The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to evaluate
extinction dynamics, but limited data have hindered our ability to test hypotheses. Here, …

Conservation priority setting based on phylogenetic diversity has frequently been proposed
but rarely implemented. Here, we define a simple index that measures the contribution made …

1. Density estimation is of fundamental importance in wildlife management. The use of camera
traps to estimate animal density has so far been restricted to capture-recapture analysis of …

The Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), an obligate freshwater odontocete
known only from the middle-lower Yangtze River system and neighbouring Qiantang River in …

Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction chronologies are poorly understood across eastern
and south-east Asia. Previous radiometric studies suggested that surprisingly many extinct …

The European wild ass (Equus hydruntinus) is a globally extinct Eurasian equid. This
species was widespread in Europe and southwest Asia during the Late Pleistocene, but its …

No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as
the approximately 280 genera grouped as ‘South American native ungulates’. To Charles …

To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have
affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species …

Local ecological knowledge can provide a unique source of data for conservation, especially
in efforts to investigate the status of rare or possibly extinct species, but it is unlikely to …

The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis) is endemic to
the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China. It is the only freshwater population …