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The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates
- M. Hoffmann, C. Hilton-Taylor, +171 authors S. Stuart
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 10 December 2010
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496, published online 26 October) review quantitative… Expand
Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism
- B. Collen, Felix J. S. Whitton, +7 authors M. Böhm
- Biology, Medicine
- Global ecology and biogeography : a journal of…
- 3 July 2013
Aim Global-scale studies are required to identify broad-scale patterns in the distributions of species, to evaluate the processes that determine diversity and to determine how similar or different… Expand
Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges
- N. Cumberlidge, P. Ng, +13 authors M. Ram
- Biology
- 1 August 2009
Freshwater ecosystems in the tropics host a diverse endemic fauna including freshwater crabs, but the rapid loss and deterioration of habitat means that many species are now under imminent threat.… Expand
Global diversity of crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in freshwater
- Darren C. J. Yeo, Peter K. L. Ng, N. Cumberlidge, C. Magalhães, Savel R. Daniels, M. Campos
- Biology
- Hydrobiologia
- 2007
An assessment of the global freshwater crab diversity is presented. A total of 1,476 species in 14 families are currently known from all zoogeographical regions (except Antarctica), including 1,306… Expand
Evolution of Afrotropical freshwater crab lineages obscured by morphological convergence.
- S. Daniels, N. Cumberlidge, M. Pérez-Losada, S. Marijnissen, K. Crandall
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
- 1 July 2006
We use sequence data derived from six DNA gene loci to examine evolutionary and biogeographic affinities among all freshwater crab families. With an emphasis on the Afrotropical fauna that includes… Expand
Implications of bias in conservation research and investment for freshwater species
- William Darwall, R. A. Holland, +16 authors J. Vié
- Geography
- 1 December 2011
Human population growth and economic development threaten the integrity of freshwater ecosystems globally, reducing their ability to support biodiversity and provide ecosystem services. However, our… Expand
Insular species of Afrotropical freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae and Potamidae) with special reference to Madagascar and the Seychelles
- N. Cumberlidge
- Biology
- 2008
The evolutionary relationships between island and mainland faunas of the 24 species of insular freshwater crabs in the Afrotropical region are reviewed in the light of phylogenetic studies. Twenty… Expand
A revision of the genus Platythelphusa A
- N. Cumberlidge, R. Sternberg, I. R. Bills, H. A. Martin
- Geography
- 1999
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A revision of the higher taxonomy of the Afrotropical freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) with a discussion of their biogeography
- N. Cumberlidge, R. Sternberg, S. Daniels
- Biology
- 1 February 2008
The higher taxonomy of the 20 known genera of Afrotropical freshwater crabs is revised to reflect the evolutionary relationships revealed by the consensus of a series of recent morphological and… Expand