Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species?Stuart L Pimm
Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Room A301 LSRC building, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Curr Biol 18:R117-9. 2008
..Habitat loss and climate change both kill off species. New studies show that the latter is a potent threat. Worse, its victims will likely be mostly those not presently threatened by habitat loss...
Ecology. Domains of diversityStuart L Pimm
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27713, USA
Science 304:831-3. 2004
Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctionsStuart Pimm
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:10941-6. 2006
..Birds are poor models for predicting extinction rates for other taxa. Human actions threaten higher fractions of other well known taxa than they do birds. Moreover, people take special efforts to protect birds...
- On population growth near protected areas
Lucas N Joppa
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e4279. 2009
..As such, protected areas may attract or repel human settlement. Disproportionate increases in population growth near protected area boundaries may threaten their ability to conserve biodiversity...
- Sustaining the variety of life
Stuart L Pimm
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, USA
Sci Am 293:66-73. 2005
- Climate disruption and biodiversity
Stuart L Pimm
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Room A301 LSRC building, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Curr Biol 19:R595-601. 2009
..Climate disruptions may cause the loss of a large fraction of the planet's biodiversity, even if the only mechanism were to be species ranges moving uphill as temperatures rise...
- Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest
Kyle S Van Houtan
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Ecol Lett 10:219-29. 2007
..Heavy tailed' probability models usually explain dispersal kernels better than exponential or Gaussian models, suggesting tropical forest birds may be better dispersers than assumed with some individuals moving very long distances...
- Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds
Mariana M Vale
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708 0328, USA
Conserv Biol 22:1006-15. 2008
..These habitats and the species they hold will be increasingly relevant to conservation as river courses are altered and hydroelectric dams are constructed in the Brazilian Amazon...
- Range size and extinction risk in forest birds
Grant Harris
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, NC 27708, USA
Conserv Biol 22:163-71. 2008
..These birds are likely at risk of extinction and reevaluation of their status is urgently needed...
- On the protection of "protected areas"
Lucas N Joppa
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 23708, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:6673-8. 2008
..Finally, we ask whether global databases on protected areas are biased toward highly protected areas and ignore "paper parks." Analysis of a Brazilian database does not support this presumption...
- Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon
J Marion Adeney
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e5014. 2009
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- Reciprocal specialization in ecological networks
Lucas N Joppa
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 23708, USA
Ecol Lett 12:961-9. 2009
..Reciprocal specializations are rare in all these systems when tested against the most conservative null model...
- Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging?
Gareth J Russell
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Anim Ecol 75:324-39. 2006
..The appropriate theory for such systems will be a hybrid of concepts from biogeography/metapopulation theory and behavioural ecology...
- Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments
Goncalo Ferraz
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, MC 5557, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:14069-73. 2003
..A 10-fold decrease in the rate of species loss requires a 1,000-fold increase in area. Fragments of 100 hectares lose one half of their species in <15 years, too short a time for implementing conservation measures...
- Ecology. Protecting China's biodiversity
Jianguo Liu
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Science 300:1240-1. 2003
- Biopiracy: conservationists have to rebuild lost trust
Mariana M Vale
Nature 453:26. 2008
- Satellites miss environmental priorities
Scott R Loarie
Trends Ecol Evol 22:630-2. 2007
- Africa: still the "dark continent"
Stuart L Pimm
Conserv Biol 21:567-9. 2007
- Ecological networks and their fragility
Jose M Montoya
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
Nature 442:259-64. 2006
..Ecological networks, although complex, have well defined patterns that both illuminate the ecological mechanisms underlying them and promise a better understanding of the relationship between complexity and ecological stability...
- Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities
George Sugihara
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:5246-51. 2003
..To our knowledge, this is the first test of a species abundance model based on nontrivial predictions as to the origins and causes of abundance patterns, and not simply on the goodness-of-fit of distributions...
