Protecting biodiversity (in all its complexity): new models and methods

LJ Pollock, LMJ O'connor, K Mokany… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
We are facing a biodiversity crisis at the same time as we are acquiring an unprecedented
view of the world's biodiversity. Vast new datasets (eg, species distributions, traits …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the study of taste characteristics and the nutrition and health properties of organic acids in foods

Y Shi, D Pu, X Zhou, Y Zhang - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organic acids could improve the food flavor, maintain the nutritional value, and extend the
shelf life of food. This review summarizes the detection methods and concentrations of …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050

RD Simkin, KC Seto, RI McDonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
As the global urban population is poised to grow by 2.5 billion over the next 30 y, urban land
conversions are expected to be an increasingly prominent driver of habitat and biodiversity …

AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

JA Tobias, C Sheard, AL Pigot, AJM Devenish… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in
evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional …

[HTML][HTML] Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study

SD Hillis, HJT Unwin, Y Chen, L Cluver, L Sherr… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic priorities have focused on prevention, detection, and
response. Beyond morbidity and mortality, pandemics carry secondary impacts, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring the mammal tree: species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

NS Upham, JA Esselstyn, W Jetz - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

AC Hughes, MC Orr, K Ma, MJ Costello, J Waller… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial patterns of biodiversity are inextricably linked to their collection methods, yet no
synthesis of bias patterns or their consequences exists. As such, views of organismal …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

JM Bennett, J Sunday, P Calosi, F Villalobos… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how species' thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to
predicting species' responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived …

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

RP Powers, W Jetz - Nature climate change, 2019 - nature.com
Habitat transformations caused by human land-use change are considered major drivers of
ongoing biodiversity loss,–, and their impact on biodiversity is expected to increase further …