John L. Gittleman
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- Global trends in emerging infectious diseases (2008) (5873)
- The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection (2014) (2265)
- The Future of Biodiversity (1995) (2167)
- The delayed rise of present-day mammals (2007) (1994)
- Predicting extinction risk in declining species (2000) (1470)
- PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals (2009) (1328)
- Energy Allocation in Mammalian Reproduction (1988) (786)
- EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA (2010) (722)
- Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies (2003) (670)
- Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution (1989) (598)
- Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia) (1999) (572)
- Adaptation: Statistics and a Null Model for Estimating Phylogenetic Effects (1990) (547)
- Nonrandom extinction and the loss of evolutionary history. (2000) (544)
- The Impact of Species Concept on Biodiversity Studies (2004) (540)
- Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores (2004) (535)
- A Common Rule for the Scaling of Carnivore Density (2002) (512)
- Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates (2006) (442)
- Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines (2013) (436)
- Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction (2015) (393)
- Preserving the Tree of Life (2003) (371)
- The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals (2008) (363)
- Carnivore home-range size, metabolic needs and ecology (1982) (355)
- The Fast‐Slow Continuum in Mammalian Life History: An Empirical Reevaluation (2007) (347)
- Biological Correlates of Extinction Risk in Bats (2003) (339)
- Why are distasteful prey not cryptic? (1980) (337)
- Hotspots and the conservation of evolutionary history (2002) (316)
- Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates (1985) (307)
- Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation. (2006) (276)
- Carnivore brain size, behavioral ecology and phylogeny (1986) (272)
- The (Super)Tree of Life: Procedures, Problems, and Prospects (2002) (269)
- Constraints on group size in primates and carnivores: population density and day-range as assays of exploitation competition (1993) (266)
- Promiscuity and the primate immune system. (2000) (247)
- The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals (2010) (242)
- Strategies for carnivore conservation: lessons from contemporary extinctions (2001) (241)
- A complete phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even‐toed hoofed mammals (Cetartiodactyla) (2005) (233)
- Truth or Consequences: Effects of Phylogenetic Accuracy on Two Comparative Methods (1994) (224)
- Life History Patterns and the Comparative Social Ecology of Carnivores (1984) (223)
- Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending (2017) (216)
- Carnivore Group Living: Comparative Trends (1989) (211)
- Species co-existence and character divergence across carnivores. (2007) (209)
- Sexual dimorphism in the canines and skulls of carnivores: effects of size, phylogency, and behavioural ecology (1997) (205)
- Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density (2007) (204)
- Carnivore Life History Patterns: Allometric, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Associations (1986) (200)
- Sexual size dimorphism in mammals (2007) (194)
- Phylogeny and Conservation (2009) (186)
- BATS, CLOCKS, AND ROCKS: DIVERSIFICATION PATTERNS IN CHIROPTERA (2005) (165)
- Patterns of Energy Output During Reproduction in Carnivores (1989) (161)
- Clutch size in spiders: is more better? (1994) (161)
- On Comparing Comparative Methods (1992) (160)
- Size, Life-History Traits, and Social Organization in the Canidae: A Reevaluation (1996) (153)
- Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries (1991) (150)
- Mammals of the Neotropics: the Northern Neotropics. Vol. 1. Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, John F. Eisenberg. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1989), ix, +449. Price $85.00 hardback, $34.95 paperback (1990) (138)
- The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. (2016) (123)
- Body size and species–richness in carnivores and primates (1998) (121)
- Quaternary Climate Change and the Geographic Ranges of Mammals (2009) (119)
- Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution (1989) (119)
