John Gittleman's latest co-edited volume, Foundations of Macroecology, is now available from the University of Chicago Press.

Books

Foundations of Macroecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Edited by Felisa. A. Smith, John L. Gittleman, and James H. Brown. University of Chicago Press.

From the publisher's website:

"Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ecological twist. The term itself was first introduced to the modern literature by James H. Brown and Brian A. Maurer in a 1989 paper, and it is Brown’s classic 1995 study, Macroecology, that is credited with inspiring the broad-scale subfield of ecology. But as with all subfields, many modern-day elements of macroecology are implicit in earlier works dating back decades, even centuries.

Foundations of Macroecology charts the evolutionary trajectory of these concepts—from the species-area relationship and the latitudinal gradient of species richness to the relationship between body size and metabolic rate—through forty-six landmark papers originally published between 1920 and 1998. Divided into two parts—“Macroecology before Macroecology” and “Dimensions of Macroecology”—the collection also takes the long view, with each paper accompanied by an original commentary from a contemporary expert in the field that places it in a broader context and explains its foundational role. Providing a solid, coherent assessment of the history, current state, and potential future of the field, Foundations of Macroecology will be an essential text for students and teachers of ecology alike."

 

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

 

2019

 

Stephens, P. R., S. Altizer, V.O. Ezenwa, J.L. Gittleman, F. Moan, B. Han, S. Huang, and O. Pappalardo. 2019. Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links.  Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 1017-1028.

Byers, J. E., J. P. Schmidt, P. Pappalardo, S.E. Haas, and P. R. Stephens. 2019. What factors explain the geographical range of mammalian parasites?  Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286: 20190673.

Dallas, T., B.A. Han, C.L. Nunn, A.W. Park, P.R. Stephens, and J.M. Drake. 2019. Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks.  Oikos. 128  23-32.

Pappalardo, P., I. Morales-Castilla, A. W. Park, S. Huang, J. P. Schmidt and P. R. Stephens. 2019. Mapping global patterns of parasite diversity.  Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press)

 

2018

 

Fisher, M. A., J. E. Vinson, J. L.Gittleman, & J. M. Drake. 2018. The description and number of undiscovered mammal species. Ecology and evolution, 8: 3628-3635.

Park, A.W., M.J. Farrell, J.P. Schmidt, S. Huang, T.A. Dallas, P. Pappalardo, J.M. Drake, P. R. Stephens, R. Poulin, C.L. Nunn, and T.J. Davies. 2018. Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism–generalism spectrum of mammal parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285: p.20172613.

Dallas, T. A., A. A. Aguirre, S. Budischak, C. Carlson, V. O. Ezenwa, B. A. Han, S. Huang, P. R. Stephens. 2018. Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites.  Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27:  1437-1447.

 

2017

 

Waldron, A., D. C. Miller, D. Redding, A. Mooers, T. S. Kuhn, N. Nibbelink, J. T. Roberts, J. A. Tobias, J. L. Gittleman, 2017. Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending. Nature 551: 364-367

Stephens, P. R.,  P. Pappalardo, S. Huang, J. Byers, R. Critchlow, M. J. Farrel, A. Gehman, R. Ghai, S. Haas. B. Han, J. P. Schmidt, S. Altizer, V. Ezenwa, and C. Nunn. 2017.  Global mammal parasite database v. 2.0.  Ecology doi: 1002/ecy.1799.

 

2016

 

Stephens, P. R., S. Altizer, K. F. Smith, A. Aguirre, J. H. Brown, S. A. Budischack, J. E. Byers, R. Critchlow, J. T. Davies, J. M. Drake, V. O. Ezenwa, M. J. Farrell, J. L. Gittleman, B. A. Han, S. Huang, R. A. Hutchinson, P. Johnson, C. L. Nunn, D. Onstad, A. Park, R. Poulin, G. M. Vazquez-Prokopec, J. P. Schmidt. 2016. The macroecology of infectious disease: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts.  Ecology Letters 19: 1159-1171.

Farrell, M., P. R. Stephens, T. J. Davies. 2016.  Response to Strona & Fattorini: Are generalist parasites being lost from their hosts? Journal of Animal Ecology (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12470)

 

2015

 

Farrell, M., P. R. Stephens, L. Berrang-Ford, J. L. Gittleman, and  T. Davies. 2015. The path to host extinction can lead to loss of generalist parasites. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:978-984.

