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Andy Purvis
Researcher at Natural History Museum
Publications - 242
Citations - 36083
Andy Purvis is an academic researcher from Natural History Museum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 231 publications receiving 31371 citations. Previous affiliations of Andy Purvis include American Museum of Natural History & Natural Environment Research Council.
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Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
Tim Newbold,Lawrence N. Hudson,Samantha L. L. Hill,Sara Contu,Igor Lysenko,Rebecca A. Senior,Luca Börger,Dominic J. Bennett,Argyrios Choimes,Ben Collen,Julie Day,Adriana De Palma,Sandra Díaz,Susy Echeverría-Londoño,Melanie J. Edgar,Anat Feldman,Morgan Garon,Michelle L K Harrison,Tamera I Alhusseini,Daniel J. Ingram,Yuval Itescu,Jens Kattge,Victoria Kemp,Lucinda Kirkpatrick,Michael Kleyer,David L P Correia,Callum D. Martin,Shai Meiri,Maria Novosolov,Yuan Pan,Helen Phillips,Drew W. Purves,Alexandra N Robinson,Jake Simpson,Sean L. Tuck,Evan Weiher,Hannah J. White,Robert M. Ewers,Georgina M. Mace,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andy Purvis +40 more
TL;DR: A terrestrial assemblage database of unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage is analysed to quantify local biodiversity responses to land use and related changes and shows that in the worst-affected habitats, pressures reduce within-sample species richness by an average of 76.5%, total abundance by 39.5% and rarefaction-based richness by 40.3%.
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The delayed rise of present-day mammals
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds,Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds,Marcel Cardillo,Kate E. Jones,Ross D. E. MacPhee,Robin M. D. Beck,Richard Grenyer,Samantha A. Price,Rutger A. Vos,John L. Gittleman,Andy Purvis +10 more
TL;DR: The results show that the phylogenetic ‘fuses’ leading to the explosion of extant placental orders are not only very much longer than suspected previously, but also challenge the hypothesis that the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event had a major, direct influence on the diversification of today’s mammals.
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Predicting extinction risk in declining species
TL;DR: Using complete phylogenies of contemporary carnivores and primates, the first comparative test is presented showing that high trophic level, low population density, slow life history and small geographical range size are all significantly and independently associated with a high extinction risk in declining species.
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PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
Kate E. Jones,Jon Bielby,Marcel Cardillo,Susanne A. Fritz,Justin O'Dell,C. David L. Orme,Kamran Safi,Wes Sechrest,Elizabeth H. Boakes,Chris Carbone,Christina Connolly,Michael J. Cutts,Janine K. Foster,Richard Grenyer,Michael B. Habib,Christopher A. Plaster,Samantha A. Price,Elizabeth A. Rigby,Janna Rist,Amber G. F. Teacher,Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds,John L. Gittleman,Georgina M. Mace,Andy Purvis +23 more
TL;DR: PanTHERIA as mentioned in this paper is a species-level data set compiled for analysis of life history, ecology, and geography of all known extant and recently extinct mammalian species, collected over a period of three years by 20 individuals.
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Getting the measure of biodiversity
Andy Purvis,Andy Hector +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that, although biodiversity can never be fully captured by a single number, study of particular facets has led to rapid, exciting and sometimes alarming discoveries.