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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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Worldwide impacts of past and projected future land-use change on local species richness and the Biodiversity Intactness Index
Samantha L. L. Hill,Ricardo E. Gonzalez,Katia Sanchez-Ortiz,Caton E,Espinoza F,Tim Newbold,Jason M. Tylianakis,Scharlemann Jpw,De Palma A,Andy Purvis +9 more
TL;DR: This paper examines how terrestrial species communities have been impacted over the last thousand years of human development and how plausible futures defined by alternative socio-economic scenarios are expected to impact species communities in the future, and suggests that climate change mitigation itself may also impact biodiversity.
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Metrics and Models of Community Phylogenetics
TL;DR: A review of community phylogenetic structure metrics can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the development of the field's comparative methods and their roots in conservation biology, biodiversity quantification, and macroevolution.
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Evolution: How do characters evolve?
TL;DR: It is shown that both clade age and the logarithm of species number independently predict variance under both gradual and punctuational change, rendering Ricklefs' results uninformative about his central hypothesis.
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Environmental Predictors of Diversity in Recent Planktonic Foraminifera as Recorded in Marine Sediments.
Isabel S. Fenton,Isabel S. Fenton,Paul Nicholas Pearson,Tom Dunkley Jones,Andy Purvis,Andy Purvis +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest the diversity patterns of planktonic foraminifera cannot be explained by any one environmental variable or proposed mechanism, but instead reflect multiple processes acting in concert.