Check our new @biorxivpreprint where we propose the use of neighbor-joining trees to represent and quantify #functional #diversity. Combining the advantages of tree and hypervolume representations, with all functions available at #rstats package BAT
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.27.518065
Our perspective on the potential of deep-time palaeontology to aid conservation prioritisation is now published in @FrontiersIn Eco & Evo (Integrating Conservation and Paleobiology to Manage Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.959364/full
@antonelli_lab
My book Animals in Stone, Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time is now #openaccess, available here https://brill.com/display/title/15305 It is, for a change, NOT about island mammals 🙂 but about #ethnozoology #SouthAsia #Sculpture #temples & #stupas
Coming in 2023: an exciting special feature, Leveraging #NaturalHistoryCollections to understand global change.
Join @BritishEcolSoc and @NHM_London for the launch event in person and online on 14 Feb!
Spaces are limited, so sign up now! 👇 https://bit.ly/3AzbDWV
The Gargano Penninsula of Italy was once an island during the Miocene and like many islands the animals evolved into many unusual endemic species. Like this Hoplitomeryx, a small deer-like animal with 5 horns and large canine teeth.