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Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals
The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to evaluate extinction dynamics, but limited data …
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Spatial autocorrelation reduces model precision and predictive power in deforestation analyses
Generalized linear models are often used to identify covariates of landscape processes and to model land‐use change. Generalized linear …
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Integrating remotely sensed fires for predicting deforestation for REDD+
Fire is an important tool in tropical forest management, as it alters forest composition, structure, and the carbon budget. The United …
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Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss
Comparative methods are often used to infer loss or gain of complex phenotypes, but few studies take advantage of genes tightly linked …
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Recent extinctions disturb path to equilibrium diversity in Caribbean bats
Islands are ideal systems to model temporal changes in biodiversity and reveal the influence of humans on natural communities. Although …
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Deforestation and Coca Cultivation Rooted in Twentieth-Century Development Projects
Most of the world’s coca—the source of cocaine—is grown in the Amazonian forests of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. As cultivation …
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Records of the cave-dwelling bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Hispaniola with an examination of seasonal variation in diversity
Despite a long history of scientific collection of bats, Hispaniola remains the least studied island of the Greater Antilles. Using …
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Phylogeny and divergence times of lemurs inferred with recent and ancient fossils in the tree
Paleontological and neontological systematics seek to answer evolutionary questions with different data sets. Phylogenies inferred for …
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Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity
The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been controversial since the 19th century. Support for …
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Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity
Bayesian hierarchical models suggest oldest known plant-visiting bat was omnivorous
The earliest record of plant visiting in bats dates to the Middle Miocene of La Venta, the world’s most diverse tropical …
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