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AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their Traits
Sayol, Ferran; Wayman, Joseph P.; Dufour, Paul; Martin, Thomas E.; Hume, Julian P.; Jørgensen, Maria Wagner; Martínez‐Rubio, Natàlia; Sanglas, AriadnaMotivation Human activities have been reshaping the natural world for tens of thousands of years, leading to the extinction of hundreds of bird species. Past research has provided evidence of extinction selectivity towards certain groups of species, but trait information is lacking for the majority of clades, especially for prehistoric extinctions identified only through subfossil remains. This incomplete knowl...
A global analysis of avian island diversity–area relationships in the Anthropocene
Matthews, Thomas J.; Wayman, Joseph P.; Whittaker, Robert J.; Cardoso, Pedro; Hume, Julian P.; Sayol, Ferran; Proios, Konstantinos; Martin, Thomas E.Research on island species–area relationships (ISAR) has expanded to incorporate functional (IFDAR) and phylogenetic (IPDAR) diversity. However, relative to the ISAR, we know little about IFDARs and IPDARs, and lack synthetic global analyses of variation in form of these three categories of island diversity–area relationship (IDAR). Here, we undertake the first comparative evaluation of IDARs at the global scal...
Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats...
Matthews, Thomas J.; Wayman, Joseph P.; Cardoso, Pedro; Sayol, Ferran; Hume, Julian P.; Ulrich, Werner; Tobias, Joseph A.; Soares, Filipa C.AIM: The world's islands support disproportionate levels of endemic avian biodiversity despite suffering numerous extinctions. While intensive recent research has focused on island bird conservation or extinction, few global syntheses have considered these factors together from the perspective of morphological trait diversity. Here, we provide a global summary of the status and ecology of extant and extinct isl...
AVONET : morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds
Tobias, Joseph A.; Sheard, Catherine; Pigot, Alex L.; Devenish, Adam J. M.; Yang, Jingyi; Sayol, Ferran; Neate‐Clegg, Montague H. C.; Alioravainen, NicoFunctional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species-level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for al...