Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

MG Betts, C Wolf, M Pfeifer, C Banks-Leite… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Habitat loss is the primary driver of biodiversity decline worldwide, but the effects of
fragmentation (the spatial arrangement of remaining habitat) are debated. We tested the …

[HTML][HTML] Global cooling as a driver of diversification in a major marine clade

KE Davis, J Hill, TI Astrop, MA Wills - Nature Communications, 2016 - nature.com
Climate is a strong driver of global diversity and will become increasingly important as
human influences drive temperature changes at unprecedented rates. Here we investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular identification of mid to final stage slipper lobster phyllosoma larvae of the genus Chelarctus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) collected in the …

K Ueda, T Yanagimoto, S Chow, M Kuroki… - Zoological …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Morphological descriptions of phyllosoma larvae are essential for correct species
identification and investigating the spatiotemporal distribution and recruitment process of …

[HTML][HTML] Elevated atmospheric CO2 promoted speciation in mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae)

C Tang, KE Davis, C Delmer, D Yang… - Communications biology, 2018 - nature.com
Mosquitoes are of great medical significance as vectors of deadly diseases. Despite this,
little is known about their evolutionary history or how their present day diversity has been …

[HTML][HTML] Freshwater transitions and symbioses shaped the evolution and extant diversity of caridean shrimps

KE Davis, S De Grave, C Delmer, MA Wills - Communications Biology, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the processes that shaped the strikingly irregular distribution of species
richness across the Tree of Life is a major research agenda. Changes in ecology may go …

Ecological transitions and the shape of the decapod tree of life

KE Davis, S De Grave, C Delmer… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the processes that shaped the distribution of species richness across the
Tree of Life is a central macroevolutionary research agenda. Major ecological innovations …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic supertree and functional trait database for all extant parrots

KR Burgio, KE Davis, LM Dreiss, LM Cisneros… - Data in brief, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a complete dataset from the literature on functional traits including
morphological measurements, dietary information, foraging strategy, and foraging location …

Scyllarid lobster biology and ecology

KL Lavalli, E Spanier, JS Goldstein - Crustacea, 2019 - books.google.com
The family Scyllaridae is the most speciose and diverse of all families of marine lobsters.
Slipper lobsters are found in both tropical and temperate habitats with hard or soft substrates …

Global cooling & the rise of modern grasslands: Revealing cause & effect of environmental change on insect diversification dynamics

KE Davis, AT Bakewell, J Hill, H Song, P Mayhew - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Utilising geo-historical environmental data to disentangle cause and effect in complex
natural systems is a major goal in our quest to better understand how climate change has …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid class requirements of juvenile slipper lobster, Thenus australiensis

M Landman - 2024 - figshare.utas.edu.au
Scyllarid (slipper) lobsters, and the closely related Palinurid (spiny) lobsters, differ from most
other decapods in that they have pelagic phyllosoma larvae, a post-larval puerulus or nisto …