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Body size evolution in mammals: complexity in tempo and mode
COOPER, NATALIE; PURVIS, ANDY (University of Chicago Press, 2010)Body size correlates with virtually every aspect of species? biology, so understanding the tempo and mode of its evolution is of key importance in macroecology and macroevolution. Here we use body-mass data from 3473 of ... -
A common tendency for phylogenetic overdispersion in mammalian assemblages
COOPER, NATALIE; RODRIGUEZ, JESUS; PURVIS, ANDY (The Royal Society, 2008)Competition has long been proposed as an important force in structuring mammalian communities. Although early work recognised that competition has a phylogenetic dimension, only with recent increases in the availability ... -
Host longevity and parasite species richness in mammals.
COOPER, NATALIE; KAMILAR, JASON M; NUNN, CHARLES L (Public Library of Science, 2012)Hosts and parasites co-evolve, with each lineage exerting selective pressures on the other. Thus, parasites may influence host life-history characteristics, such as longevity, and simultaneously host life-history may ... -
Identifying future zoonotic disease threats: Where are the gaps in our understanding of primate infectious diseases?
COOPER, NATALIE (2013)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Emerging infectious diseases often originate in wildlife, making it important to identify infectious agents in wild populations. It is widely acknowledged that wild animals are incompletely ... -
Macroecology and extinction risk correlates of frogs
COOPER, NATALIE; BIELBY, JON; THOMAS, GAVIN H; PURVIS, ANDY (Blackwell Publishing, 2008)Aim Our aim was to test whether extinction risk in frogs could be predicted from their body size, fecundity or geographic range size. Because small geographic range size is a correlate of extinction risk in many taxa, we ... -
Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information.
COOPER, NATALIE; JACKSON, ANDREW (2013)Body size and metabolic rate both fundamentally constrain how species interact with their environment, and hence ultimately affect their niche. While many mechanisms leading to these constraints have been explored, their ... -
Molecular and Phenotypic Data Support the Recognition of the Wakatobi Flowerpecker (Dicaeum kuehni) from the Unique and Understudied Sulawesi Region
KELLY, DAVID; COOPER, NATALIE; MARPLES, NICOLA (2014)Accurate estimates of species richness are essential to macroecological and macroevolutionary research, as well as to the effective management and conservation of biodiversity. The resolution of taxonomic relationships is ... -
Phylogenetic comparative approaches for studying niche conservatism
COOPER, NATALIE; JETZ, WALTER; FRECKLETON, ROB P (2010)Analyses of phylogenetic niche conservatism (PNC) are becoming increasingly common. However, each analysis makes subtly different assumptions about the evolutionary mechanism that generates patterns of niche conservatism. ... -
Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals
COOPER, NATALIE (2011)Phylogenetic niche conservatism is the pattern where close relatives occupy similar niches, whereas distant relatives are more dissimilar. We suggest that niche conservatism will vary across clades in relation to their ... -
Phylogenetic host specificity and understanding parasite sharing in primates.
COOPER, NATALIE (2012)Understanding how parasites are transmitted to new species is of great importance for human health, agriculture and conservation. However, it is still unclear why some parasites are shared by many species, while others ... -
Specialization and the road to academic success
COOPER, NATALIE; BELMAKER, JONATHAN; LEE, TIEN MING; WILMAN, HAMISH (Ecological Society of America, 2011)The relative merits of focusing research on few areas of science versus generalizing across topics have important implications for how academics conduct science. Little is known, however, about how research breadth and ... -
What factors shape rates of phenotypic evolution? A comparative study of cranial morphology of four mammalian clades
COOPER, NATALIE; PURVIS, ANDY (2009)Understanding why rates of morphological evolution vary is a major goal in evolutionary biology. Classical work suggests that body size, interspecific competition, geographic range size and specialisation may all be ...