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Florida Museum of Natural History

ArchiveGainesville, Florida, United States
About: Florida Museum of Natural History is a archive organization based out in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Genus. The organization has 771 authors who have published 2647 publications receiving 95761 citations.


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23 Jun 2006-Science
TL;DR: Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once diverse and productive estuaries and coastal seas worldwide show similar patterns: Human impacts have depleted >90% of formerly important species, destroyed >65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality, and accelerated species invasions.
Abstract: Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once diverse and productive estuaries and coastal seas worldwide show similar patterns: Human impacts have depleted >90% of formerly important species, destroyed >65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality, and accelerated species invasions. Twentieth-century conservation efforts achieved partial recovery of upper trophic levels but have so far failed to restore former ecosystem structure and function. Our results provide detailed historical baselines and quantitative targets for ecosystem-based management and marine conservation.

2,795 citations

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Bernhard Misof, Shanlin Liu, Karen Meusemann1, Ralph S. Peters, Alexander Donath, Christoph Mayer, Paul B. Frandsen2, Jessica L. Ware2, Tomas Flouri3, Rolf G. Beutel4, Oliver Niehuis, Malte Petersen, Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco3, Torsten Wappler5, Jes Rust5, Andre J. Aberer3, Ulrike Aspöck6, Ulrike Aspöck7, Horst Aspöck6, Daniela Bartel6, Alexander Blanke8, Simon Berger3, Alexander Böhm6, Thomas R. Buckley9, Brett Calcott10, Junqing Chen, Frank Friedrich11, Makiko Fukui12, Mari Fujita8, Carola Greve, Peter Grobe, Shengchang Gu, Ying Huang, Lars S. Jermiin1, Akito Y. Kawahara13, Lars Krogmann14, Martin Kubiak11, Robert Lanfear15, Robert Lanfear16, Robert Lanfear17, Harald Letsch6, Yiyuan Li, Zhenyu Li, Jiguang Li, Haorong Lu, Ryuichiro Machida8, Yuta Mashimo8, Pashalia Kapli3, Pashalia Kapli18, Duane D. McKenna19, Guanliang Meng, Yasutaka Nakagaki8, José Luis Navarrete-Heredia20, Michael Ott21, Yanxiang Ou, Günther Pass6, Lars Podsiadlowski5, Hans Pohl4, Björn M. von Reumont22, Kai Schütte11, Kaoru Sekiya8, Shota Shimizu8, Adam Slipinski1, Alexandros Stamatakis23, Alexandros Stamatakis3, Wenhui Song, Xu Su, Nikolaus U. Szucsich6, Meihua Tan, Xuemei Tan, Min Tang, Jingbo Tang, Gerald Timelthaler6, Shigekazu Tomizuka8, Michelle D. Trautwein24, Xiaoli Tong25, Toshiki Uchifune8, Manfred Walzl6, Brian M. Wiegmann26, Jeanne Wilbrandt, Benjamin Wipfler4, Thomas K. F. Wong1, Qiong Wu, Gengxiong Wu, Yinlong Xie, Shenzhou Yang, Qing Yang, David K. Yeates1, Kazunori Yoshizawa27, Qing Zhang, Rui Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yunhui Zhang, Jing Zhao, Chengran Zhou, Lili Zhou, Tanja Ziesmann, Shijie Zou, Yingrui Li, Xun Xu, Yong Zhang, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Jun Wang, Karl M. Kjer2, Xin Zhou 
07 Nov 2014-Science
TL;DR: The phylogeny of all major insect lineages reveals how and when insects diversified and provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.
Abstract: Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein-coding genes. Phylogenomic analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequences, with site-specific nucleotide or domain-specific amino acid substitution models, produced statistically robust and congruent results resolving previously controversial phylogenetic relations hips. We dated the origin of insects to the Early Ordovician [~479 million years ago (Ma)], of insect flight to the Early Devonian (~406 Ma), of major extant lineages to the Mississippian (~345 Ma), and the major diversification of holometabolous insects to the Early Cretaceous. Our phylogenomic study provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.

