List of works by Andy Purvis

A Metric for Analyzing Taxonomic Patterns of Extinction Risk

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A Modification to Baum and Ragan's Method for Combining Phylogenetic Trees

scholarly article by Andy Purvis published June 1995 in Systematic Biology

A Modification to Baum and Ragan's Method for Combining Phylogenetic Trees

scholarly article by Andy Purvis published June 1995 in Systematic Biology

A common tendency for phylogenetic overdispersion in mammalian assemblages.

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A composite species-level phylogeny of the Insectivora (Mammalia: Order Lipotyphla Haeckel, 1866)

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A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures

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A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals

scientific article published in 2006

A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera).

scientific article

A phylogenetically-informed trait-based analysis of range change in the vascular plant flora of Britain

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A phylogeny of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera from fossil data.

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A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios

scientific article published in 2018

A single apex target for biodiversity would be bad news for both nature and people

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

A species-level phylogenetic supertree of marsupials

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Adapting to a diverse world

scientific article published in Nature

Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

article by Georgina M. Mace et al published September 2018 in Nature Sustainability

Algorithmic approaches to aid species' delimitation in multidimensional morphospace

scientific article (publication date: 11 June 2010)

Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001-2012

scientific article published on 12 October 2021

Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

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Are big trees indeed easy? Reply from A. Purvis and D.L.J. Quicke

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Are most species small? Not within species-level phylogenies

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2002)

Atlas versus range maps: robustness of chorological relationships to distribution data types in European mammals

Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

scientific article published in 2023

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: When is a species really extinct? Testing extinction inference from a sighting record to inform conservation assessment

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Barro Colorado Island's phylogenetic assemblage structure across fine spatial scales and among clades of different ages

scientific article published in December 2013

Ben Collen (1978–2018)

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: Prioritising British Plant Species According to Evolutionary Distinctiveness, and Accuracy and Magnitude of Decline

scientific article

Biodiversity and species extinction: categorisation, calculation, and communication

article by Esther Turnhout & Andy Purvis published 17 June 2021 in Griffith Law Review

Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates

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Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats

scientific article

Body Size, Diet and Population Density in Afrotropical Forest Mammals: A Comparison with Neotropical Species

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Body size and species-richness in carnivores and primates

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 1998)

Body size does not predict species richness among the metazoan phyla

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Body size evolution in mammals: complexity in tempo and mode

scientific article published in June 2010

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

Building phylogenies: are the big easy?

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Can trait-based analyses of changes in species distribution be transferred to new geographic areas?

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Capturing complexity: field-testing the use of 'structure from motion' derived virtual models to replicate standard measures of reef physical structure

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis

scientific article published in 2018

Changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001-2012

Changing the Landscape: A New Strategy for Estimating Large Phylogenies

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Changing the landscape: a new strategy for estimating large phylogenies

scientific article published in February 2001

Climatic associations of British species distributions show good transferability in time but low predictive accuracy for range change

scientific article

Climatic niche conservatism and the evolutionary dynamics in species range boundaries: global congruence across mammals and amphibians

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Colloquium paper: phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

scientific article (publication date: 12 August 2008)

Comment on "Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification".

scientific article published in July 2012

Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: June 1995)

Comparative ecology of the native and alien floras of the British Isles

Comparative methods and evolution.

scientific article published on January 2002

Comparative methods for explaining adaptations

scientific article published on June 1991

Complex Evolutionary History of Primate LentiviralvprGenes

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Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article

Detecting shifts in diversity limits from molecular phylogenies: what can we know?

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2011)

Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees

scientific article

Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2012)

Dynamism and context‐dependency in diversification of the megadiverse plant genus Solanum (Solanaceae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 July 2020

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

scientific article (publication date: August 2010)

Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land-use pressures in European agricultural landscapes

scientific article

Ecology. Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals

scientific article

Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Environmental Predictors of Diversity in Recent Planktonic Foraminifera as Recorded in Marine Sediments

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Environmental changes define ecological limits to species richness and reveal the mode of macroevolutionary competition

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Erratum: The delayed rise of present-day mammals

scientific article published in Nature

Estimating the potential biodiversity impact of redeveloping small urban spaces: the Natural History Museum's grounds

scientific article

Estimating the transition/transversion ratio from independent pairwise comparisons with an assumed phylogeny

scientific article published on January 1997

Evaluating phylogenetic tree shape: two modifications to Fusco & Cronk's method.

scientific article published in January 2002

Evolution: how do characters evolve?

