John Gittleman's latest co-edited volume, "Phylogeny and Conservation" is now available from Cambridge University Press.

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Phylogeny and Conservation, Edited by Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman & Thomas Brooks, Cambridge University Press.

Phylogeny is a potentially powerful tool for conserving biodiversity. This book explores how it can be used to tackle questions of great practical importance and urgency for conservation. Using case studies from many different taxa and regions of the world, the volume evaluates how useful phylogeny is in understanding the processes that have generated today's diversity and the processes that now threaten it. The novelty of many of the applications, the increasing ease with which phylogenies can be generated, the urgency with which conservation decisions have to be made and the need to make decisions that are as good as possible together make this volume a timely and important synthesis which will be of great value to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers alike.


• The first synthesis to explore the ways in which phylogeny can influence conservation biology and policy
• Explores both the conservation of present-day diversity, and the processes that have generated it
• Features case studies from a wide range of taxonomic groups, scales and geographical regions

 

2007

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R. Samantha A. Price, S.A., Gittleman, J.L. Purvis, A, (in press). The delayed rise of modern mammals. Nature 444: 93-96.

 

Davies, T. J., Meiri, S., Barraclough, T. G. and Gittleman, J. L. (2007) Species coexistence and character divergence across carnivores. Ecology Letters 10: 146-152.

 

Lindenfors, P., Nunn, C.L., Jones, K.E., Cunninghamn, A.A., Sechrest, S. and Gittleman, J.L. (in press) Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density . Global Ecology & Biogeography: DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00301.x.

 

Nunn, C.L., Rothschild, B. and Gittleman, J.L. (2007). Why are some species more commonly afflicted by arthritis than others? A comparative study of spondyloarthropathy in primates and carnivores . Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

 

2006

Cardillo, M., Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. (2006). Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 4157–4161.

 

Davies, T. J. (2006). When relatives cannot live together. Current Biology 16, R645-R647.

 

Davies, T. J. and Savolainen, V. (2006). Neutral theory, phylogenies, and the relationship between phenotypic change and evolutionary rates. Evolution 60: 476-483.

 

Grenyer, R., Orme, C. D. L., Jackson, S. F., Thomas, G. H., Davies, R. G., Davies, T. J., Jones, K. E. Olson, V. A., Ridgely, R., Rasmussen, P., Ding, T.-S., Bennett, P. M., Blackburn, T. M., Gaston, K. J., Gittleman, J. L. and Owens, I. P. F., (2006). The global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature 444: 93-96.

 

2005

Barraclough T. G. and T. J. Davies. (2005). Predicting future speciation. In Phylogeny and Conservation (A. Purvis, J. L. Gittleman, and T. M. Brooks, eds), pp.400-418. Cambridge University Press.

 

Davies, T. J., V. Savolainen, M. W. Chase, P. Goldblatt, and T. G. Barraclough. (2005). Environment, area and diversification in the species-rich flowering plant family Iridaceae, American Naturalist 166: 418-425.

 

Davies, T. J., R. Grenyer, and J. L. Gittleman. (2005). Phylogeny can make the mid-domain effect an inappropriate null model. Biology Letters 1: 143-146.

 

Gittleman, J.K. and Gompper, M.E. (2005). Plight of predators - the importance of carnivores for understanding patterns of biodiversity and extinction risk. In: Ecology of Predator-Prey interactions (Eds. P. Barbosa & I. Castellanos), pp. 370-388. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Issac, N.J.B., Jones, K. E., Gittleman, J. L. & Purvis, A. (2005). Correlates of Species Richness in Mammals: Body Size, Life History, and Ecology. American Naturalist 165: 600–607.

 

Jones K.E., O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds & J.L. Gittleman (2005). Bats, clocks and rocks: diversification patterns in Chiroptera. Evolution 59: 2243-2255.

 

Jones, K.E., Sechrest, W. and Gittleman, J.L. (2005). Age and area revisited: identifying global patterns and implications for conservation. In: Phylogeny and Conservation (eds. A. Purvis, J.L. Gittleman & T.M. Brooks), pp. 141-165. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Price, S.A., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P. and Gittleman, J.L. (2005). A complete Phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals (Cetartiodactyla). Biological Reviews 80:445-473.

