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Ian P. F. Owens
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 104
Citations - 16500
Ian P. F. Owens is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sexual selection & Population. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 103 publications receiving 15651 citations. Previous affiliations of Ian P. F. Owens include Natural History Museum & American Museum of Natural History.
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Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function.
TL;DR: The remaining challenges of understanding the relative roles of genes and ecology in determining variation between taxa in the rate of extra paternity are highlighted, and testing for differences between extra‐pair offspring and those sired within‐pair is highlighted.
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Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat
C. David L. Orme,Richard G. Davies,Malcolm D. Burgess,Felix Eigenbrod,Nicola Pickup,Valerie A. Olson,Andrea J. Webster,Tzung-Su Ding,Pamela C. Rasmussen,Robert S. Ridgely,Ali J. Stattersfield,Peter M. Bennett,Tim M. Blackburn,Kevin J. Gaston,Ian P. F. Owens +14 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that hotspots of species richness, threat and endemism do not show the same geographical distribution and this suggests that, even within a single taxonomic class, different mechanisms are responsible for the origin and maintenance of different aspects of diversity.
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Costly sexual signals: Are carotenoids rare, risky or required?
Valerie A. Olson,Ian P. F. Owens +1 more
TL;DR: Improvements in understanding of carotenoids suggest that the relative importance of these mechanisms will soon be determined, leading to a fresh outlook on cost-based signalling.
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Ecological basis of extinction risk in birds: habitat loss versus human persecution and introduced predators.
Ian P. F. Owens,Peter M. Bennett +1 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate the importance of considering separately the multiple mechanisms that underlie contemporary patterns of extinction and reveal why it has previously proven so difficult to identify simple ecological correlates of overall extinction risk.
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Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates
Richard Grenyer,Richard Grenyer,C. David L. Orme,Sarah F. Jackson,Gavin H. Thomas,Gavin H. Thomas,Richard G. Davies,T. Jonathan Davies,T. Jonathan Davies,Kate E. Jones,Valerie A. Olson,Valerie A. Olson,Robert S. Ridgely,Pamela C. Rasmussen,Tzung-Su Ding,Peter M. Bennett,Tim M. Blackburn,Kevin J. Gaston,John L. Gittleman,John L. Gittleman,Ian P. F. Owens,Ian P. F. Owens +21 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that ‘silver-bullet’ conservation strategies alone will not deliver efficient conservation solutions, and priority areas for biodiversity conservation must be based on high-resolution data from multiple taxa.