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David C. Blackburn

Researcher at Florida Museum of Natural History

Publications -  127
Citations -  4183

David C. Blackburn is an academic researcher from Florida Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Arthroleptidae & Arthroleptis. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 114 publications receiving 3448 citations. Previous affiliations of David C. Blackburn include Northwestern University & Harvard University.

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Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

Zhi-Qiang Zhang, +135 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
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Finding Our Way through Phenotypes.

Andrew R. Deans, +73 more
- 06 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: Imagine if the authors could compute across phenotype data as easily as genomic data; this article calls for efforts to realize this vision and discusses the potential benefits.
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Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

TL;DR: It is found that ∼88% of living frogs originated from three principal lineages that arose at the end of the Mesozoic, coincident with the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction event that decimated nonavian dinosaurs 66 Mya.
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Specimen collection: An essential tool

Luiz A. Rocha, +123 more
- 23 May 2014 - 
TL;DR: Collecting biological specimens for scientific studies came under scrutiny when B. A. Minteer and colleagues suggested that this practice plays a significant role in species extinctions.
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Evolutionary Processes of Diversification in a Model Island Archipelago

TL;DR: An ongoing renaissance of species discovery is characterized and how a 25-year Pleistocene island connectivity paradigm continues to provide some explanatory power, but has been augmented by increased understanding of the archipelago's geological history and ecological gradients is described.