 

2004

Agapow, P.M., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P, Crandall, K.A., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M., Marshall, J.C. & Purvis, A. (2004). The impact of the species concept on biodiversity studies. Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 161-179.

 

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P, Jones, K.E., Price, S.A., Cardillo, M. Grenyer, R. & Purvis, A. (2004). Garbage in, garbage out: data issues in supertree construction. In Phylogenetic supertrees: combining information to reveal the Tree of Life (Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., ed.), Computational Biology Series, vol. 3. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

Cardillo, M., Purvis, A., Sechrest, W., Gittleman, J.L., Bielby, J. & Mace, G.M. (2004). Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores. PLOS Biology, Volume 2: 909-914.

 

Collen, B., Purvis, A. and Gittleman, J.L. (2004). Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 13: 459-467.

 

Davies, T. J., T. G. Barraclough, M. W. Chase, P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, and V. Savolainen. (2004). Darwin's abominable mystery: insights from a supertree of the angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101: 1904-1909.

 

Davies, T. J., T. G. Barraclough, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. (2004). Environmental causes for plant biodiversity gradients. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 359: 1645-1656.

 

Davies, T. J., V. Savolainen, M. W. Chase, J. Moat, and T. G. Barraclough. (2004). Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 271: 2195-2200.

 

Gittleman, J.L., Jones, K.E. and Price, S.A. (2004). Supertrees: using complete phylogenies in comparative biology. In: Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining information to reveal the tree of life (ed. O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds), pp. 439-460. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

Gittleman, J.L. and Webster, A.J. (2004). The legacy of extinction risk: lessons from giant pandas and other threatened carnivores. In: Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation (eds. D. Lindburg & K. Barogona), pp. 236-245. University of California Press.

 

Salamin, N., and T. J. Davies. (2004). Using supertrees to investigate species richness in grasses and flowering plants. In Phylogenetic supertrees: combining information to reveal the Tree of Life (Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., ed.), pp.461-486. Computational Biology, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

Webster, A.J., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. The life history legacy of evolutionary body size change in carnivores. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp: 396-407

 

2003

Altizer, S., Nunn, C.L., Thrall, P.H., Gittleman, J.L., Antonovics, J., Cunningham, A.A., Dobson, A.P., Ezenwa, V., Jones, K.E., Pedersen, A.B., Poss, M. & Pulliam, J.R.C. . Social organization and parasite risk in mammals: Integrating theory and empirical studies. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Volume 34, pp: 517-547.

 

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Jones, K.E., Price, S.A., Grenyer, R., Cardillo, M., Habib, M., Purvis, A. & Gittleman, J.L. Supertrees are a necessary not-so-evil: A comment on Gatesy et al.. Systematic Biology, Volume 52, Issue 5, pp: 724-729

 

Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. Preserving the tree of life. Science, Volume 300, Issue 5626, pp: 1707-1709

 

Reynolds, J.D, Bruford, M.W., Gittleman, J.L. & Wayne, R.K. The first five years. Animal Conservation, Volume 6, Part 1, pp: 1-2

 

Jones, K.E., Purvis, A. & Gittleman, J.L. Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats. American Naturalist, Volume 161, Issue 4, pp: 601-614

 

Nunn, C.L., Gittleman, J.L. & Antonovics, J. A comparative study of white blood cell counts and disease risk in carnivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, Volume 270, Issue 1513, pp: 347-356

 

Cruz-Neto, A. & Jones, K.E. Exploring the evolution of basal metabolic rates in bats. In "Functional and evolutionary ecology of bats" (eds. Zubaid, A., McCracken, G.F. & Kunz, T.H.). Oxford University Press.

 

Purvis, A., Webster, A.J., Agapow, P-M., Jones, K.E. & Isaac, N.J.B. Primate Life Histories and Phylogeny. In "Primate Life Histories and Socioecology" (eds. Kappeler, P.M. & Pereira, M. eds.). Chicago University Press.

 

2002

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Gittleman, J.L. & Steel, M.A. The (Super)tree of life: procedures, problems and prospects. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Volume 33, pp: 265-289

 

Carbone, C. and Gittleman, J.L. A Common Rule for the Scaling of Carnivore Density. Science Volume 295, pp: 2273-2276.

 

Savolainen, V., S. B. Heard, M. P. Powell, T. J. Davies, and A. Ø. Mooers. (2002). Is cladogenesis heritable? Systematic Biology 51:1-9.

