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“ Our study found species ranges in general tend to get overestimated, but that this trend is particularly pronounced for birds that are threatened, rely on specialized diets or have small habitats ”
Birds' extinction danger underestimated
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“ We found island populations are less resistant to biological invasions, which will likely increase dramatically with changing climate ”
Jockstrip: The world as we know it
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“ We found island populations are less resistant to biological invasions, which will likely increase dramatically with changing climate ”
Study: Most lizards live on islands
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“ Given that we are far off from knowing the individual distributions of the world's 300,000 odd plant species ”
Global map of plant biodiversity created
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“ Holger Kreft and I investigated how well the richness of plants can be predicted from environmental conditions alone. ”
Global map of plant biodiversity created
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“ Plants provide important services to humans-such as ornaments, structure, food and bio-molecules that can be used for the development of drugs or alternative fuels-that increase in value with their richness ”
Global map of plant biodiversity created
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“ For large-bodied species, there is a big discrepancy between area-use measures and population density ”
Blue Planet: Of mice, elephants and gas
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“ This is an incredibly simplified way of trying to understand the potential constraints of how animals in two-dimensional space encounter each other ”
Blue Planet: Of mice, elephants and gas
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“ We can plug these different body-size dependencies into that gas model ”
Blue Planet: Of mice, elephants and gas
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