Professor Andy Purvis

Cooper N, Purvis A, 2009, What factors shape rates of phenotypic evolution? A comparative study of cranial morphology of four mammalian clades, JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 22, Pages: 1024-1035, ISSN: 1010-061X

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Davies TJ, Fritz SA, Grenyer R, Orme CDL, Bielby J, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Jones KE, Gittleman JL, Mace GM, Purvis Aet al., 2009, Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity, In the Light of Evolution, Pages: 263-280, ISBN: 9780309127431

Phylogenies describe the origins and history of species. However, they can also help to predict species' fates and so can be useful tools for managing the future of biodiversity. This chapter starts by sketching how phylogenetic, geographic, and trait information can be combined to elucidate present mammalian diversity patterns and how they arose. Recent diversification rates and standing diversity show different geographic patterns, indicating that cradles of diversity have moved over time. Patterns in extinction risk reflect both biological differences among mammalian lineages and differences in threat intensity among regions. Phylogenetic comparative analyses indicate that for small-bodied mammals, extinction risk is governed mostly by where the species live and the intensity of the threats, whereas for large-bodied mammals, ecological differences also play an important role. This modeling approach identifies species whose intrinsic biology renders them particularly vulnerable to increased human pressure. We outline how the approach might be extended to consider future trends in anthropogenic drivers, to identify likely future battlegrounds of mammalian conservation, and the likely casualties. This framework could help to highlight consequences of choosing among different future climatic and socioeconomic scenarios. We end by discussing priority-setting, showing how alternative currencies for diversity can suggest very different priorities. We argue that aiming to maximize long-term evolutionary responses is inappropriate, that conservation planning needs to consider costs as well as benefits, and that proactive conservation of largely intact systems should be part of a balanced strategy.

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Purvis A, 2008, Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Extinction, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Vol: 39, Pages: 301-319, ISSN: 1543-592X

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Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Jones KE, MacPhee RDE, Beck RMD, Grenyer R, Price SA, Vos RA, Gittleman JL, Purvis Aet al., 2008, The delayed rise of present-day mammals (vol 446, pg 507, 2007), NATURE, Vol: 456, Pages: 274-274, ISSN: 0028-0836

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• Citations: 98

Cooper N, Rodriguez J, Purvis A, 2008, A common tendency for phylogenetic overdispersion in mammalian assemblages, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 275, Pages: 2031-2037, ISSN: 0962-8452

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• Citations: 93

Davies TJ, Fritz SA, Grenyer R, Orme CDL, Bielby J, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Jones KE, Gittleman JL, Mace GM, Purvis Aet al., 2008, Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 105, Pages: 11556-11563, ISSN: 0027-8424

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• Citations: 120

Cardillo M, Gittleman JL, Purvis A, 2008, Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 275, Pages: 1549-1556, ISSN: 0962-8452

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• Citations: 76

Cardillo M, Mace GM, Gittleman JL, Jones KE, Bielby J, Purvis Aet al., 2008, The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 275, Pages: 1441-1448, ISSN: 0962-8452

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• Citations: 282

Bielby J, Cooper N, Cunningham AA, Garner TWJ, Purvis Aet al., 2008, Predicting susceptibility to future declines in the world's frogs, CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 1, Pages: 82-90, ISSN: 1755-263X

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• Citations: 151

Adamowicz SJ, Purvis A, Wills MA, 2008, Increasing morphological complexity in multiple parallel lineages of the Crustacea, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 105, Pages: 4786-4791, ISSN: 0027-8424

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• Citations: 57

Bidartondo MI, Bruns TD, Blackwell M, Edwards I, AFS T, Horton T, Zhang N, Koljalg U, May G, Kuyper TW, Bever JD, Gilbert G, Taylor JW, DeSantis TZ, Pringle A, Borneman J, Thorn G, Berbee M, Mueller GM, Andersen GL, Vellinga EC, Branco S, Anderson I, Dickie IA, Avis P, Timonen S, Kjoller R, Lodge DJ, Bateman RM, Purvis A, Crous PW, Hawkes C, Barraclough T, Burt A, Nilsson RH, Larsson KH, Alexander I, Moncalvo JM, Berube J, Spatafora J, Lumbsch HT, Blair JE, Suh SO, Pfister DH, Binder M, Boehm EW, Kohn L, Mata JL, Dyer P, Sung GH, Dentinger B, Simmons EG, Baird RE, Volk TJ, Perry BA, Kerrigan RW, Campbell J, Rajesh J, Reynolds DR, Geiser D, Humber RA, Hausmann N, Szaro T, Stajich J, Gathman A, Peay KG, Henkel T, Robinson CH, Pukkila PJ, Nguyen NH, Villalta C, Kennedy P, Bergemann S, Aime MC, Kauff F, Porras-Alfaro A, Gueidan C, Beck A, Andersen B, Marek S, Crouch JA, Kerrigan J, Ristaino JB, Hodge KT, Kuldau G, Samuels GJ, Raja HA, Voglmayr H, Gardes M, Janos DP, Rogers JD, Cannon P, Woolfolk SW, Kistler HC, Castellano MA, Maldonado-Ramirez SL, Kirk PM, Farrar JJ, Osmundson T, Currah RS, Vujanovic V, Chen WD, Korf RP, Atallah ZK, Harrison KJ, Guarro J, Bates ST, Bonello P, Bridge P, Schell W, Rossi W, Stenlid J, Frisvad JC, Miller RM, Baker SE, Hallen HE, Janso JE, Wilson AW, Conway KE, Egerton-Warburton L, Wang Z, Eastburn D, WWH H, Kroken S, Stadler M, Turgeon G, Lichtwardt RW, Stewart EL, Wedin M, DW L, Uchida JY, Jumpponen A, Deckert RJ, Beker HJ, Rogers SO, JAP X, Johnston P, Shoemaker RA, Liu MA, Marques G, Summerell B, Sokolski S, Thrane U, Widden P, Bruhn JN, Bianchinotti V, Tuthill D, Baroni TJ, Barron G, Hosaka K, Jewell K, Piepenbring M, Sullivan R, Griffith GW, Bradley SG, Aoki T, Yoder WT, YM J, Berch SM, Trappe M, Duan WJ, Bonito G, Taber RA, Coelho G, Bills G, Ganley A, Agerer R, Nagy L, Roy BA, Laessoe T, Hallenberg N, Tichy HV, Stalpers J, Langer E, Scholler M, Krueger D, Pacioni G, Poder R, Pennanen T, Capelari M, Nakasone K, Tewari JP, Miller AN Det al., 2008, Preserving accuracy in GenBank, Science, Vol: 319, Pages: 1616-1616, ISSN: 0036-8075

