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Sören Faurby
Senior Lecturer
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences-
AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their
Traits
Ferran Sayol, Joseph P. Wayman, Paul Dufour, Thomas E. Martin, Julian P. Hume, Maria Wagner Jorgensen, Natalia Martinez-Rubio, Ariadna Sanglas, Filipa C. Soares, Rob Cooke, Chase D. Mendenhall, Jay R. Margolis, Juan Carlos Illera, Rhys Taylor Lemoine, Eva Benavides, Oriol Lapiedra, Kostas A. Triantis, Alex L. Pigot, Joseph A. Tobias, Sören Faurby, Thomas J. Matthews
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY - 2024 -
Niche filling predicts evolutionary trajectories in insular bird
communities
Paul Dufour, Ferran Sayol, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Rob Cooke, Sören Faurby
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY - 2024 -
Reliable biogeography requires fossils: insights from a new species-level phylogeny of extinct and living
carnivores
Sören Faurby, Daniele Silvestro, Lars Werdelin, Alexandre Antonelli
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES - 2024 -
Deforestation limits evolutionary rescue under climate change in Amazonian
lizards
Josué Azevedo, Sören Faurby, Guarino R. Colli, Alexandre Antonelli, Fernanda P. Werneck
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS - 2024 -
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in
birds
Paul Dufour, Ferran Sayol, Rob Cooke, Tim M. Blackburn, Laure Gallien, Michael Griesser, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Sören Faurby
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES - 2024 -
Expert-based range maps cannot be replicated using data-driven methods but macroecological conclusions arising from them
can
Heléne Aronsson, Alexander Zizka, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY - 2024 -
Two Major Extinction Events in the Evolutionary History of Turtles: One Caused by an Asteroid, the Other by
Hominins
Anieli G. Pereira, Alexandre Antonelli, Daniele Silvestro, Sören Faurby
AMERICAN NATURALIST - 2024 -
Rediscovery of the lost skink Proscelotes aenea and implications for
conservation
A. Puruleia, C. Nanvonamuquitxo, M. Ernesto, A. Jamal, I. Amade, W. Monia, Y. Massingue, L. Verburgt, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli, Allison L. Perrigo, Harith Farooq
Scientific Reports - 2023 -
Apparent effect of range size and fruit colour on palm diversification may be
spurious
Adrian Hill, Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez, Nicolas Chazot, C. Cassia-Silva, Sören Faurby, L. Herrera-Alsina, Christine D. Bacon
Journal of Biogeography - 2023 -
Late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions have strongly reduced mammalian vegetation
consumption
R. O. Pedersen, Sören Faurby, J. C. Svenning
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2023 -
Shifts in ecosystem equilibria following trophic
rewilding
Selwyn Hoeks, Mark A.J. Huijbregts, Coline C.F. Boonman, Sören Faurby, Jens C. Svenning, Michael B.J. Harfoot, Luca Santini
Diversity and Distributions - 2023 -
Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction
waves
Robert S. Cooke, Ferran Sayol, Tobias Andermann, Tim M. Blackburn, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Nature Communications - 2023 -
Functional and historical drivers of leaf shape evolution in Palms
(Arecaceae)
Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez, Nicolas Chazot, T. Emilio, Johan Uddling, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby, Christine D. Bacon
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2023 -
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic
mammals
B. M. Farina, Sören Faurby, Daniele Silvestro
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences - 2023 -
A call for improving the Key Biodiversity Areas
framework
Harith Farooq, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation - 2023 -
Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and
use
