is not lost. Pushed and pulled speciation rates converge starting ∼10 Ma and are equal at the present day when recent evolutionary processes can be estimated without bias using species-specific "tip" rates of speciation. Clade-wide moments of tip rates also enable enriched inference, as the skewness of tip rates is shown to approximate a clade's extent of past diversification-rate shifts. Molecular timetrees need fossil-correction to address deep-time questions, but they are sufficient for shallower time questions where extinctions are fewer.
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- Nathan S Upham
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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- Muyang Lu
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven CT USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change Yale University New Haven CT USA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven CT USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change Yale University New Haven CT USA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven CT USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change Yale University New Haven CT USA
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Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepaschenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams VM, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P. Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:1557. [PMID: 34556831 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01569-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Martin Jung
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, USA
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmondy, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Cambio Global UC, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.,Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Valparaíso, Chile
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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Greenberg DA, Pyron RA, Johnson LGW, Upham NS, Jetz W, Mooers AØ. Evolutionary legacies in contemporary tetrapod imperilment. Ecol Lett 2021; 24:2464-2476. [PMID: 34510687 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Revised: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The Tree of Life will be irrevocably reshaped as anthropogenic extinctions continue to unfold. Theory suggests that lineage evolutionary dynamics, such as age since origination, historical extinction filters and speciation rates, have influenced ancient extinction patterns - but whether these factors also contribute to modern extinction risk is largely unknown. We examine evolutionary legacies in contemporary extinction risk for over 4000 genera, representing ~30,000 species, from the major tetrapod groups: amphibians, birds, turtles and crocodiles, squamate reptiles and mammals. We find consistent support for the hypothesis that extinction risk is elevated in lineages with higher recent speciation rates. We subsequently test, and find modest support for, a primary mechanism driving this pattern: that rapidly diversifying clades predominantly comprise range-restricted, and extinction-prone, species. These evolutionary patterns in current imperilment may have important consequences for how we manage the erosion of biological diversity across the Tree of Life.
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- Dan A Greenberg
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Individual variation is increasingly recognized as a central component of ecological processes, but its role in structuring environmental niche associations remains largely unknown. Species' responses to environmental conditions are ultimately determined by the niches of single individuals, yet environmental associations are typically captured only at the level of species. Here, we develop scenarios for how individual variation may combine to define the compound environmental niche of populations, use extensive movement data to document individual environmental niche variation, test associated hypotheses of niche configuration, and examine the consistency of individual niches over time. For 45 individual white storks (Ciconia ciconia; 116 individual-year combinations), we uncover high variability in individual environmental associations, consistency of individual niches over time, and moderate to strong niche specialization. Within populations, environmental niches follow a nested pattern, with individuals arranged along a specialist-to-generalist gradient. These results reject common assumptions of individual niche equivalency among conspecifics, as well as the separation of individual niches into disparate parts of environmental space. These findings underscore the need for a more thorough consideration of individualistic environmental responses in global change research.
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- Ben S Carlson
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany
- Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Hansen AJ, Noble BP, Veneros J, East A, Goetz SJ, Supples C, Watson JEM, Jantz PA, Pillay R, Jetz W, Ferrier S, Grantham HS, Evans TD, Ervin J, Venter O, Virnig ALS. Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Conserv Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Ecology Department Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- Ecology Department Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems Northern Arizona University Flagstaff Arizona USA
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems Northern Arizona University Flagstaff Arizona USA
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- Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute University of Northern British Columbia Prince George British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA
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- CSIRO Land and Water Canberra New South Wales Australia
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- Wildlife Conservation Society Global Conservation Program Bronx New York USA
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- Wildlife Conservation Society Global Conservation Program Bronx New York USA
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- United Nations Development Programme New York New York USA
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- Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute University of Northern British Columbia Prince George British Columbia Canada
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Much of biodiversity remains undiscovered, causing species and their functions to remain unrealized and potentially lost in ignorance. Here we use extensive species-level data in a time-to-event model framework to identify taxonomic and geographic discovery gaps in terrestrial vertebrates. Biological, environmental and sociological factors all affect discovery probability and together provide strong predictive ability for species discovery. Our model identifies distinct taxonomic and geographic unevenness in future discovery potential, with greatest opportunities for amphibians and reptiles, and for Neotropical and Indo-Malayan forests. Brazil, Indonesia, Madagascar and Colombia emerge as holding greatest discovery opportunities, with a quarter of potential discoveries estimated. These findings highlight the importance of international policy support for basic taxonomic research and the potential of quantitative models to aid species discovery.
