As human population and resource demands continue to grow, biodiversity conservation
has never been more critical. About one-quarter of all mammals are in danger of extinction …

Summary 1 Climate change is affecting species distributions and will increasingly do so.
However, current understanding of which individuals and species are most likely to survive …

Species selection in the broad sense—also termed species sorting—shapes evolutionary
patterns through differences in speciation and extinction rates (and their net outcome, often …

Aim In light of the current biodiversity crisis, there is a need to identify and protect species at
greatest risk of extinction. Ecological theory and globalscale analyses of bird and mammal …

Direct estimates of extinction risk are frequently unavailable, so surrogate indicators are
used in threatened species categorizations, but there is inadequate information on which …

Aim To assess whether eight factors thought to be involved in the extinction process can
explain the pattern of recent decline in Australia's mammal fauna. Location Australia …

The phylogenetic comparative approach is a statistical method for analyzing correlations
between traits across species. Whilst it has revolutionized evolutionary biology, can it work …

Marine biodiversity worldwide is under increasing threat, primarily as a result of over-
harvesting, pollution and climate change. Chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays and …

Understanding the consequences of species loss in complex ecological communities is one
of the great challenges in current biodiversity research. For a long time, this topic has been …

Bergmann's rule, which proposes a heatbalance explanation for the observed latitudinal
gradient of increasing animal body size with increasing latitude, has dominated the study of …