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The role of selective extinction in promoting cooperation in a many demes model by Kroumi, Dhaker

“…•Diffusion approximation captures evolutionary dynamics.,•Uniform extinction suppresses cooperation in structured populations.,•Targeted extinction can promote…”
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Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers by Goulson, Dave, Nicholls, Elizabeth, Botías, Cristina, Rotheray, Ellen L

“…Bees are subject to numerous pressures in the modern world. The abundance and diversity of flowers has declined…”
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Complete genomes reveal signatures of demographic and genetic declines in the woolly mammoth by Palkopoulou, Eleftheria, Mallick, Swapan, Skoglund, Pontus, Enk, Jacob, Rohland, Nadin, Li, Heng, Omrak, Ayça, Vartanyan, Sergey, Poinar, Hendrik, Götherström, Anders, Reich, David, Dalén, Love

“… small and may be subject to intrinsic threats, including loss of genetic diversity and inbreeding…”
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The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation by Durant, Sarah M, Mitchell, Nicholas, Groom, Rosemary, Pettorelli, Nathalie, Ipavec, Audrey, Jacobson, Andrew P, Woodroffe, Rosie, Böhm, Monika, Hunter, Luke T B, Becker, Matthew S, Broekhuis, Femke, Bashir, Sultana, Andresen, Leah, Aschenborn, Ortwin, Beddiaf, Mohammed, Belbachir, Farid, Belbachir-Bazi, Amel, Berbash, Ali, Brandao de Matos Machado, Iracelma, Breitenmoser, Christine, Chege, Monica, Cilliers, Deon, Davies-Mostert, Harriet, Dickman, Amy J, Ezekiel, Fabiano, Farhadinia, Mohammad S, Funston, Paul, Henschel, Philipp, Horgan, Jane, de Iongh, Hans H, Jowkar, Houman, Klein, Rebecca, Lindsey, Peter Andrew, Marker, Laurie, Marnewick, Kelly, Melzheimer, Joerg, Merkle, Johnathan, M'soka, Jassiel, Msuha, Maurus, O'Neill, Helen, Parker, Megan, Purchase, Gianetta, Sahailou, Samaila, Saidu, Yohanna, Samna, Abdoulkarim, Schmidt-Küntzel, Anne, Selebatso, Eda, Sogbohossou, Etotépé A, Soultan, Alaaeldin, Stone, Emma, van der Meer, Esther, van Vuuren, Rudie, Wykstra, Mary, Young-Overton, Kim

“…Establishing and maintaining protected areas (PAs) are key tools for biodiversity conservation. However, this approach is insufficient for many species,…”
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Evolutionary rescue and the limits of adaptation by Bell, Graham

“…Populations subject to severe stress may be rescued by natural selection, but its operation is restricted by ecological and genetic constraints…”
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Fish community reassembly after a coral mass mortality: higher trophic groups are subject to increased rates of extinction by Alonso, David, Pinyol-Gallemí, Aleix, Alcoverro, Teresa, Arthur, Rohan

“…Since Gleason and Clements, our understanding of community dynamics has been influenced by theories emphasising either dispersal or niche assembly as central…”
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Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles by Wallace, Bryan P., DiMatteo, Andrew D., Bolten, Alan B., Chaloupka, Milani Y., Hutchinson, Brian J., Abreu-Grobois, F. Alberto, Mortimer, Jeanne A., Seminoff, Jeffrey A., Amorocho, Diego, Bjorndal, Karen A., Bourjea, Jérôme, Bowen, Brian W., Briseño Dueñas, Raquel, Casale, Paolo, Choudhury, B. C., Costa, Alice, Dutton, Peter H., Fallabrino, Alejandro, Finkbeiner, Elena M., Girard, Alexandre, Girondot, Marc, Hamann, Mark, Hurley, Brendan J., López-Mendilaharsu, Milagros, Marcovaldi, Maria Angela, Musick, John A., Nel, Ronel, Pilcher, Nicolas J., Troëng, Sebastian, Witherington, Blair, Mast, Roderic B.

“… Priority-setting is especially important for geographically widespread species with distinct populations subject to multiple threats that operate on different spatial and temporal scales…”
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Resolving when (and where) the Thylacine went extinct by Brook, Barry W., Sleightholme, Stephen R., Campbell, Cameron R., Jarić, Ivan, Buettel, Jessie C.

