List of works by Alexander Zizka

A New and Improved Online Catalogue of all Extant Vascular Plant Names Available

scientific article published in 2021

Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity.

scientific article

An engine for global plant diversity: highest evolutionary turnover and emigration in the American tropics

scientific article

Automated Filtering May Remove a Large Fraction of Records, But May Have Little Impact on Downstream Analyses

scientific article published in 2022

Automated conservation assessment of the orchid family with deep learning

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Biogeography and conservation status of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae)

scientific article published on 23 November 2019

Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments

scientific article

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

scientific article published in December 2023

CoordinateCleaner : Standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases

scientific article published in 2019

Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic Interchange

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Diversity, distribution and preliminary conservation status of the flora of Burkina Faso

article

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

scientific article published on 29 March 2023

Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Ecological niche models and point distribution data reveal a differential coverage of the cacao relatives (Malvaceae) in South American protected areas

scientific article published in 2022

Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation

scientific article published in 2021

Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation

Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?

scientific article

Evolutionary history of New World monkeys revealed by molecular and fossil data

Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Expert‐based range maps cannot be replicated using data‐driven methods but macroecological conclusions arising from them can

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

Finding needles in the haystack: where to look for rare species in the American tropics

article by Alexander Zizka et al published 1 March 2017 in Ecography

Fossil biogeography: a new model to infer dispersal, extinction and sampling from palaeontological data

scientific article

Geographical Patterns of Woody Plants' Functional Traits in Burkina Faso

article

Global Estimation and Mapping of the Conservation Status of Tree Species Using Artificial Intelligence

scientific article published in 2022

Global distribution, climatic preferences and photosynthesis‐related traits of C<sub>4</sub> eudicots and how they differ from those of C<sub>4</sub> grasses

scientific article published in 2023

Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi

scientific article published in 2022

High-throughput metabarcoding reveals the effect of physicochemical soil properties on soil and litter biodiversity and community turnover across Amazonia

High-throughput metabarcoding reveals the effect of physicochemical soil properties on soil and litter biodiversity and community turnover across Amazonia

High-throughput metabarcoding reveals the effect of physicochemical soil properties on soil and litter biodiversity and community turnover across Amazonia

scientific article published in 2018

How to tell a shrub from a tree: A life-history perspective from a South African savanna

scholarly article by Alexander Zizka et al published 1 May 2014 in Austral Ecology

Infomap Bioregions: Interactive Mapping of Biogeographical Regions from Species Distributions ⬇️

scientific article

LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

LiDAR sensors in smartphones can enrich herbarium specimens with 3D models of habitat at high precision and little cost ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

Linking democracy and biodiversity conservation: Empirical evidence and research gaps

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Locality or habitat? Exploring predictors of biodiversity in Amazonia

scientific article published in 2018

Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities

scientific article published on 2 December 2022

Mountains of diversity

scientific article published in Nature

Mountains of diversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Patterns of plant functional traits in the biogeography of West African grasses (Poaceae)

article

Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes

scientific article

Phylogenomics of the Palm Tribe Lepidocaryeae (Calamoideae: Arecaceae) and Description of a New Species of Mauritiella

scholarly article published in 2021

Recent and local diversification of Central American understorey palms

scientific article published in 2022

SECAPR - A bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of Illumina sequences, from raw reads to alignments

SECAPR—a bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of targeted enriched Illumina sequences, from raw reads to alignments.

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Selective extinction against redundant species buffers functional diversity

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Shifts to open access with high article processing charges hinder research equity and careers

scientific article published in 2023

Slow and steady wins the race: Diversification rate is independent from body size and lifestyle in Malagasy skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Scincinae)

SpeciesGeoCoder: Fast Categorization of Species Occurrences for Analyses of Biodiversity, Biogeography, Ecology, and Evolution

scientific article

Spiny but photogenic: Amateur sightings complement herbarium specimens to reveal the bioregions of cacti

scientific article published in 2023

The Vascular Plant Diversity of Burkina Faso (West Africa) — A Quantitative Analysis and Implications for Conservation

article

The ecological drivers of growth form evolution in flowering plants

scientific article published on 04 April 2022

The evolution of insular woodiness

scientific article published on 6 September 2022

The pitfalls of biodiversity proxies: Differences in richness patterns of birds, trees and understudied diversity across Amazonia

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Traditional plant use in Burkina Faso (West Africa): a national-scale analysis with focus on traditional medicine

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Transitions between biomes are common and directional in Bombacoideae (Malvaceae)

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Unraveling the Phylogenomic Relationships of the Most Diverse African Palm Genus Raphia (Calamoideae, Arecaceae)

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

bRacatus : A method to estimate the accuracy and biogeographical status of georeferenced biological data

scientific article published on 31 May 2021

phylotaR: An Automated Pipeline for Retrieving Orthologous DNA Sequences from GenBank in R.

scientific article published on 5 June 2018

phylotaR: An automated pipeline for retrieving orthologous DNA sequences from GenBank in R

speciesgeocodeR: An R package for linking species occurrences, user-defined regions and phylogenetic trees for biogeography, ecology and evolution

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