Stephens, P. R. 2015. Book Review: The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas: Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation. By Peter V. Lindeman. Norman(Oklahoma): University of Oklahoma Press. $45.00. xxi + 460 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4406-1. 2013. The Quarterly Review of Biology 90:102-103.

Huang, S., J. M. Drake, J. L. Gittleman, and S. Altizer. (2015) Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: A global analysis of carnivores. Evolution 69: 621-630.

 

2014

 

Huang, S. O. R. P. Bininda-Emmonds, P. R. Stephens, J. L. Gittleman, amd S. Altizer. 2014. Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbor similar parasite assemblages.  Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 671-680.

Pimm, S., C. Jenkins, R. Abell, T. Brooks, J. Gittleman, L. Joppa, P. Raven, C. Roberts, and J. Sexton (2014) The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection. Science 344:1246752.

de Voss, J. M., L. N. Joppa, J. L. Gittleman, P. R. Stephens, and S. L. Pimm (2014) Estimating the “normal background rate” of species extinction.  Conservation Biology DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12380.

Saarinen, J. J., A. G. Boyer, J. H. Brown, D. P. Costa, S. K. Morgan Ernest, A. R. Evans, M. Fortelius,  J. L. Gittleman, M. J. Hamilton, L. E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S. K. Lyons, J. G. Okie, J. J. Saarinen, R. M. Sibly, P. R. Stephens, J. Theodor, M. Uhen, and F. A. Smith (2014) Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281: 20132049.

Stephens, P. R. (2014) Book Review: The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas: Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation. By Peter V. Lindeman. Norman(Oklahoma): University of Oklahoma Press. $45.00. xxi + 460 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4406-1. 2013. The Quarterly Review of Biology (in press).

 

2013

 

Winternitz, J. C., S. G. Minchey, L. Z. Garamszegi, S. Huang, P. R. Stephens, and S. Altizer  (2013) Sexual selection explains more functional variation in the mammalian major histocompatibility complex than parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: 20131605

Huang, S. O. R. P. Bininda-Emmonds, P. R. Stephens, J. L. Gittleman, amd S. Altizer. (2013) Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbor similar parasite assemblages.  Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 671-680.

Waldron, A., A. O. Mooers, D. C. Miller, N. Nibbelink, D. Redding, T. S. Kuhn, J. T. Roberts, and J. L. Gittleman (2013) Targeting global conservatiom funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110: 12144-12148..

Fisher-Reid, M. C., T. N. Engstrom, C. A. Kuczynski, P. R. Stephens, J. J. Wiens (2013) Parapatric divergence of sympatric morphs in a salamander: incipient speciation on Long Island?  Molecular Ecology 22: 4681-4694.

Okie, J., A. Boyer, J. Brown, S. K. M. Ernest, A. Evans, J. Gittleman, L. Harding, K. Lyons, F. A. Smith, P. R. Stephens, J. Theodor, M. Uhen, and R. Sibley (2013) Effects of allometry, production, and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution.    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1007.

 

2012

 

Huang, S., P. R. Stephens, and J. L. Gittleman (2012) Traits, trees, and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 4997-5003.

Schmidt, J. P., P. R. Stephens, and J. M. Drake (2012) Two sides of the same coin?  Rare and invasive plants native to North America.  Ecological Applications 22: 1512-1525.

Gittleman, J. L., and P. R. Stephens  (2012) Rates of metabolism and evolution. In Brown, J. H., Sibley, R.M., and A. Kodrick-Brown, eds. Metabolic Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell.

Evans, A. R., D. Jones, A. G. Boyer, J. H. Brown, D. P. Costa, S. K. Morgan Ernest, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, M. Fortelius, J. L. Gittleman, M. J. Hamilton, L. E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S. K. Lyons, J. G. Okie, J. J. Saarinen, R. M. Sibley, F. A. Smith, P. R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M. D. Uhen (2012) The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 4187-4190.

Hawkins, B. A., C. M. McCain, T. J. Davies, L. B. Buckley, B. Anacker, H. V. Cornell, E. I. Damnschen, J-A. Grytness, S. P. Harrison, R. D. Holt, N. J. B. Kraft, and P. R. Stephens  (2012) Different evolutionary histories underlie congruent species richness gradients of birds and mammals. Journal of Biogeography 39: 825-841.

