A5074575723- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Plant and animal studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Tardigrade Biology and Ecology
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
University of Gothenburg
2016-2025
Göteborgs Stads
2017-2025
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
2015-2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2018
Ecological Society of America
2018
IFC Research (United Kingdom)
2018
Aarhus University
2008-2017
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2016
Aalborg University
2016
University of California, Los Angeles
2010-2015
Trophic rewilding is an ecological restoration strategy that uses species introductions to restore top-down trophic interactions and associated cascades promote self-regulating biodiverse ecosystems. Given the importance of large animals in their widespread losses resulting downgrading, it often focuses on restoring functional megafaunas. increasingly being implemented for conservation, but remains controversial. Here, we provide a synthesis its current scientific basis, highlighting as key...
The late Quaternary megafauna extinction was a severe global-scale event. Two factors, climate change and modern humans, have received broad support as the primary drivers, but their absolute relative importance remains controversial. To date, focus has been on chronology of individual or small groups species, specific geographical regions macroscale studies at very coarse taxonomic resolution, limiting possibility adequately testing proposed hypotheses. We present, to our knowledge, first...
Significance Animals play an important role in the transport of nutrients, but this has diminished because many largest animals have gone extinct or experienced massive population declines. Here, we quantify movement nutrients by land, sea, rivers, and air both now prior to their widespread reductions. The capacity move away from hotspots decreased 6% past values across land ocean. vertical phosphorus (P) marine mammals was reduced 77% P sea seabirds anadromous fish 96%, effectively...
Data needed for macroecological analyses are difficult to compile and often hidden away in supplementary material under non-standardized formats. Phylogenies, range data, trait data use conflicting taxonomies require ad hoc decisions synonymize species or fill large amounts of missing data. Furthermore, most available sets ignore the impact that humans have had on ranges diversity. Ignoring these impacts can lead drastic differences diversity patterns estimates strength biological rules. To...
Aim To assess the extent to which humans have reshaped Earth's biodiversity, by estimating natural ranges of all late Quaternary mammalian species, and compare diversity patterns based on these with current distributions. Location Globally. Methods We estimated functional phylogenetic species (n = 5747 species) as they could been today in complete absence human influence through time. Following this, we compared macroecological analyses whether human-induced range changes bias evolutionary...
Abstract Most knowledge on biodiversity derives from the study of charismatic macro-organisms, such as birds and trees. However, diversity micro-organisms constitutes majority all life forms Earth. Here, we ask if patterns richness inferred for macro-organisms are similar micro-organisms. For this, barcoded samples soil, litter insects four localities a west-to-east transect across Amazonia. We quantified Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) in those using three molecular markers. then...
Significance Biodiversity is more than the number of species on Earth. It also amount unique evolutionary history in tree life. We find that losses this phylogenetic diversity (PD) are disproportionally large mammals compared with have recently gone extinct. This lost PD can only be restored time as lineages evolve and create new history. Without coordinated conservation, it will likely take millions years for to naturally recover from biodiversity they predicted endure over next 50 y....
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits public programming by hosting rich communities of amateurs, students, researchers at all stages their careers, they can provide a place-based window to focus on integration science discovery, as well locus community engagement. At the same time, like synthesis radio telescope, when joined together through emerging digital resources, global (the 'Global Museum') is...
The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances recent years our understanding origin and diversification many Neotropical taxa biotic regions, questions remain to be answered. Additional biological geological data are still needed, as well methodological that capable bridging these research fields. In this review, aimed primarily at advanced students early-career scientists, we...
To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have affected in past. However, extent of human involvement species extinctions from Late Pleistocene onward remains contentious. Here, we apply Bayesian models fossil record estimate mammalian extinction rates changed over past 126,000 years, inferring specific times rate increases. We specifically test hypothesis human-caused by using posterior predictive methods. find that population size able predict...
Islands are or have been occupied by unusual species, such as dwarf proboscideans and giant rodents. The discussion of the classical but controversial island rule-which states that mammalian body sizes converge on intermediate islands-has stimulated these species. In this study, we use an unprecedented global data set distributions late Quaternary mammal species a novel analytical method to analyze size evolution islands. analyses produced strong support for rule. suffered massive...
Conservation efforts should target the few remaining areas of world that represent outstanding examples ecological integrity and aim to restore a much broader area with intact habitat minimal species loss while this is still possible. There have been many assessments “intactness” in recent years but most these use measures anthropogenic impact at site, rather than faunal intactness or integrity. This paper makes first assessment for global terrestrial land surface assesses how ecoregions...
Abstract Areas of endemism are important in biogeography because they capture facets biodiversity not represented elsewhere. However, the scales at which relevant to research and conservation poorly analysed. Here, we calculate weighted (WE) phylogenetic (PE) separately for all birds amphibians across globe. We show that scale dependence is widespread both indices manifests grain sizes, spatial extents taxonomic treatments. Variations opinions—whether species treated by systematic ‘lumping’...
Anthropogenic extinctions and alien establishments cause an overall loss of functional diversity island bird communities.
Studying anthropogenic bird extinctions shows that flight loss has evolved much more often than inferred from extant birds.
Snakebites in sub-Saharan Africa account for 20,000 to 32,000 annual deaths. But since most data is retrieved from hospital or incomplete central databases, and many victims do not seek treatment prefer traditional remedies, the current numbers are likely underestimated. In order reduce snakebite incidence by 50% 2030 as targeted World Health Organization, it crucial accurately quantify understand rates of incidence, which can only be reliably measured through household surveys. this study,...
Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions (i.e., caused directly by human activities such as hunting, well indirectly through human-associated impacts land use change, fire, and introduction of invasive species) have been recorded, true number likely much larger. Here, combining recorded with model estimates based on completeness fossil record, we suggest...
Abstract Aim How much stronger would the effects of herbivorous mammals be in natural ecosystems if human‐linked extinctions and extirpations had not occurred? Many mammal species have experienced range contractions, numerous gone extinct late Quaternary, completely or large part linked to human pressures. Therefore, herbivore consumption rates seemingly will deviate from their pre‐anthropogenic state. Here, we estimate size this deviation. Location Terrestrial systems, globally. Time period...