- Carnivore olfactory bulb size allometry phylogeny and ecology (1991) (117)
- Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity (2008) (116)
- Genetic relatedness, coalitions and social behaviour of white-nosed coatis, Nasua narica (1997) (115)
- Parasites and the Evolutionary Diversification of Primate Clades (2004) (112)
- Erratum: The delayed rise of present-day mammals (2008) (108)
- Correlates of Species Richness in Mammals: Body Size, Life History, and Ecology (2005) (106)
- The maximum rate of mammal evolution (2012) (104)
- The phylogeny of parental care in fishes (1981) (102)
- Home range scaling: intraspecific and comparative trends (1991) (101)
- Dispersal, philopatry, and genetic relatedness in a social carnivore: comparing males and females (1998) (98)
- The evolution of conspicuous coloration: Some experiments in bad taste (1980) (96)
- The social organization of the kinkajou Potos flavus (Procyonidae) (2001) (93)
- Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates (2004) (93)
- Global patterns in the phylogenetic structure of island mammal assemblages (2008) (92)
- A comparative study of white blood cell counts and disease risk in carnivores (2003) (91)
- Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates (2009) (88)
- Hunting to extinction: biology and regional economy influence extinction risk and the impact of hunting in artiodactyls (2007) (80)
- ARE THE PANDAS SUCCESSFUL SPECIALISTS OR EVOLUTIONARY FAILURES (1994) (78)
- Female brain size and parental care in carnivores. (1994) (75)
- Plausible alternatives to bottlenecks to explain reduced genetic diversity. (1989) (74)
- The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography of modern mammal diversity (2011) (70)
- The delayed rise of present-day mammals (vol 446, pg 507, 2007) (2008) (68)
- Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbour similar parasite assemblages. (2014) (68)
- Variation in home range and use of habitat in the striped skunk ( Mephitis mephitis ) (2000) (68)
- Why are some species more commonly afflicted by arthritis than others? A comparative study of spondyloarthropathy in primates and carnivores (2007) (55)
- ARE PINNIPEDS FUNCTIONALLY DIFFERENT FROM FISSIPED CARNIVORES? THE IMPORTANCE OF PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSES (2000) (49)
- Traits, trees and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals (2012) (48)
- The Risk of Extinction--What You Don't Know Will Hurt You (2001) (47)
- The utility of chemical signals as phylogenetic characters: an example from the Felidae (2001) (44)
- A Metric for Analyzing Taxonomic Patterns of Extinction Risk (2002) (44)
- Biological diversity: where is it? (1992) (44)
- Supertrees are a necessary not-so-evil: a comment on Gatesy et al. (2003) (43)
- Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing (2014) (40)
- Ailurus fulgens (2022) (40)
- Phylogeny and Conservation: Age and area revisited: identifying global patterns and implications for conservation (2005) (39)
- The life history legacy of evolutionary body size change in carnivores (2003) (35)
- The path to host extinction can lead to loss of generalist parasites. (2015) (34)
- Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: A global analysis of carnivores (2015) (30)
- Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution (2013) (30)
- Crying wolf in North America (1991) (30)
- "References" for Carnivore Conservation (2001) (26)
- How global extinctions impact regional biodiversity in mammals (2012) (26)
- Size‐assortative choice and mate availability influences hybridization between red wolves (Canis rufus) and coyotes (Canis latrans) (2018) (25)
- The problematic red wolf. (1995) (23)
- Heptner, V. G., and Sludskii, A. A. 1992. Mammals of the Soviet Union. Volume II, Part 2. Carnivora (Hyaenas and Cats). Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation (1993) (23)
- Flippers versus feet: comparative trends in aquatic and non‐aquatic carnivores (2001) (23)
- Phylogeny can make the mid-domain effect an inappropriate null model (2005) (20)
- Home Range Size and Social Behavior of Kinkajous (Potos flavus) in the Republic of Panama (1995) (19)
- Carnivores and ecologists on the road to Damascus (1990) (18)
- Using diets of Canis breeding pairs to assess resource partitioning between sympatric red wolves and coyotes (2017) (16)
- Using complete phylogenies in comparative biology (2004) (16)
- Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: Effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links. (2019) (16)
- Reading between the lines - is allometric scaling useful? (1997) (14)
- Behavioral Energetics of Lactation in a Herbivorous Carnivore, the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) (2010) (14)
- Behavioral Energetics of Lactation in a Herbivorous Carnivore, the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) (2010) (14)
- Grenyer et al. reply (2007) (14)
- Origin of the Red Wolf: Response to Nowak and Federoff and Gardener (1998) (13)
- Home range movements of solitary, reproductive female coatis, Nasua narica, in south-eastern Arizona (1994) (11)
- Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates (vol 444, pg 93, 2006) (2009) (7)
- Scent‐marking in captive red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) (1989) (7)
- Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution. Vol. 2 (1998) (7)
- The description and number of undiscovered mammal species (2018) (6)
- Introduction to the Symposium: Energetics and Animal Behavior (1988) (6)
- HANGING BEARS FROM PHYLOGENETIC TREES : INVESTIGATING PATTERNS OF MACROEVOLUTION (2007) (5)
- Turkey's biodiversity funding on the rise. (2013) (5)
- Phylogeny and Conservation: Effects of human processes (2005) (4)
- Correlates of Carnivory: Approaches and Answers (2009) (3)
- Rates of Metabolism and Evolution (2012) (3)
- Tidal Flat Ecology: An Experimental Approach to Species Interactions by K. Riess (1989) (3)
- The Giant Pandas of Wolong by George B. Schaller Hu Jinchu Pan Wenshi Zhu Jing (1985) (3)
- Phylogeny and Conservation: List of contributors (2005) (3)
- The Florida panther: an editorial perspective (2006) (2)
- CHAPTER 2 Sexual size dimorphism in mammals (2007) (2)
- Effective global conservation strategies (2007) (1)
- 4. Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies (2001) (1)
- Evolution of life histories of mammals: Theory and pattern: edited by Mark S. Boyce, Yale University Press, 1988. $45.00 (xvi + 373 pages) ISBN 0 300 04084 9 (1989) (1)
- Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis. Based on a Symposium Held at the American Museum of Natural History, March 1990. Niles Eldredge (1993) (1)
- Corrigendum: Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending (2017) (1)
- Reply from s.e. Cates and j.L. Gittleman. (1998) (1)
- Books Received (2004) (0)
- Microsatellite analysis of Kindajou social organization (2000) (0)
- Book reviews (1989) (0)
- Response : Extinction Rates (1996) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- 1 Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending 2 3 (2017) (0)
- Editorial (2003) (0)
- Extinction: Complexity of assessing risk - Reply (2001) (0)
- S EIDENSTICKER , J., C HRISTIE , S. & J ACKSON , P. (Eds). 1999. Riding the tiger: tiger conservation in human-dominated landscapes . Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 383 pp. ISBN 0-521-64057-1 (hard cover), 0-521-64835-1 (soft cover). (2000) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Corrigendum (2017) (0)
- Book reviews (1988) (0)
- John F. Eisenberg Mammals of the Neotropics: the Norther (1990) (0)
- of modern mammal diversity The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography (2011) (0)
- Book Review:Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution. N. R. Scott-Ram (1991) (0)
- 7. Carnivore Group Living: Comparative Trends (2019) (0)
- Response: extinction rates. (1996) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (1987) (0)
- THE LEGACY OF EXTINCTION RISK: LESSONS FROM GIANT PANDAS AND OTHER THREATENED CARNIVORES (2019) (0)
- Journal of Zoology: Editorial (2003) (0)
- The Legacy of Extinction Risk (2004) (0)
- Measuring emerging disease hotspots (2006) (0)
- Editorial (1998) (0)
- Comparative Behavior and Phylogenetic Analyses: New Wine, Old Bottles (2021) (0)
- 13. Patterns of Energy Output during Reproduction in Carnivores (2019) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Journal of Zoology: Editors' Report for 2002 (2004) (0)
- Book Review:The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction. Michael J. Reiss (1990) (0)
- EDITORIAL (2007) (0)
- Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution. Birds and Mammals. Based on a Conference Held in 1980 in Cambridge, England. Daniel I. Rubenstein , Richard W. Wrangham (1987) (0)
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