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Volume 105(Supplement_1);  August 12, 2008
Colloquium Papers
Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11458–11465. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802812105.
PMCID: PMC2556419
Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians
David B. Wake and Vance T. Vredenburg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11466–11473. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801921105.
PMCID: PMC2556420
Patterns of biodiversity and endemism on Indo-West Pacific coral reefs
Marjorie L. Reaka, Paula J. Rodgers, and Alexei U. Kudla
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11474–11481. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802594105.
PMCID: PMC2556415
Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?
Andy Dobson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Armand M. Kuris, Ryan F. Hechinger, and Walter Jetz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11482–11489. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803232105.
PMCID: PMC2556407
Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands
Dov F. Sax and Steven D. Gaines
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11490–11497. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802290105.
PMCID: PMC2556416
How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?
Stephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He, Richard Condit, Luís Borda-de-Água, James Kellner, and Hans ter Steege
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11498–11504. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801915105.
PMCID: PMC2556410
Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity
Jessica A. Bryant, Christine Lamanna, Hélène Morlon, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist, and Jessica L. Green
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11505–11511. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801920105.
PMCID: PMC2556412
Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities
Steven D. Allison and Jennifer B. H. Martiny
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11512–11519. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801925105.
PMCID: PMC2556421
Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history
Douglas H. Erwin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11520–11527. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801913105.
PMCID: PMC2556409
Extinction and the spatial dynamics of biodiversity
David Jablonski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11528–11535. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801919105.
PMCID: PMC2556417
Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record
John Alroy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11536–11542. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802597105.
PMCID: PMC2556405
Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions
Anthony D. Barnosky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11543–11548. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801918105.
PMCID: PMC2556404
A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity
Michael J. Donoghue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11549–11555. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801962105.
PMCID: PMC2556411
Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity
T. Jonathan Davies, Susanne A. Fritz, Richard Grenyer, C. David L. Orme, Jon Bielby, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, Marcel Cardillo, Kate E. Jones, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11556–11563. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801917105.
PMCID: PMC2556418
Three ambitious (and rather unorthodox) assignments for the field of biodiversity genetics
John C. Avise
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11564–11570. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801924105.
PMCID: PMC2556406
Engaging the public in biodiversity issues
Michael J. Novacek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11571–11578. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802599105.
PMCID: PMC2556408
Where does biodiversity go from here? A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions
Paul R. Ehrlich and Robert M. Pringle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11579–11586. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801911105.
PMCID: PMC2556413
Perspective
Colloquium Paper: In the light of evolution II: Biodiversity and extinction
John C. Avise, Stephen P. Hubbell, and Francisco J. Ayala
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105(Supplement_1): 11453–11457. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802504105.
PMCID: PMC2556414
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