Hammond, J. I., D. K. Jones, P. R. Stephens, and R. A. Relyea (2012)  Phylogeny meets ecotoxicology: evolutionary patterns of sensitivity to a common insecticide. Evolutionary Applications doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00237.x

 

2011

 

Stephens, P. R. (2011)  Book Review: Turtles of the United States and Canada, 2nd edition. Ernst, C. H., and J. E. Lovich. 2009. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801891212. 827 p. $95.00 (hardcover).  Copeia 4: 606-617.


Davies, T. J., L. B. Buckley, R. Grenyer, and J. L. Gittleman (2011) The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography of modern mammal diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366: 2526-2535.


Rodrigues, A S. L., R. Grenyer, J. E. M. Baillie, O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds, J. L. Gittlemann, M. Hoffmann, K. Safi, J. Schipper, S. N. Stuart, and T. Brooks (2011) Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366: 2652-2660.

 

2010

 

Smith, F. A., A. G. Boyer, J. H. Brown, D. P. Costa, T. Dayan, S. K. Morgan Ernest, A. R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J. L. Gittleman, M. J. Hamilton, L. E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S. K. Lyons, C. McCain, J. Okie, J. J. Saarinen, R. M. Sibley, P. R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M. D. Uhen. (2010) The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals.  Science 330: 1216-1219.


Wiens, J. J., D.D. Ackerly, L. B. Buckley, T. J. Davies, N. J. B. Kraft, S. P. Harrison, B. Anacker, H. V. Cornell, E. I. Damschen, J-A Gryntes, B. A. Hawkins, C. M. McCain, and P. R. Stephens. (2010) Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and evolutionary biology. Ecology Letters 13: 1310-1324.


Buckley, L.B., T. J. Davies, D. D. Ackerly, N. J. B. Kraft, S. P. Harrison, B. L. Anacker, H. V. Cornell, E. I. Damschen, J. A. Grytnes, B. A. Hawkins, C. M. McCain, P. R. Stephens, & J. J. Wiens (2010) Phylogeny, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 2131-2138.


Wiens, J. C. A. Kuczynzk, and P. R. Stephens (2010) Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear  gene phylogenies in emydid turtles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
99: 445-461.

 

2009

Davies, J. T.,  A. Purvis, and J. L. Gittleman (2009) Quarternary climate change and the geographic ranges of mammals. American Naturalist 174: 297-307.

 

Jones et al. (2009) PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90: 2648.

 

Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens (2009) Evolution of sexual size dimoprhisms in emydid turtles: ecological dimorphism, rensch's rule, and sympatric divergence. Evolution 63: 910-925.

 

Stephens, P. R., and J. J. Wiens (2009) Bridging the gap between community ecology and historical biogeography: niche conservatism and community structure in emydid turtles. Molecular Ecology 18: 4464-4679.



2008

Jones, K. E., N G. Patel, M. A. Levy, A. Storeygard, D. Balk, J. L. Gittleman, and P. Daszak (2008) Global trends in emerging infectious diseases.  Nature 451: 990-993.

 

Cardillo, M., G. M. Mace, J. L. Gittleman, K. E. Jones, J. Bielby, and A. Purvis (2008) The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275:1441-1448.

 

Cardillo, M., J. L. Gittleman, and A. Purvis (2008) Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275:1549-1556.
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Davies, T.J., Fritz, S. A., Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K. E., Gittleman, J. L., Mace, G. M. and Purvis, A. (2008) Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 105 suppl. 1 11556-11563. 

 


2007

Price, S. A., and  J. L. Gittleman (2007) Hunting to extinction: biology and regional economy influence extinction risk and the impact of hunting in artiodactyls. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274:1845-1851.


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. and Purvis, A. (2007) The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446: 507-512.

Bielby, J., G. Mace, O. Bininda Emonds, M. Cardillo, J. Gittleman, K. Jones, C. Orme et al. (2007) The fast slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation. American  Naturalist 169:748-757.
 

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. (2007) Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density . Global Ecology & Biogeography 16:496–509.

 

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 20:460–470.

 

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.

 

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