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- Mario R Moura
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Paraíba, Areia, Brazil.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Somveille M, Wikelski M, Beyer RM, Rodrigues ASL, Manica A, Jetz W. Author Correction: Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1700. [PMID: 32235827 PMCID: PMC7109048 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15528-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Jarzyna MA, Quintero I, Jetz W. Global functional and phylogenetic structure of avian assemblages across elevation and latitude. Ecol Lett 2020; 24:196-207. [PMID: 33124188 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mountain systems are exceptionally species rich, yet the associated elevational gradients in functional and phylogenetic diversity and their consistency across latitude remain little understood. Here, we document how avian functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure vary along all major elevational gradients worldwide and uncover strong latitudinal differences. Assemblages in warm tropical lowlands and cold temperate highlands are marked by high functional overdispersion and distinctiveness, whereas tropical highlands and temperate lowlands appear strongly functionally clustered and redundant. We additionally find strong geographic variation in the interplay of phylogenetic and functional structure, with strongest deviations between the two in temperate highlands. This latitudinal and elevational variation in assemblage functional structure is underpinned by nuanced shifts in the position, shape and composition of multivariate trait space. We find that, independent of latitude, high-elevation assemblages emerge as exceptionally susceptible to functional change.
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- Marta A Jarzyna
- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 318 W. 12th Avenue, 300 Aronoff Laboratory, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.,Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, 1760 Neil Avenue, 175 Pomerene Hall, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.,Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS), Département de biologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, 75005, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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Mertes K, Jarzyna MA, Jetz W. Hierarchical multi-grain models improve descriptions of species' environmental associations, distribution, and abundance. Ecol Appl 2020; 30:e02117. [PMID: 32154624 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The characterization of species' environmental niches and spatial distribution predictions based on them are now central to much of ecology and conservation, but implicitly requires decisions about the appropriate spatial scale (i.e., grain) of analysis. Ecological theory and empirical evidence suggest that range-resident species respond to their environment at two characteristic, hierarchical spatial grains: (1) response grain, the (relatively fine) grain at which an individual uses environmental resources, and (2) occupancy grain, the (relatively coarse) grain equivalent to a typical home range. We use a multi-grain (MG) occupancy model, aided by fine-grain remotely sensed imagery, to simultaneously estimate species-environment associations at both grains, conduct grain optimization to measure response grain, and apply this analysis framework to an example species: a medium-sized bird (Tockus deckeni) in a heterogeneous East African landscape. Based on home range analysis of movement data, we calculate an occupancy grain of 1 km for T. deckeni. Using a grain optimization procedure across 32 grains from 10 to 500 m, we identify 60 m as the most strongly supported response grain for a suite of environmental variables, slightly coarser than opportunistic behavioral observations would have suggested. Validation confirms that the accuracy of the optimized MG occupancy model substantially exceeds that of equivalent single-grain (SG) occupancy models. We further use a simulation approach to assess the potential impacts of accounting for the multi-scale structure of species' environmental requirements on estimates of population size. We find that the more strongly supported MG approach consistently predicts a minimum population size in the study landscape that is much lower than that provided by the SG model. This suggests that SG approaches commonly used in conservation applications could lead to overly optimistic abundance and population estimates, and that the MG approach may be more appropriate for supporting species conservation goals. More generally, we conclude that multi-grain approaches of the sort presented, and increasingly enabled by growing high-resolution remotely sensed data, hold great promise for offering a more mechanistic framework for assessing the appropriate grain(s) for population monitoring and management and enable more reliable estimates of abundances and species' distributions.
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- Katherine Mertes
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA
- Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, Virginia, 22630, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA
- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, SL5 7PY, Ascot, Berks, United Kingdom
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Colston TJ, Kulkarni P, Jetz W, Pyron RA. Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs). BMC Evol Biol 2020; 20:81. [PMID: 32650718 PMCID: PMC7350713 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01642-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background The origin of turtles and crocodiles and their easily recognized body forms dates to the Triassic and Jurassic. Despite their long-term success, extant species diversity is low, and endangerment is extremely high compared to other terrestrial vertebrate groups, with ~ 65% of ~ 25 crocodilian and ~ 360 turtle species now threatened by exploitation and habitat loss. Here, we combine available molecular and morphological evidence with statistical and machine learning algorithms to present a phylogenetically informed, comprehensive assessment of diversification, threat status, and evolutionary distinctiveness of all extant species. Results In contrast to other terrestrial vertebrates and their own diversity in the fossil record, the recent extant lineages of turtles and crocodilians have not experienced any global mass extinctions or lineage-wide shifts in diversification rate or body-size evolution over time. We predict threat statuses for 114 as-yet unassessed or data-deficient species and identify a concentration of threatened turtles and crocodilians in South and Southeast Asia, western Africa, and the eastern Amazon. We find that unlike other terrestrial vertebrate groups, extinction risk increases with evolutionary distinctiveness: a disproportionate amount of phylogenetic diversity is concentrated in evolutionarily isolated, at-risk taxa, particularly those with small geographic ranges. Our findings highlight the important role of geographic determinants of extinction risk, particularly those resulting from anthropogenic habitat-disturbance, which affect species across body sizes and ecologies. Conclusions Extant turtles and crocodilians maintain unique, conserved morphologies which make them globally recognizable. Many species are threatened due to exploitation and global change. We use taxonomically complete, dated molecular phylogenies and various approaches to produce a comprehensive assessment of threat status and evolutionary distinctiveness of both groups. Neither group exhibits significant overall shifts in diversification rate or body-size evolution, or any signature of global mass extinctions in recent, extant lineages. However, the most evolutionarily distinct species tend to be the most threatened, and species richness and extinction risk are centered in areas of high anthropogenic disturbance, particularly South and Southeast Asia. Range size is the strongest predictor of threat, and a disproportionate amount of evolutionary diversity is at risk of imminent extinction.
