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Richard Grenyer
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 55
Citations - 7862
Richard Grenyer is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Phylogenetic diversity. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 53 publications receiving 6931 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Grenyer include Royal Botanic Gardens & Imperial College London.
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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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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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Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots
Félix Forest,Félix Forest,Richard Grenyer,Mathieu Rouget,T. Jonathan Davies,T. Jonathan Davies,Richard M. Cowling,Daniel P. Faith,Andrew Balmford,John C. Manning,Şerban Procheş,Michelle van der Bank,Gail Reeves,Terry A. Hedderson,Vincent Savolainen +14 more
TL;DR: This work shows taxon richness to be decoupled from PD, using a biome-wide phylogenetic analysis of the flora of an undisputed biodiversity hotspot—the Cape of South Africa and demonstrates that PD protection is the best strategy for preserving feature diversity in the Cape.
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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.
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The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation
Uri Roll,Uri Roll,Anat Feldman,Maria Novosolov,Allen Allison,Aaron M. Bauer,Rodolphe Bernard,Monika Böhm,Fernando Castro-Herrera,Laurent Chirio,Ben Collen,Guarino R. Colli,Lital Dabool,Indraneil Das,Tiffany M. Doan,L. Lee Grismer,Marinus S. Hoogmoed,Yuval Itescu,Fred Kraus,Matthew LeBreton,Amir Lewin,Marcio Martins,Erez Maza,Danny Meirte,Zoltán T. Nagy,Cristiano Nogueira,Olivier S. G. Pauwels,Daniel Pincheira-Donoso,Gary D. Powney,Roberto Sindaco,Oliver J.S. Tallowin,Omar Torres-Carvajal,Jean-François Trape,Enav Vidan,Peter Uetz,Philipp Wagner,Yuezhao Wang,C. David L. Orme,Richard Grenyer,Shai Meiri,Shai Meiri +40 more
TL;DR: It is shown that additional conservation actions are needed to effectively protect reptiles, particularly lizards and turtles, and that adding reptile knowledge to a global complementarity conservation priority scheme identifies many locations that consequently become important.