Walter Jetz

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe six different statistical approaches to infer correlates of species distributions, for both presence/absence (binary response) and species abundance data (poisson or normally distributed response), while accounting for spatial autocorrelation in model residuals: autocovariate regression; spatial eigenvector mapping; generalised least squares; (conditional and simultaneous) autoregressive models and generalised estimating equations.

TL;DR: It is found that birds have undergone a strong increase in diversification rate from about 50 million years ago to the near present, with a number of significant rate increases, both within songbirds and within other young and mostly temperate radiations including the waterfowl, gulls and woodpeckers.

TL;DR: A global species-level compilation of key attributes for all 9993 and 5400 extant bird and mammal species derived from key literature sources enables a much finer distinction of species' foraging ecology than typical categorical guild assignments allow.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a golden age of animal tracking science has begun and that the upcoming years will be a time of unprecedented exciting discoveries.

TL;DR: This work investigates the global-scale species-richness pattern of vascular plants and examines its environmental and potential historical determinants, highlighting that different hypotheses about the causes of diversity gradients are not mutually exclusive, but likely act synergistically with water–energy dynamics playing a dominant role.