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Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
- Kate E. Jones, N. Patel, P. Daszak
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 21 February 2008
It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
The delayed rise of present-day mammals
- O. Bininda-Emonds, M. Cardillo, A. Purvis
- Geography, Environmental ScienceNature
- 29 March 2007
The results show that the phylogenetic ‘fuses’ leading to the explosion of extant placental orders are not only very much longer than suspected previously, but also challenge the hypothesis that the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event had a major, direct influence on the diversification of today’s mammals.
PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- Kate E. Jones, J. Bielby, A. Purvis
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 2009
Analyses of life-history, ecological, and geographic trait differences among species, their causes, correlates, and likely consequences are increasingly important for understanding and conserving…
Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases
- F. Keesing, L. K. Belden, R. Ostfeld
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 1 December 2010
Overall, despite many remaining questions, current evidence indicates that preserving intact ecosystems and their endemic biodiversity should generally reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases.
Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species
- M. Cardillo, G. Mace, A. Purvis
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 19 August 2005
The disadvantages of large size are greater than generally recognized, and future loss of large mammal biodiversity could be far more rapid than expected.
Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- F. Smith, S. K. Lyons, J. Haskell
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 December 2003
The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that we could investigate the patterns of body mass seen across geographic and taxonomic space and…
Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots
The objective of this report is to present data and expert knowledge on poverty and zoonoses hotspots to inform prioritisation of study areas on the transmission of disease in emerging livestock…
Comparative Tests of Parasite Species Richness in Primates
- C. Nunn, S. Altizer, Kate E. Jones, W. Sechrest
- Biology, Environmental ScienceAmerican Naturalist
- 1 November 2003
Host population density, a key determinant of parasite spread in many epidemiological models, was associated consistently with total parasite species richness and the diversity of helminths, protozoa, and viruses tested separately.
Biological Correlates of Extinction Risk in Bats
- Kate E. Jones, A. Purvis, J. L. Gittleman
- Environmental Science, BiologyAmerican Naturalist
- 28 March 2003
It is probable that the amount of phylogenetic diversity lost if currently threatened taxa disappear may be greater than in other clades with numerically more threatened species because closely related species have more similar levels of threat than would be expected if extinction risk were random.
The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals
- M. Cardillo, G. Mace, J. L. Gittleman, Kate E. Jones, J. Bielby, A. Purvis
- Environmental Science, BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 June 2008
Geographical range size, human population density and latitude were the most consistently significant predictors of extinction risk, but otherwise there was little evidence for general, prescriptive indicators of high extinction risk across mammals.
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