J. Rosindell

Quantifying the IUCN Red List: Using historical assessments to calculate future extinction risk

This paper calculates continuous extinction risk from historical IUCN Red List data, revealing that species attributes like taxonomy, body size, and habitat specialism influence risk beyond the current categorical assessments.

Climatic limits to Atlantic salmon population fitness at continental scales

This paper models the thermal niche of Atlantic salmon to predict how climate and resource changes affect population fitness.

The evolutionary age-range size relationship is modulated by insularity and dispersal in plants and animals

The paper examines the relationship between evolutionary age and range size in species, finding that age correlates with larger ranges but this effect is modulated by insularity and dispersal ability.

Bacterial responses to complex mixtures of chemical pollutants

The paper examines bacterial responses to complex chemical mixtures and finds that interactions between pollutants influence growth in ways not predictable from individual chemical effects.

Biodiversity and Conservation Priority Setting for the Vascular Flora of New Guinea

The paper identifies priority regions for conservation and research in New Guinea by combining biodiversity predictions with deforestation risk assessments.

Species Richness and Speciation Rates for all Terrestrial Animals Emerge from a Synthesis of Ecological Theories

The paper estimates global terrestrial animal species richness and speciation rates by integrating ecological theories, finding speciation rates decrease with body size and are higher for carnivores.

Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage

This paper introduces EvoHeritage, a new phylogenetic biodiversity metric that accounts for both accumulation and attrition of evolutionary features, showing it better predicts community productivity and identifies living fossils than traditional metrics.

EDGE2: advancing the prioritisation of threatened evolutionary history for conservation action

The paper introduces EDGE2, an updated metric for prioritizing species with threatened evolutionary history, showing it prioritizes species with fewer close relatives more than the original EDGE method.

Early tetrapod diversification under neutral theory

This study uses a neutral theory model to show that early tetrapod diversity changes during the late Carboniferous and early Permian were not driven by local endemism but by sampling intensity variations.

Tropical forest dynamics correspond to fair games in economic theory of financial markets

The paper applies efficient market theory to tropical forest dynamics, finding that species abundance patterns align with equalizing mechanisms rather than stabilizing ones.

Detecting the ecological footprint of selection

This study introduces a new form of competition in ecological simulations to better detect selection's impact on community structure using trait data.

Conserving evolutionary history to safeguard our future: incorporating the Tree of Life into biodiversity policy

The paper advocates for incorporating the Tree of Life into biodiversity policy to preserve nature's contributions to people and prevent extinction, proposing two indicators for monitoring progress.

Dynamic visualisation of million-tip trees: the OneZoom project

The paper describes the OneZoom project, which dynamically visualizes the complete tree of life with metadata and images, enabling exploration on mobile devices.

A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity revealsthe mechanisms structuring ecological communities

The paper introduces a mechanistic model integrating species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity to infer ecological community assembly processes using tropical tree, arthropod, and gastropod communities.

Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts

The paper develops metrics combining phylogenetic diversity and human impact for reptile conservation, finding high human impact areas coincide with high reptilian diversity and identifying data-deficient species as high priority.

A phylogenomic analysis of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)

This study uses high-throughput sequencing to analyze the phylogeny of Nepenthes species, confirming some clades and highlighting inconsistencies in others.

A simple spatially explicit neutral model explains range size distribution of reef fishes

The paper uses a spatially explicit neutral model to show dispersal ability explains range size variation in reef fishes.