“…Like the Dodo and Passenger Pigeon before it, the predatory marsupial Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), or ‘Tasmanian tiger’, has become an iconic symbol of…”
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Neotropical biodiversity: timing and potential drivers by Rull, Valentí

“… Although these studies provide new insights into the subject, they are sensitive to dating approaches and targets, and can eventually lead to biased conclusions…”
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Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species by Schindler, Daniel E., Hilborn, Ray, Chasco, Brandon, Boatright, Christopher P., Quinn, Thomas P., Rogers, Lauren A., Webster, Michael S.

“…Population diversity boosts fishery resilience The role of species diversity in ecosystem stability is well appreciated, but population diversity within a…”
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Genome sequencing of the extinct Eurasian wild aurochs, Bos primigenius, illuminates the phylogeography and evolution of cattle by Park, Stephen D E, Magee, David A., McGettigan, Paul A., Teasdale, Matthew D., Edwards, Ceiridwen J., Lohan, Amanda J., Murphy, Alison, Braud, Martin, Donoghue, Mark T., Liu, Yuan, Chamberlain, Andrew T., Rue-Albrecht, Kévin, Schroeder, Steven, Spillane, Charles, Tai, Shuaishuai, Bradley, Daniel G., Sonstegard, Tad S., Loftus, Brendan J., MacHugh, David E.

“… status of aurochs, whether gene flow from aurochs into early domestic populations occurred, and which genomic regions were subject to selection processes during and after…”
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Morphological complexity promotes origination and extinction rates in ammonoids by Miao, Luyi, Liu, Xiaokang, Brayard, Arnaud, Korn, Dieter, Dai, Xu, Song, Haijun

“…, such as the zero-force evolutionary law and Cope's rule. However, the relationship between morphological complexity and turnover rates remains poorly defined because of the lack of suitable measures for various subjects…”
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Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations by Olusanya, Oluwafunmilola, Khudiakova, Ksenia, Sachdeva, Himani

“… Here, we investigate this eco-evolutionary feedback in a metapopulation consisting of local demes connected via migration, with individuals subject to deleterious mutation at a large number of loci…”
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Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae by Nascimento, João C S, Pires, Mathias M

“…Environmental changes and interactions with other groups can influence the balance between speciation and extinction within a clade. Disentangling those…”
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Variation in environmental stochasticity dramatically affects viability and extinction time in a predator–prey system with high prey group cohesion by Feng, Tao, Milne, Russell, Wang, Hao

“…–prey system subject to the Allee effect and Holling type IV functional response, modeling an environment in which the prey has high group cohesion…”
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Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems by Cardinale, Bradley J., Srivastava, Diane S., Emmett Duffy, J., Wright, Justin P., Downing, Amy L., Sankaran, Mahesh, Jouseau, Claire

“…Species loss and productivity The question of whether species extinction alters the productivity of communities and ecosystem function is the subject of heated controversy…”
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Understanding evolutionary rescue and parallelism in response to environmental stress by Freitas, Osmar, Campos, Paulo R A

“… at the genotypic level between independent populations facing environmental stress and subject to different demographic regimes…”
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Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon by Hung, Chih-Ming, Shaner, Pei-Jen L, Zink, Robert M, Liu, Wei-Chung, Chu, Te-Chin, Huang, Wen-San, Li, Shou-Hsien

“…To assess the role of human disturbances in species' extinction requires an understanding of the species population history before human impact. The passenger…”
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The fate of South America's endemic mammalian fauna in response to the most dramatic Cenozoic climate disruption by Buffan, Lucas, Condamine, Fabien L, Stutz, Narla S, Pujos, François, Antoine, Pierre-Olivier, Marivaux, Laurent

“…Around 34 Mya, the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) marked the most dramatic global climatic cooling of the Cenozoic. On a planetary scale, paleontological…”
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Demographic and life history traits explain patterns in species vulnerability to extinction by Hernández-Yáñez, Haydée, Kim, Su Yeon, Che-Castaldo, Judy P.

“…As ecosystems face disruption of community dynamics and habitat loss, the idea of determining ahead of time which species can become extinct is an important subject in conservation biology. A species…”
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