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The global diversity of birds in space and time
- W. Jetz, G. Thomas, J. Joy, K. Hartmann, A. Mooers
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 31 October 2012
Current global patterns of biodiversity result from processes that operate over both space and time and thus require an integrated macroecological and macroevolutionary perspective. Molecular time… Expand
LIKELIHOOD OF ANCESTOR STATES IN ADAPTIVE RADIATION
- D. Schluter, T. Price, A. Mooers, D. Ludwig
- Biology, Medicine
- Evolution; international journal of organic…
- 1 December 1997
Theories of ecological diversification make predictions about the timing and ordering of character state changes through history. These theories are testable by “reconstructing” ancestor states using… Expand
EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA
- L. Harmon, J. Losos, +16 authors A. Mooers
- Biology, Medicine
- Evolution; international journal of organic…
- 1 August 2010
George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated as adaptive radiations—more or less simultaneous divergences of numerous lines from a single ancestral adaptive… Expand
Inferring Evolutionary Process from Phylogenetic Tree Shape
- A. Mooers, S. B. Heard
- Biology
- The Quarterly Review of Biology
- 1 March 1997
Inferences about macroevolutionary processes have traditionally depended solely on the fossil record, but such inferences can be strengthened by also considering the shapes of the phylogenetic trees… Expand
Tempo and mode of evolution revealed from molecular phylogenies.
- S. Nee, A. Mooers, P. Harvey
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 1 September 1992
The analysis of the tempo and mode of evolution has a strong tradition in paleontology. Recent advances in molecular phylogenetic reconstruction make it possible to complement this work by using data… Expand
Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds
- W. Jetz, G. Thomas, J. Joy, D. W. Redding, K. Hartmann, A. Mooers
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 5 May 2014
BACKGROUND
Integrated, efficient, and global prioritization approaches are necessary to manage the ongoing loss of species and their associated function. "Evolutionary distinctness" measures a… Expand
Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines
- A. Waldron, A. Mooers, +5 authors J. L. Gittleman
- Economics, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1 July 2013
Inadequate funding levels are a major impediment to effective global biodiversity conservation and are likely associated with recent failures to meet United Nations biodiversity targets. Some… Expand
Converting Endangered Species Categories to Probabilities of Extinction for Phylogenetic Conservation Prioritization
- A. Mooers, D. P. Faith, W. Maddison
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 11 November 2008
Background Categories of imperilment like the global IUCN Red List have been transformed to probabilities of extinction and used to rank species by the amount of imperiled evolutionary history they… Expand
Using Phylogenies to Test Macroevolutionary Hypotheses of Trait Evolution in Cranes (Gruinae)
- A. Mooers, S. Vamosi, D. Schluter
- Biology, Medicine
- The American Naturalist
- 1 August 1999
We present a novel phylogenetic approach to the study of trait evolution. We compare explicit models describing the evolution of phenotypic characters over the phylogeny of a group, employing a… Expand
A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology
- Caroline M. Tucker, M. Cadotte, +13 authors F. Mazel
- Biology, Medicine
- Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical…
- 20 January 2016
The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines, particularly conservation, community ecology and… Expand