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Evolutionary Trends in Body Size

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Evolutionary biology and practical conservation: bridging a widening gap.

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Evolutionary ecology. The right size for a mammal

scientific article published in March 1997

Evolutionary radiation of visual and olfactory brain systems in primates, bats and insectivores

scientific article published on June 1995

Extinction Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Central Asian Vertebrates

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FROM MORE TO FEWER? TESTING AN ALLEGEDLY PERVASIVE TREND IN THE EVOLUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE

Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

From more to fewer? Testing an allegedly pervasive trend in the evolution of morphological structure.

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Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

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Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics.

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Getting the measure of biodiversity.

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Getting to the Roots of Matrix Representation

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

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Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages

scientific article published in July 2008

Global patterns of terrestrial assemblage turnover within and among land uses

scientific article published in 2016

Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050

scientific article published on 25 April 2024

Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

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How Diana climbed the ratings at the zoo

scientific article published in Nature

How many branchiopod crustacean species are there? Quantifying the components of underestimation

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

scientific article published in July 2004

Identifying anagenesis and cladogenesis in the fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 6 August 2013)

Inclusion of a near-complete fossil record reveals speciation-related molecular evolution

article by Thomas H. G. Ezard et al published August 2013 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Increasing morphological complexity in multiple parallel lineages of the Crustacea

scientific article (publication date: 25 March 2008)

Insect occurrence in agricultural land‐uses depends on realized niche and geographic range properties

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2011)

Interplay between changing climate and species' ecology drives macroevolutionary dynamics.

scientific article

Investments' role in ecosystem degradation-Response

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Land-use effects on local biodiversity in tropical forests vary between continents

scientific article published on 27 May 2017

Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation

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Latitudinal gradients in taxonomic overdescription rate affect macroecological inferences using species list data

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Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

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Local factors mediate the response of biodiversity to land use on two African mountains

Local species assemblages are influenced more by past than current dissimilarities in photosynthetic activity

scholarly article by Martin Jung et al published October 2018 in Ecography

MODISTools - downloading and processing MODIS remotely sensed data in R.

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Macroecology and extinction risk correlates of frogs

scientific article published in 2008

Macroevolution of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae): the effect of using higher-level taxa in studies of biodiversity, and correlates of species richness

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Macroevolutionary inferences from primate phylogeny

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model

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Metrics and Models of Community Phylogenetics

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Modelling and Projecting the Response of Local Terrestrial Biodiversity Worldwide to Land Use and Related Pressures: The PREDICTS Project

scientific article published in 2018

Modelling and projecting the response of local assemblage composition to land use change across Colombia

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Modelling extinction risk in multispecies data sets: phylogenetically independent contrasts versus decision trees

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Molecular systematics and patterns of morphological evolution in the Centropagidae (Copepoda: Calanoida) of Argentina

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Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species

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Multiscale scenarios for nature futures

scientific article published in 2017

No inflation of threatened species

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Nonrandom Extinction and the Loss of Evolutionary History

scientific article published in Science

Opportunity versus innovation

scientific article published in Nature

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

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Patterns of Overlap in the Geographic Ranges of Palearctic and British Mammals

scientific article published in 1994

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Extinction

scholarly article by Andy Purvis published December 2008 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Extinction

scholarly article by Andy Purvis published December 2008 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Phylogenetic Noise Leads to Unbalanced Cladistic Tree Reconstructions

scholarly article by Arne O Mooers et al published September 1995 in Systematic Biology

Phylogenetic Noise Leads to Unbalanced Cladistic Tree Reconstructions

scholarly article by Arne O Mooers et al published September 1995 in Systematic Biology

Phylogenetic contrasts and the evolution of mammalian life histories

scholarly article by David Berrigan et al published May 1993 in Evolutionary Ecology

Phylogenetic contrasts and the evolution of mammalian life histories

scholarly article by D. Berrigan et al published September 1993 in Evolutionary Ecology

Phylogenetic diversity does not capture body size variation at risk in the world's mammals.

