How taxonomic change influences forecasts of the Linnean shortfall (and what we can do about it)?

T Lessa, J Stropp, J Hortal, RJ Ladle - Journal of Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The gap between the number of described species and the number of species that actually
exist is known as the Linnean shortfall and is of fundamental importance for biogeography …

Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover

D de Angeli Dutra, RBP Pinheiro, A Fecchio… - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Why do some regions share more or fewer species than others? Community assembly relies
on the ability of individuals to disperse, colonize and thrive in new regions. Therefore, many …

The tragedy of the natural history museum, London

F NAGGS - Megataxa, 2022 - biotaxa.org
The remit of the Natural History Museum, London, encompasses the whole of the natural
world and places it at the forefront of global concerns about human impact on the biosphere …

Network specificity decreases community stability and competition among avian haemosporidian parasites and their hosts

D de Angeli Dutra, R Poulin - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Parasites play a fundamental role in shaping ecological communities and influencing
trophic interactions. Understanding the factors that drive parasite impacts on community …

The nature of dispersal barriers and their impact on regional species pool richness and turnover

JC Nekola, J Divíšek, M Horsák - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We document realized and potential global species ranges based on empirically vetted
species concepts in conjunction with global climate databases and climate suitability …

[PDF][PDF] Delineating Paralaoma annabelli, a minute land snail impacted by the 2019–2020 wildfires in Australia

JK Foon, PT Green, F Köhler - Records of the Australian Museum, 2023 - researchgate.net
The 2019–2020 megafires in eastern Australia have devastated large parts of the known
distributional range of the minute land snail Paralaoma annabelli, prompting conservation …

Correlates of time to first citation in ecology and taxonomy

JJM Guedes, I Melo, I Bione, M Nunes - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Several metrics exists to evaluate the impact of publications and researchers, but most are
based on citation counts, which usually fail to capture the temporal aspect of citations. Time …

[HTML][HTML]  Using genomics, morphometrics, and environmental niche modeling to test the validity of a narrow-range endemic snail, Pateranantahala (Gastropoda …

NV Whelan, EE Strong, NS Gladstone, JW Mays - ZooKeys, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Terrestrial gastropods are among the most imperiled groups of organisms on Earth.
Many species have a complex taxonomic history, often including poorly defined subspecies …