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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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Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats.

TL;DR: It is probable that the amount of phylogenetic diversity lost if currently threatened taxa disappear may be greater than in other clades with numerically more threatened species because closely related species have more similar levels of threat than would be expected if extinction risk were random.
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A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera).

TL;DR: The first estimate of the phylogenetic relationships among all 916 extant and nine recently extinct species of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera), a group that accounts for almost one‐quarter of extant mammalian diversity, is presented.
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Comparative ecology of the native and alien floras of the British Isles

TL;DR: This work attempts to identify life history components that allow successful invasion by analysing the life history variables and ecological requirements of plant species that have successfully invaded the U.K. in recent years.
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Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

TL;DR: It is found, by likelihood maximization, that extinction is estimated most precisely if the rate of increase in the number of lineages in the phylogeny saturates towards the present or first decreases and then increases.
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Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

David Leclère, +77 more
- 10 Sep 2020 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an ensemble of land-use and biodiversity models to assess whether and how humans can reverse the declines in terrestrial biodiversity caused by habitat conversion, which is a major threat to biodiversity.