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

Phylogenetic supertrees: Assembling the trees of life

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Phylogenetically nested comparisons for testing correlates of species richness: a simulation study of continuous variables.

scientific article published in January 2003

Phylogeny and conservation

scholarly article

Phylogeny imbalance: taxonomic level matters

scientific article published in December 2002

Polytomies in Comparative Analyses of Continuous Characters

scientific article published in 1993

Polytomies in Comparative Analyses of Continuous Characters

Power of eight tree shape statistics to detect nonrandom diversification: a comparison by simulation of two models of cladogenesis.

scientific article published in December 2002

Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

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Predicting extinction risk in declining species

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Predicting susceptibility to future declines in the world's frogs

Preserving the tree of life

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Quaternary climate change and the geographic ranges of mammals

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Reconciling Biodiversity Indicators to Guide Understanding and Action

Relations between song repertoire size and the volume of brain nuclei related to song: comparative evolutionary analyses amongst oscine birds.

scientific article published in November 1993

Reply to 'The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses'

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species' responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal: Appendix

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Seed size and establishment conditions in tropical trees : On the use of taxonomic relatedness in determining ecological patterns

scientific article published on June 1993

Selectivity in mammalian extinction risk and threat types: a new measure of phylogenetic signal strength in binary traits

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Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

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Sperm Competition in Mammals: A Comparative Study of Male Roles and Relative Investment in Sperm Production

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Sperm Competition: Mating System, Not Breeding Season, Affects Testes Size of Primates

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

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Taxonomic selectivity in amphibians: ignorance, geography or biology?

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Temporal validation plots: quantifying how well correlative species distribution models predict species' range changes over time

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Testing the accuracy of methods for reconstructing ancestral states of continuous characters

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2002)

The 'species problem' and testing macroevolutionary hypotheses

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The Climate Book

2022 book by Greta Thunberg

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

scientific article published on 19 April 2007

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts ⬇️

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

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The delayed rise of present-day mammals

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The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

The effect of fragment area on site-level biodiversity

scientific article published in 2017

The h index: playing the numbers game

scientific article published on 14 June 2006

The impact of Cenozoic cooling on assemblage diversity in planktonic foraminifera

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The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide

scientific article published on 12 April 2023

The impact of species concept on biodiversity studies

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The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis

scientific article published on 24 July 2021

The imprint of Cenozoic migrations and evolutionary history on the biogeographic gradient of body size in New World mammals

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

The island rule: made to be broken? ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2008)

The life history legacy of evolutionary body size change in carnivores

scientific article published in March 2004

The meaning of birth and death (in macroevolutionary birth-death models)

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2012)

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

scientific article published in June 2008

The shape of mammalian phylogeny: patterns, processes and scales

scientific article (publication date: 12 September 2011)

The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London

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

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Understanding global patterns in amphibian geographic range size: does Rapoport rule?

scientific article published in 2011

Using taxonomic revision data to estimate the geographic and taxonomic distribution of undescribed species richness in the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea)

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Warm-up rates during arousal from torpor in heterothermic mammals: physiological correlates and a comparison with heterothermic insects.

scientific article published on January 1992

What factors shape rates of phenotypic evolution? A comparative study of cranial morphology of four mammalian clades

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Where do species' geographic ranges stop and why? Landscape impermeability and the Afrotropical avifauna.

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Widespread winners and narrow-ranged losers: Land use homogenizes biodiversity in local assemblages worldwide

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution

scholarly article by Benno I. Simmons et al published 5 April 2019 in Ecology and Evolution

paleoPhylo: free software to draw paleobiological phylogenies

scholarly article by Thomas H. G. Ezard & Andy Purvis published 2009 in Paleobiology

phyloGenerator: an automated phylogeny generation tool for ecologists

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