Alexandre Antonelli, R. J. Smith, Allison L. Perrigo, A. Crottini, J. Hackel, Weston L. Testo, Harith Farooq, Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez, N. Andela, Tobias Andermann, A. M. Andriamanohera, S. Andriambololonera, S. P. Bachman, Christine D. Bacon, W. J. Baker, F. Belluardo, C. Birkinshaw, J. S. Borrell, S. Cable, N. A. Canales, J. D. Carrillo, R. Clegg, C. Clubbe, Robert S. Cooke, Gabriel Damasco, S. Dhanda, Daniel Edler, Sören Faurby, Paola De Lima Ferreira, B. L. Fisher, F. Forest, L. M. Gardiner, S. M. Goodman, O. M. Grace, T. B. Guedes, M. C. Henniges, R. Hill, C. E. R. Lehmann, II Lowry, L. Marline, P. Matos-Maraví, J. Moat, B. Neves, M. G. C. Nogueira, R. E. Onstein, A. S. T. Papadopulos, O. A. Perez-Escobar, L. N. Phelps, P. B. Phillipson, S. Pironon, N. A. S. Przelomska, M. Rabarimanarivo, D. Rabehevitra, J. Raharimampionona, M. T. Rajaonah, F. Rajaonary, L. R. Rajaovelona, M. Rakotoarinivo, A. A. Rakotoarisoa, S. E. Rakotoarisoa, H. N. Rakotomalala, F. Rakotonasolo, B. A. Ralaiveloarisoa, M. Ramirez-Herranz, J. E. N. Randriamamonjy, T. Randriamboavonjy, V. Randrianasolo, A. Rasolohery, A. N. Ratsifandrihamanana, N. Ravololomanana, V. Razafiniary, H. Razanajatovo, E. Razanatsoa, M. Rivers, F. Sayol, Daniele Silvestro, M. S. Vorontsova, K. Walker, B. E. Walker, P. Wilkin, J. Williams, T. Ziegler, A. Zizka, H. Ralimanana
Science - 2022 -
Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and
opportunities
H. Ralimanana, Allison L. Perrigo, R. J. Smith, J. S. Borrell, Sören Faurby, M. T. Rajaonah, T. Randriamboavonjy, M. S. Vorontsova, Robert S. Cooke, L. N. Phelps, F. Sayol, N. Andela, Tobias Andermann, A. M. Andriamanohera, S. Andriambololonera, S. P. Bachman, Christine D. Bacon, W. J. Baker, F. Belluardo, C. Birkinshaw, S. Cable, N. A. Canales, J. D. Carrillo, R. Clegg, C. Clubbe, A. Crottini, Gabriel Damasco, S. Dhanda, Daniel Edler, Harith Farooq, Paola De Lima Ferreira, B. L. Fisher, F. Forest, L. M. Gardiner, S. M. Goodman, O. M. Grace, T. B. Guedes, J. Hackel, M. C. Henniges, R. Hill, C. E. R. Lehmann, II Lowry, L. Marline, P. Matos-Maraví, J. Moat, B. Neves, M. G. C. Nogueira, R. E. Onstein, A. S. T. Papadopulos, O. A. Perez-Escobar, P. B. Phillipson, S. Pironon, N. A. S. Przelomska, M. Rabarimanarivo, D. Rabehevitra, J. Raharimampionona, F. Rajaonary, L. R. Rajaovelona, M. Rakotoarinivo, A. A. Rakotoarisoa, S. E. Rakotoarisoa, H. N. Rakotomalala, F. Rakotonasolo, B. A. Ralaiveloarisoa, M. Ramirez-Herranz, J. E. N. Randriamamonjy, V. Randrianasolo, A. Rasolohery, A. N. Ratsifandrihamanana, N. Ravololomanana, V. Razafiniary, H. Razanajatovo, E. Razanatsoa, M. Rivers, Daniele Silvestro, Weston L. Testo, Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez, K. Walker, B. E. Walker, P. Wilkin, J. Williams, T. Ziegler, A. Zizka, Alexandre Antonelli
Science - 2022 -
The counteracting effects of anthropogenic speciation and extinction on mammal species richness and phylogenetic
diversity
Sören Faurby, R. O. Pedersen, J. C. Svenning, Alexandre Antonelli
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2022 -
Phylogenetic and functional clustering illustrate the roles of adaptive radiation and dispersal filtering in jointly shaping late-Quaternary mammal assemblages on oceanic
islands
X. F. Si, M. W. Cadotte, T. J. Davies, Alexandre Antonelli, P. Ding, J. C. Svenning, Sören Faurby
Ecology Letters - 2022 -
Snakebite incidence in rural sub-Saharan Africa might be severely
underestimated
Harith Farooq, C. Bero, Y. Guilengue, C. Elias, Y. Massingue, I. Mucopote, C. Nanvonamuquitxo, J. Marais, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli
Toxicon - 2022 -
Mapping Africa's Biodiversity: More of the Same Is Just Not Good
Enough
Harith Farooq, Josué Azevedo, A. Soares, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Systematic Biology - 2021 -
CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal
diets
O. Middleton, Hanna Svensson, J. P. W. Scharlemann, Sören Faurby, C. Sandom
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2021 -
Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic turnover in amphibians and reptiles are driven by environment and geography in Neotropical
savannas
Josué Azevedo, C. de C. Nogueira, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Journal of Biogeography - 2021 -
Species perceived to be dangerous are more likely to have distinctive local
names
Harith Farooq, C. Bero, Y. Guilengue, C. Elias, Y. Massingue, I. Mucopote, C. Nanvonamuquitxo, J. Marais, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - 2021 -
Loss of functional diversity through anthropogenic extinctions of island birds is not offset by biotic
invasions
Ferran Sayol, Robert S. Cooke, A. L. Pigot, T. M. Blackburn, J. A. Tobias, M. J. Steinbauer, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Science Advances - 2021 -
iucn_sim: a new program to simulate future extinctions based on IUCN threat
status
Tobias Andermann, Sören Faurby, Robert S. Cooke, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli
Ecography - 2021 -
CarniFOSS: A database of the body mass of fossil
carnivores
Sören Faurby, M. Morlo, L. Werdelin
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2021 -
Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact
Communities?