 

Guest, P., Jones, K.E. & Tovey, J. Bats in Greater London: Unique evidence of a decline over 15 years. British Wildlife Volume 13, pp:1-5.

 

Hewitt, G.,MacLarnon, A. & Jones, K.E. The functions of laryngeal air sacs in primates: a new hypothesis. Folia Primatologica Volume 73, pp: 70-94

 

Jones, K.E., Purvis, A, MacLarnon, A., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P. & Simmons, N.B. A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Biological Reviews, Volume 77, pp: 223-259. Download NEXUS file here.

 

Lockwood, J.L., Russell, G.J., Gittleman, J.L., Daehler,C.C., McKinney,M.L. & Purvis, A. Towards pre-emptive conservation strategies: a metric for analyzing taxonomic patterns of extinction risk. Conservation Biology Volume 16, pp: 1137-1142.

 

Sechrest, W., Brooks, T.M., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Konstant, W.R., Mittermeier, R.A., Purvis, A., Rylands, A.B. & Gittleman, J.L. Hotspots and the conservation of evolutionary history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA Volume 99, pp:2067-2071. Download DATA here.

 

2001

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Decker-Flum, D. & Gittleman, J.L. The utility of chemical signals as phylogenetic characters: An example in the Felidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 72, pp:1-15.

 

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Gittleman, J.L. & Kelly, C. Flippers versus feet: comparative trends in aquatic and non-aquatic carnivores. Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 70, pp:386-400.

 

Gittleman, J.L. & Gompper, M.E. The risk of extinction -what you don't know will hurt you. Science Volume 291, pp:997-999.

 

Gittleman, J.L., Gompper, M.E. & Jones, K.E. Extinction: Complexity of Assessing Risk. Science Volume 292, pp: 217-218.

 

Hosken, D., Jones, K.E., Chipperfield, K. & Dixson, A. Is the bat os penis sexually selected? Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology Volume 50, pp:450-460.

 

Jones, K.E. Chiroptera (Bats). Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Nature Publishing Group.

 

Jones, K.E., Barlow, K.E., Vaughan, N., Rodriguez-Duran, A. & Gannon, N. Short-term impacts of extreme environmental disturbance on the bats (Chiroptera) of Puerto Rico. Animal Conservation Volume 4, pp:56-66.

 

Jones, K.E. & MacLarnon, A. Bat life-histories: testing models of mammalian life history evolution. Evolutionary Ecology Research Volume 3, pp: 465-476.

 

Jones, K.E. & Walsh,A. A guide to British bats. Field Studies Council / Mammal Society.

 

Purvis, A., Mace, G.M. & Gittleman, J.L. Past and future carnivore extinctions: a phylogenetic perspective. In: Carnivore Conservation (Eds. J.L. Gittleman, S. Funk, D. Macdonald & R.K. Wayne), pp: 11-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Sechrest, W.W. & Brooks, T.M. Biodiversity -Threats. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Nature Publishing Group.

 

2000

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P. & Gittleman, J.L. Are pinnipeds functionally different from fissiped carnivores? The importance of phylogenetic comparative analyses. Evolution Volume 54, pp: 1011-1023

 

Gittleman, J.L. Hanging bears from phylogenetic trees: investigating patterns of macroevolution. Ursus Volume 11. pp:29-40.

 

Gittleman, J.L., Luh, H-K., Anderson, C.G. & Cates, S.E. Evolutionary development, life histories, and brain size - finding connections via a multivariate method. In: Biology, Brains, and Behavior (Eds. S.T. Parker, M.L. McKinney & J. Langer), pp: 159-179. Santa Fe: SAR Press.

 

Nunn, C.L.,Gittleman, J.L. & Antonovics, J. Promiscuity and the primate immune system. Science Volume 290, pp:1168-1170

 

Purvis, A., Jones, K.E. & Mace, G.M. Extinction. Bioessays Volume 22, pp: 1123-1133

 

Purvis, A., Agapow, P-M., Gittleman, J.L. & Mace, G.M. Nonrandom extinction and the loss of evolutionary history. Science, Volume 288, pp:328-330

 

Purvis, A., Gittleman, J.L., Cowlishaw, G. & Mace, G.M. Predicting extinction risk in declining species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Volume 267, pp:1947-1952.