1,998 citations

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01 Jan 1997-Nature
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that between 8 and 6 million years ago, there was a global increase in the biomass of plants using C4 photosynthesis as indicated by changes in the carbon isotope ratios of fossil tooth enamel in Asia, Africa, North America and South America.
Abstract: Between 8 and 6 million years ago, there was a global increase in the biomass of plants using C4 photosynthesis as indicated by changes in the carbon isotope ratios of fossil tooth enamel in Asia, Africa, North America and South America. This abrupt and widespread increase in C4 biomass may be related to a decrease in atmospheric CO2 concentrations below a threshold that favoured C3-photosynthesizing plants. The change occurred earlier at lower latitudes, as the threshold for C3 photosynthesis is higher at warmer temperatures.

1,886 citations

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TL;DR: This is the first examination of barcoding performance in a comprehensively sampled, diverse group (cypraeid marine gastropods, or cowries) and employs a novel phylogenetic approach to calculate intraspecific variation and interspecific divergence.
Abstract: DNA barcoding has attracted attention with promises to aid in species identification and discovery; however, few wellsampled datasets are available to test its performance. We provide the first examination of barcoding performance in a comprehensively sampled, diverse group (cypraeid marine gastropods, or cowries). We utilize previous methods for testing performance and employ a novel phylogenetic approach to calculate intraspecific variation and interspecific divergence. Error rates are estimated for (1) identifying samples against a well-characterized phylogeny, and (2) assisting in species discovery for partially known groups. We find that the lowest overall error for species identification is 4%. In contrast, barcoding performs poorly in incompletely sampled groups. Here, species delineation relies on the use of thresholds, set to differentiate between intraspecific variation and interspecific divergence. Whereas proponents envision a ‘‘barcoding gap’’ between the two, we find substantial overlap, leading to minimal error rates of ;17% in cowries. Moreover, error rates double if only traditionally recognized species are analyzed. Thus, DNA barcoding holds promise for identification in taxonomically well-understood and thoroughly sampled clades. However, the use of thresholds does not bode well for delineating closely related species in taxonomically understudied groups. The promise of barcoding will be realized only if based on solid taxonomic foundations. Citation: Meyer CP, Paulay G (2005) DNA barcoding: Error rates based on comprehensive sampling. PLoS Biol 3(12): e422.

1,701 citations

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21 Jan 2014-eLife
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first systematic analysis of threat for a globally distributed lineage of 1,041 chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras).
Abstract: The rapid expansion of human activities threatens ocean-wide biodiversity. Numerous marine animal populations have declined, yet it remains unclear whether these trends are symptomatic of a chronic accumulation of global marine extinction risk. We present the first systematic analysis of threat for a globally distributed lineage of 1,041 chondrichthyan fishes—sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We estimate that one-quarter are threatened according to IUCN Red List criteria due to overfishing (targeted and incidental). Large-bodied, shallow-water species are at greatest risk and five out of the seven most threatened families are rays. Overall chondrichthyan extinction risk is substantially higher than for most other vertebrates, and only one-third of species are considered safe. Population depletion has occurred throughout the world's ice-free waters, but is particularly prevalent in the Indo-Pacific Biodiversity Triangle and Mediterranean Sea. Improved management of fisheries and trade is urgently needed to avoid extinctions and promote population recovery.

1,467 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Didier Raoult1733267153016
Douglas E. Soltis12761267161
Pamela S. Soltis12054361080
John Terborgh9122635391
Jeff J. Doyle7621630426
S. Blair Hedges6320022015
Neil D. Opdyke561518445
Bruce J. MacFadden5518310786
Mark Brenner5417010891
Carlos Jaramillo5431412814
W. John Kress5416716071
David L. Dilcher5220210497
Edward L. Braun5114413174
Gregor M. Cailliet491507314
Kevin P. Johnson491946900
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