The death and life of biodiversity: modeling extinction and resilience on islands

Jan 26, 2019
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Illustration by David Rini
phylogenetics environmental science completed
Liliana M. Dávalos
Liliana M. Dávalos
Professor of Conservation Biology

I’m interested in biodiversity, both its past and its future.

Publications

Actions needed to achieve ambitious objectives of net gains in natural ecosystem area by 2030 and beyond
In late 2021, experts from around the world were approached to provide input to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)—the new framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that will guide interventions to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services for the next three decades.
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Actions needed to achieve ambitious objectives of net gains in natural ecosystem area by 2030 and beyond
Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions
Governments are negotiating actions intended to halt biodiversity loss and put it on a path to recovery by 2050. Here, we show that bending the curve for biodiversity is possible, but only if actions are implemented urgently and in an integrated manner. Connecting these actions to biodiversity outcomes and tracking prog- ress remain a challenge.
Paul Leadley, Cornelia B. Krug, David Obura, Lynne Shannon, Andrew Gonzalez, Maria Cecilia Londoño-Murcia, Adriana Radulovici, Katie Millette, Aleksandar Rankovic, Emma Archer, Frederick Ato Armah, Nic Bax, Anchor Kutchhi, Mark John Costello, Liliana M. Dávalos, Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Fabrice DeClerck, Laura Dee, Franz Essl, Simon Ferrier, Shizuka Hashimoto, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Forest Isbell, Marcel Kok, Shane Lavery, David Leclère, Rafael Loyola, Shuaib Lwasa, Melodie McGeoch, Akira S. Mori, Emily Nicholson, Jose Manuel Ochoa, Kinga Öllerer, Stephen Polasky, Carlo Rondinini, Odirilwe Selomane, Bernardo Strassburg, Rashid Sumaila, Derek P. Tittensor, Eren Turak, Luis Urbina, Maria Vallejos, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez, Peter Verburg, Piero Visconti, Stephen Woodley, Sean Jellesmark
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Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions
Contradictory Phylogenetic Signals in the Laurasiatheria Anomaly Zone
Relationships among laurasiatherian clades represent one of the most highly disputed topics in mammalian phylogeny. In this study, we …
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Contradictory Phylogenetic Signals in the Laurasiatheria Anomaly Zone
Colonial legacies influence biodiversity lessons: how past trade routes and power dynamics shape present-day scientific research and professional opportunities for Caribbean scientists
Scientists recognize the Caribbean archipelago as a biodiversity hotspot and employ it for their research as a “natural laboratory”. …
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Colonial legacies influence biodiversity lessons: how past trade routes and power dynamics shape present-day scientific research and professional opportunities for Caribbean scientists
Where the wild things were: intrinsic and extrinsic extinction predictors in the world's most depleted mammal fauna
Preventing extinctions requires understanding macroecological patterns of vulnerability or persistence. However, correlates of risk can …
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Where the wild things were: intrinsic and extrinsic extinction predictors in the world's most depleted mammal fauna
Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
In her News Feature “An unequal blow” (15 May, p. 700), L. Wade explores how past pandemics disproportionately affected marginalized …
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Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality