Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

RM Pringle, JO Abraham, TM Anderson, TC Coverdale… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

[HTML][HTML] Are phylogenies resolved at the genus level appropriate for studies on phylogenetic structure of species assemblages?

H Qian, Y Jin - Plant Diversity, 2021 - Elsevier
Phylogenies are essential to studies investigating the effect of evolutionary history on
assembly of species in ecological communities and geographical and ecological patterns of …

[图书][B] Primate behavioral ecology

KB Strier - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Present-day African ecosystems serve as referential models for conceptualizing the
environmental context of early hominin evolution, but the degree to which modern …

Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity for large‐scale angiosperm assemblages in China

H Qian, Y Jin, F Leprieur, X Wang, T Deng - Ecography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A full understanding of the origin and maintenance of β‐diversity patterns in a region
requires exploring the relationships of both taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity (TBD …

Meeting Linnean, Wallacean, and Darwinian shortfalls in global biodiversity hotspots: A model study from the Indian Himalayan Region

SA Wani, MA Mugal, FA Dar, CS Reddy… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent efforts to make large‐scale biodiversity datasets available, several data
shortfalls still exist that preclude our progress in achieving global conservation and …

Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du, PL Koch - Science, 2018 - science.org
It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

Phylogenetic diversity anomaly in angiosperms between eastern Asia and eastern North America

H Qian, Y Jin, RE Ricklefs - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Although eastern Asia (EAS) and eastern North America (ENA) have similar climates, plant
species richness in EAS greatly exceeds that in ENA. The degree to which this diversity …

Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals

KG Sokolowski, BF Codding, A Du, JT Faith - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Expanding grassy ecosystems through the late Cenozoic may have driven ecological and
evolutionary change in hominins and other African mammals. However, we lack a …

[HTML][HTML] Functional and phylogenetic analyses of tadpole community assembly in temperate montane streams

Z Sun, S Su, J Feng, C Zhao, W Zhu, W Fan, J Lan… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the spatial patterns and the maintenance of biodiversity is a central target in
ecology and biogeography, which provide important insights into community assembly …