R. Gumbs

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.

Advancing EDGE Zones: spatial priorities for the conservation of tetrapod evolutionary history

This paper identifies priority regions for conserving tetrapod evolutionary history by mapping threatened evolutionary history and defining 25 EDGE Zones globally.

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.

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.

Poor protection of amphibian evolutionary history reveals opportunities for global protected areas

The paper assesses how well the global protected area network conserves amphibian evolutionary history and identifies opportunities for improvement.

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.

Tetrapods on the EDGE: Overcoming data limitations to identify phylogenetic conservation priorities

The paper develops a new method to impute evolutionary distinctiveness scores for missing species in phylogenies and applies it to tetrapods to update EDGE conservation priorities.