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Cooper N, Bielby J, Thomas GH, Purvis Aet al., 2008, Macroecology and extinction risk correlates of frogs, GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, Vol: 17, Pages: 211-221, ISSN: 1466-822X

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• Citations: 136

Meiri S, Cooper N, Purvis A, 2008, The island rule: made to be broken?, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 275, Pages: 141-148, ISSN: 0962-8452

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• Citations: 193

Mace GM, Purvis A, 2008, Evolutionary biology and practical conservation: bridging a widening gap, MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, Vol: 17, Pages: 9-19, ISSN: 0962-1083

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• Citations: 116

Purvis A, 2008, Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Extinction, ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS, Vol: 39, Pages: 301-319, ISSN: 1543-592X

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• Citations: 173

Purvis A, 2007, On being the wrong size: Why big mammals are in big trouble, Planet Earth, Pages: 16-17, ISSN: 1479-2605

Researchers at the World Conservation Union (IUCN), under its Red Lists six-step ladder to extinction, has recently showed a link between risk and body size. Their analysis of the differences that matter for extinction have shown that for species smaller than three kilos, threatened species had narrow distributions in places with severe human impacts. For larger mammals, it also the same, but for species with low abundance and slow reproduction, they are more threatened. It gets worst when the big mammals are struck with a small geographic distribution. Meanwhile, the research also identified places opportunity for conservation from Siberia to Borneo.

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Bielby J, Mace GM, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Gittleman JL, Jones KE, Orme CDL, Purvis Aet al., 2007, The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: An empirical reevaluation, AMERICAN NATURALIST, Vol: 169, Pages: 748-757, ISSN: 0003-0147

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• Citations: 285

Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Jones KE, MacPhee RDE, Beck RMD, Grenyer R, Price SA, Vos RA, Gittleman JL, Purvis Aet al., 2007, The delayed rise of present-day mammals, NATURE, Vol: 446, Pages: 507-512, ISSN: 0028-0836

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• Citations: 1553

Adamowicz SJ, Menu-Marque S, Hebert PDN, Purvis Aet al., 2007, Molecular systematics and patterns of morphological evolution in the Centropagidae (Copepoda: Calanoida) of Argentina, BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, Vol: 90, Pages: 279-292, ISSN: 0024-4066

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• Citations: 45

Beck RMD, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Cardillo M, Liu F-GR, Purvis Aet al., 2006, A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals, BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 6, ISSN: 1471-2148

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• Citations: 89

Purvis A, 2006, The <i>h</i> index:: playing the numbers game, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Vol: 21, Pages: 422-422, ISSN: 0169-5347

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• Citations: 51

Adamowicz SJ, Purvis A, 2006, From more to fewer? Testing an allegedly pervasive trend in the evolution of morphological structure, EVOLUTION, Vol: 60, Pages: 1402-1416, ISSN: 0014-3820

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Collen B, Bykova E, Ling S, Milner-Gulland EJ, Purvis Aet al., 2006, Extinction risk: A comparative analysis of central Asian vertebrates, BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, Vol: 15, Pages: 1859-1871, ISSN: 0960-3115

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Bielby J, Cunningham AA, Purvis A, 2006, Taxonomic selectivity in amphibians: ignorance, geography or biology?, ANIMAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 9, Pages: 135-143, ISSN: 1367-9430

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Cardillo M, Mace GM, Gittleman JL, Purvis Aet al., 2006, Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 103, Pages: 4157-4161, ISSN: 0027-8424

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• Citations: 209

Cardillo M, Mace G, Purvis A, 2005, Problems of studying extinction risks - Response, SCIENCE, Vol: 310, Pages: 1277-1278, ISSN: 0036-8075

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Harcourt AH, 2005, Problems of studying extinction risks, SCIENCE, Vol: 310, Pages: 1276-1277, ISSN: 0036-8075

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Adamowicz SJ, Purvis A, 2005, How many branchiopod crustacean species are there? Quantifying the components of underestimation, GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, Vol: 14, Pages: 455-468, ISSN: 1466-822X

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• Citations: 68

Cardillo M, Mace GM, Jones KE, Bielby J, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Sechrest W, Orme CDL, Purvis Aet al., 2005, Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species, SCIENCE, Vol: 309, Pages: 1239-1241, ISSN: 0036-8075

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Bininda-Emonds ORP, Beck RMD, Purvis A, 2005, Getting to the roots of matrix representation, SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, Vol: 54, Pages: 668-U7, ISSN: 1063-5157

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• Citations: 27