The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our
understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines, particularly conservation, …

More than 80% of the global population is at risk of a vector-borne disease, with mosquito-borne
diseases being the largest contributor to human vector-borne disease burden. Although …

Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban
ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk and emergence of zoonotic disease in …

Lassa fever (LF) is increasingly recognized by global health institutions as an important
rodent-borne disease with severe impacts on some of West Africa’s poorest communities. …

Background Integrated, efficient, and global prioritization approaches are necessary to
manage the ongoing loss of species and their associated function. "Evolutionary distinctness" …

Conservation prioritization is dominated by the threat status of candidate species. However,
species differ markedly in the shared genetic information they embody, and this information …

Alien species are a major component of human-induced environmental change. Variation in
the numbers of alien species found in different areas is likely to depend on a combination of …

The amphibian decline and extinction crisis demands urgent action to prevent further large
numbers of species extinctions. Lists of priority species for conservation, based on a …

The introduction of species to locations where they do not naturally occur (termed aliens)
can have far-reaching and unpredictable environmental and economic consequences. …

Evolutionary distinctiveness measures of how evolutionarily isolated a species is relative to
other members of its clade. Recently, distinctiveness metrics that explicitly incorporate time …