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High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change
PaperThis landmark study produced the first globally consistent, high-resolution maps of forest loss and gain in the 21st century using satellite imagery, quantifying deforestation at fine scale across the…
Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S.A., Tyukavina, A., et al. · Science · 2013
Phylogeny of the great cats with fossil taxa and missing characters
PaperThis morphological study reconstructed relationships among the pantherine cats while explicitly incorporating fossil taxa and testing how missing data affect tree inference. Working from cranial and s…
Christiansen P · Cladistics · 2008
Research overview: fix-success bias under canopy and rugged terrain
OverviewGPS collars do not always acquire a position, and crucially, the probability of failure is not random: dense canopy, steep terrain, and an animal resting in a cave or thicket all suppress fixes. This…
Supermatrix and Species Tree Methods Resolve Relationships Within Panthera
PaperThe big cats of the genus Panthera proved historically difficult to resolve because of rapid speciation and conflicting gene trees. This study assembled a large multilocus supermatrix and applied both…
Brian W. Davis, Gang Li, William J. Murphy · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010
Supermatrix and species-tree methods resolve relationships within Panthera
PaperRelationships among the big cats long resisted resolution because of short internal branches and conflicting markers. This study assembled a large multi-gene dataset and applied both concatenated supe…
Davis BW, Li G, Murphy WJ · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010