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- Timothy J Colston
- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA. .,Present address: Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA.
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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Gumbs R, Gray CL, Böhm M, Hoffmann M, Grenyer R, Jetz W, Meiri S, Roll U, Owen NR, Rosindell J. Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2616. [PMID: 32457412 PMCID: PMC7250838 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16410-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Phylogenetic diversity measures are increasingly used in conservation planning to represent aspects of biodiversity beyond that captured by species richness. Here we develop two new metrics that combine phylogenetic diversity and the extent of human pressure across the spatial distribution of species - one metric valuing regions and another prioritising species. We evaluate these metrics for reptiles, which have been largely neglected in previous studies, and contrast these results with equivalent calculations for all terrestrial vertebrate groups. We find that regions under high human pressure coincide with the most irreplaceable areas of reptilian diversity, and more than expected by chance. The highest priority reptile species score far above the top mammal and bird species, and reptiles include a disproportionate number of species with insufficient extinction risk data. Data Deficient species are, in terms of our species-level metric, comparable to Critically Endangered species and therefore may require urgent conservation attention.
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- Rikki Gumbs
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK.
- Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
- EDGE of Existence Programme, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK.
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- EDGE of Existence Programme, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK
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- Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
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- School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, 6997801, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, 6997801, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 8499000, Israel
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- On The EDGE Conservation, 152a Walton St, Chelsea, London, SW3 2JJ, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
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González-Del-Pliego P, Freckleton RP, Edwards DP, Koo MS, Scheffers BR, Pyron RA, Jetz W. Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians. Curr Biol 2020; 29:1557-1563.e3. [PMID: 31063716 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Amphibians are among the most highly threatened lineages, with at least 2,000 species estimated to be in danger of extinction [1, 2]. Alarmingly, another ∼2,200 species (∼25% of all ∼7,900 known species) are data deficient or not evaluated (hereinafter termed data deficient) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) [1]. Without an estimate of their status, data-deficient species are usually overlooked in conservation planning and resource allocation [3]. Amphibians have the highest proportion of data-deficient species of any vertebrate group [1, 4], which highlights the need to estimate their threat status considering potentially imminent extinctions. We apply a trait-based spatio-phylogenetic statistical framework [5] to predict threat status for data-deficient species. Because ecological, geographical, and evolutionary attributes increase extinction risk [6, 7], we used geographic distribution data [1, 8], phylogenetically imputed ecological traits, and an amphibian phylogeny [9] to provide initial baseline predictions. We estimate that half of the ∼2,200 data-deficient species are threatened with extinction (vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered), primarily in the Neotropics and Southeast Asia. This increases the number of amphibian species estimated to be threatened with extinction by ∼50%. Of these, we predict that ∼500 species are endangered or critically endangered, and three may be extinct already. We highlight families that are most at risk and suggest where urgent conservation is needed to avert their loss. We show that some of the most vulnerable species may also be the most poorly known and offer an analytical framework for preliminary analysis of their threat status in the face of deficient empirical data.
