Endangered Species

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center. 
  • Are the ghosts of nature's past haunting ecology today? 
  • Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Blood transcriptomes reveal novel parasitic zoonoses circulating in Madagascar's lemurs. 
  • Bushmeat supply and consumption in a tropical logging concession in northern Congo. 
  • Comparative RNA sequencing reveals substantial genetic variation in endangered primates. 
  • Conservation. CITES designation for endangered rosewood in Madagascar. 
  • Conservation. Elephants, ivory, and trade. 
  • Conservation. High value and long life--double jeopardy for tunas and billfishes. 
  • Conservation: Protection for trade of precious rosewood. 
  • Conservation: forest fragments, facts, and fallacies. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life. 
  • Effects of body condition on buoyancy in endangered North Atlantic right whales. 
  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements. 
  • Endangered species hold clues to human evolution. 
  • Endangered species recovery: A resource allocation problem 
  • Estimating extinction risk with metapopulation models of large-scale fragmentation. 
  • Extinction risks and the conservation of Madagascar's reptiles. 
  • Genomic resources for the endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers. 
  • Genomic signatures of near-extinction and rebirth of the crested ibis and other endangered bird species. 
  • Hidden Loss of Wetlands in China. 
  • How complex do models need to be to predict dispersal of threatened species through matrix habitats? 
  • Incorporating explicit geospatial data shows more species at risk of extinction than the current Red List. 
  • Lifting baselines to address the consequences of conservation success. 
  • Lion populations may be declining in Africa but not as Bauer et al. suggest. 
  • Measuring Terrestrial Area of Habitat (AOH) and Its Utility for the IUCN Red List. 
  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. 
  • Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity. 
  • Pathogen flow: what we need to know. 
  • Quantitative analysis of forest fragmentation in the atlantic forest reveals more threatened bird species than the current red list. 
  • Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing. 
  • Reference genome and demographic history of the most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita. 
  • Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia. 
  • Spatio-temporal gap analysis of OBIS-SEAMAP project data: assessment and way forward. 
  • Species, extinct before we know them? 
  • The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss. 
  • The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals. 
  • The Precision Problem in Conservation and Restoration. 
  • The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection. 
  • The emergent interactions that govern biodiversity change. 
  • US protected lands mismatch biodiversity priorities. 
  • Use of "entertainment" chimpanzees in commercials distorts public perception regarding their conservation status. 
  • Using hierarchical bayes to understand movement, health, and survival in the endangered north atlantic right whale. 
  • Using nonlinear time warping to estimate North Pacific right whale calling depths in the Bering Sea. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Jowers, Kay, Senior Policy Associate, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative
  • Li, Binbin, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Duke Kunshan University, Nicholas School of the Environment
  • Nowacek, Douglas, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Distinguished Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative
  • Olander, Lydia, Adjunct Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Divisi, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Yoder, Anne Daphne, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Duke Science & Society