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List of works by John L. Gittleman

A Metric for Analyzing Taxonomic Patterns of Extinction Risk

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A common rule for the scaling of carnivore density.

scientific article published in March 2002

A comparative study of white blood cell counts and disease risk in carnivores

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A complete phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals (Cetartiodactyla)

scientific article

Ailurus fulgens

scientific article published on 14 November 1984

Are pinnipeds functionally different from fissiped carnivores? The importance of phylogenetic comparative analyses

scientific article published in June 2000

Bats, clocks, and rocks: diversification patterns in Chiroptera

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Biodiversity conservation: Does phylogeny matter?

scientific article published on May 21, 1998

Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates

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Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats

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Biological diversity: where is it?

scientific article published on February 21, 1992

Body size and species-richness in carnivores and primates

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 1998)

Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia)

article published in 2007

Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia).

scientific article published in 1999

Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates

scientific article published in December 1985

Colloquium paper: phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

scientific article (publication date: 12 August 2008)

Constraints on group size in primates and carnivores: population density and day-range as assays of exploitation competition

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Correlates of species richness in mammals: body size, life history, and ecology

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Corrigendum: Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Crying wolf in North America

scientific article published in Nature

Dispersal, philopatry, and genetic relatedness in a social carnivore: comparing males and females

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

EDITORIAL

Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data

scientific article (publication date: August 2010)

Ecology and evolution. The risk of extinction--what you don't know will hurt you.

scientific article

Editorial

Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2013)

Erratum: Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: The delayed rise of present-day mammals

scientific article published in Nature

Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction

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Female brain size and parental care in carnivores

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Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates.

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Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages

scientific article published in July 2008

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

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Grenyer et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

Home range scaling: intraspecific and comparative trends

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Hotspots and the conservation of evolutionary history

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How global extinctions impact regional biodiversity in mammals

scientific article published on September 28, 2011

Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores

scientific article published in July 2004

Hunting to extinction: biology and regional economy influence extinction risk and the impact of hunting in artiodactyls

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Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation

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Lead poisoning among battery reclamation workers in Alabama

journal article published in 1994

Microsatellite analysis of kinkajou social organization

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Nonrandom Extinction and the Loss of Evolutionary History

scientific article published in Science

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

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Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: a global analysis of carnivores

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: Effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density

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Parasites and the evolutionary diversification of primate clades

scientific article published in November 2004

Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2014)

Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbour similar parasite assemblages

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Phylogeny and conservation

scholarly article

Phylogeny can make the mid-domain effect an inappropriate null model

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Plausible alternatives to bottlenecks to explain reduced genetic diversity

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Predicting extinction risk in declining species

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Preserving the tree of life

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Promiscuity and the primate immune system

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Quaternary climate change and the geographic ranges of mammals

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Reading between the lines — is allometric scaling useful?

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Reply from s.e. Cates and j.L. Gittleman

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Response: Extinction Rates

scientific article published in Science

Sexual size dimorphism in mammals

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Size-assortative choice and mate availability influences hybridization between red wolves (Canis rufus) and coyotes (Canis latrans).

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Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

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Species co-existence and character divergence across carnivores

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Supertrees Are a Necessary Not-So-Evil: A Comment on Gatesy et al

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Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

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The (Super)Tree of Life: Procedures, Problems, and Prospects

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The Fast‐Slow Continuum in Mammalian Life History: An Empirical Reevaluation

scientific article published on 19 April 2007

The Florida panther: an editorial perspective

The Future of Biodiversity

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The Problematic Red Wolf

scientific article published on July 1, 1995

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

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The delayed rise of present-day mammals

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The description and number of undiscovered mammal species.

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The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals

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The impact of species concept on biodiversity studies

scientific article published in June 2004

The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography of modern mammal diversity

scientific article published on September 12, 2011

The life history legacy of evolutionary body size change in carnivores

scientific article published in March 2004

The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

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The maximum rate of mammal evolution

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2012)

The path to host extinction can lead to loss of generalist parasites

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals

scientific article published in June 2008

The utility of chemical signals as phylogenetic characters: an example from the Felidae

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Traits, trees and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals

scientific article published on October 24, 2012

Truth or Consequences: Effects of Phylogenetic Accuracy on Two Comparative Methods

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Turkey's Biodiversity Funding on the Rise

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Why are distasteful prey not cryptic?

scientific article published in Nature

Why are some species more commonly afflicted by arthritis than others? A comparative study of spondyloarthropathy in primates and carnivores

scientific article published in March 2007