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- Pamela González-Del-Pliego
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S102TN, UK; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S102TN, UK
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S102TN, UK
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Newins-Ziegler Hall, University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, 22(nd) Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Upham NS, Esselstyn JA, Jetz W. Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation. PLoS Biol 2019; 17:e3000494. [PMID: 31800571 PMCID: PMC6892540 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 441] [Impact Index Per Article: 88.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of species involves numerous trade-offs that have limited their utility to comparative biologists. To establish a robust evolutionary timescale for all approximately 6,000 living species of mammals, we developed credible sets of trees that capture root-to-tip uncertainty in topology and divergence times. Our "backbone-and-patch" approach to tree building applies a newly assembled 31-gene supermatrix to two levels of Bayesian inference: (1) backbone relationships and ages among major lineages, using fossil node or tip dating, and (2) species-level "patch" phylogenies with nonoverlapping in-groups that each correspond to one representative lineage in the backbone. Species unsampled for DNA are either excluded ("DNA-only" trees) or imputed within taxonomic constraints using branch lengths drawn from local birth-death models ("completed" trees). Joining time-scaled patches to backbones results in species-level trees of extant Mammalia with all branches estimated under the same modeling framework, thereby facilitating rate comparisons among lineages as disparate as marsupials and placentals. We compare our phylogenetic trees to previous estimates of mammal-wide phylogeny and divergence times, finding that (1) node ages are broadly concordant among studies, and (2) recent (tip-level) rates of speciation are estimated more accurately in our study than in previous "supertree" approaches, in which unresolved nodes led to branch-length artifacts. Credible sets of mammalian phylogenetic history are now available for download at http://vertlife.org/phylosubsets, enabling investigations of long-standing questions in comparative biology.
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- Nathan S. Upham
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Center for Biodiversity & Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Sundaram M, Donoghue MJ, Farjon A, Filer D, Mathews S, Jetz W, Leslie AB. Accumulation over evolutionary time as a major cause of biodiversity hotspots in conifers. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20191887. [PMID: 31594500 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Biodiversity hotspots are important for understanding how areas of high species richness form, but disentangling the processes that produce them is difficult. We combine geographical ranges, phylogenetic relationships and trait data for 606 conifer species in order to explore the mechanisms underlying richness hotspot formation. We identify eight richness hotspots that overlap known centres of plant endemism and diversity, and find that conifer richness hotspots occur in mountainous areas within broader regions of long-term climate stability. Conifer hotspots are not unique in their species composition, traits or phylogenetic structure; however, a large percentage of their species are not restricted to hotspots and they rarely show either a preponderance of new radiating lineages or old relictual lineages. We suggest that conifer hotspots have primarily formed as a result of lineages accumulating over evolutionary time scales in stable mountainous areas rather than through high origination, preferential retention of relictual lineages or radiation of species with unique traits, although such processes may contribute to nuanced differences among hotspots. Conifers suggest that a simple accumulation of regional diversity can generate high species richness without additional processes and that geography rather than biology may play a primary role in hotspot formation.
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- Mekala Sundaram
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Box G-W, 80 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208106, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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- CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Australian National Herbarium, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208106, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Box G-W, 80 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Greenberg DA, Palen WJ, Chan KC, Jetz W, Mooers AØ. Evolutionarily distinct amphibians are disproportionately lost from human-modified ecosystems. Ecol Lett 2018; 21:1530-1540. [PMID: 30133091 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Humans continue to alter terrestrial ecosystems, but our understanding of how biodiversity responds is still limited. Anthropogenic habitat conversion has been associated with the loss of evolutionarily distinct bird species at local scales, but whether this evolutionary pattern holds across other clades is unknown. We collate a global dataset on amphibian assemblages in intact forests and nearby human-modified sites to assess whether evolutionary history influences susceptibility to land conversion. We found that evolutionarily distinct amphibian species are disproportionately lost when forested habitats are converted to alternative land-uses. We tested the hypothesis that grassland-associated amphibian lineages have both higher diversification and are pre-adapted to human landscapes, but found only weak evidence supporting this. The loss of evolutionarily distinct amphibians with land conversion suggests that preserving remnant forests will be vital if we aim to preserve the amphibian tree of life in the face of mounting anthropogenic pressures.
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- D A Greenberg
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Estimates of recent biodiversity change remain inconsistent, debated, and infrequently assessed for their functional implications. Here, we report that spatial scale and type of biodiversity measurement influence evidence of temporal biodiversity change. We show a pervasive scale dependence of temporal trends in taxonomic (TD) and functional (FD) diversity for an ~50-year record of avian assemblages from North American Breeding Bird Survey and a record of global extinctions. Average TD and FD increased at all but the global scale. Change in TD exceeded change in FD toward large scales, signaling functional resilience. Assemblage temporal dissimilarity and turnover (replacement of species or functions) declined, while nestedness (tendency of assemblages to be subsets of one another) increased with scale. Patterns of FD change varied strongly among diet and foraging guilds. We suggest that monitoring, policy, and conservation require a scale-explicit framework to account for the pervasive effect that scale has on perceived biodiversity change.
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- Marta A Jarzyna
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.,Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berks, SL5 7PY, UK
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