Conservation efforts and emergency medicine face comparable problems: how to use
scarce resources wisely to conserve valuable assets. In both fields, the process of …

▪ Abstract Supertree construction is a new, rigorous approach for combining phylogenetic
information to produce more inclusive phylogenies. It has been used to provide some of the …

Abstract Cactaceae (cacti), a New World plant family, is one of the most endangered groups
of organisms on the planet. Conservation planning is uncertain as it is unclear whether …

The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis suggests that neoplastic clones are maintained
exclusively by a rare fraction of cells with stem cell properties,. Although the existence of …

The question is often raised whether it is statistically necessary to control for phylogenetic
associations in comparative studies. To investigate this question, we explore the use of a …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

The first photographs of the Earth to be taken from outer space are said to have had a
profound influence on how humanity perceives its place in the Universe. They provided a …

Aim We investigated the effects of disease on the local abundances and distributions of
species at continental scales by examining the impacts of white‐nose syndrome, an …

1. The abundance and distribution of species tend to be linked, such that species declining
in abundance often tend also to show declines in the number of sites they occupy, while …

Rapid changes in biodiversity are occurring globally, yet the ecological impacts of diversity
loss are poorly understood. Here we use data from marine invertebrate communities to …