A. J. Plumptre, D. Baisero, R. T. Belote, E. Vazquez-Dominguez, Sören Faurby, W. Jedrzejewski, H. Kiara, H. Kuhl, A. Benitez-Lopez, C. Luna-Arangure, M. Voigt, S. Wich, W. Wint, J. Gallego-Zamorano, C. Boyd
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change - 2021 -
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public
education
F. T. Bakker, A. Antonelli, J. Clarke, J. A. Cook, Scott V Edwards, P. G. P. Ericson, Sören Faurby, N. Ferrand, M. Gelang, R. G. Gillespie, M. Irestedt, Kennet Lundin, Ellen Larsson, Pável Matos-Maraví, J. Muller, Ted von Proschwitz, G. K. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, N. Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, M. Kallersjo
PeerJ - 2020 -
Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic
Interchange
Juan D. Carrillo, Sören Faurby, Daniele Silvestro, A. Zizka, Carlos Jaramillo, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2020 -
The past and future human impact on mammalian
diversity
Tobias Andermann, Sören Faurby, S. T. Turvey, Alexandre Antonelli, Daniele Silvestro
Science Advances - 2020 -
Taxonomic revision of the genus Xenopholis Peters, 1869 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae): Integrating morphology with ecological
niche
D. F. Gomes, Josué Azevedo, R. Murta-Fonseca, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli, P. Passos
PLoS ONE - 2020 -
Endemism patterns are scale
dependent
B. H. Daru, Harith Farooq, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Nature Communications - 2020 -
Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth's remaining
wilderness
R. T. Belote, Sören Faurby, A. Brennan, N. H. Carter, M. S. Dietz, B. Hahn, W. J. McShea, J. Gage
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - 2020 -
Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in
birds
Ferran Sayol, M. J. Steinbauer, T. M. Blackburn, Alexandre Antonelli, Sören Faurby
Science Advances - 2020 -
WEGE: A new metric for ranking locations for biodiversity
conservation
Harith Farooq, Josué Azevedo, F. Belluardo, C. Nanvonamuquitxo, Dominic J. Bennett, J. Moat, A. Soares, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli
Diversity and Distributions - 2020 -
Megafauna decline have reduced pathogen dispersal which may have increased emergent infectious
diseases
C. E. Doughty, T. O. Prys-Jones, Sören Faurby, A. J. Abraham, C. Hepp, V. Leshyk, V. Y. Fofanov, N. C. Nieto, J. C. Svenning, M. Galetti
Ecography - 2020 -
Rethinking
megafauna
M. Moleon, J. A. Sanchez-Zapata, J. A. Donazar, E. Revilla, B. Martin-Lopez, C. Gutierrez-Canovas, W. M. Getz, Z. Morales-Reyes, A. Campos-Arceiz, L. B. Crowder, M. Galetti, M. Gonzalez-Suarez, F. Z. He, P. Jordano, R. Lewison, R. Naidoo, N. Owen-Smith, N. Selva, J. L. Tella, C. Zarfl, S. C. Jahnig, M. W. Hayward, Sören Faurby, N. Garcia, A. D. Barnosky, K. Tockner
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences - 2020 -
Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate
change
C. J. Sandom, O. Middleton, E. Lundgren, J. Rowan, S. D. Schowanek, J. C. Svenning, Sören Faurby
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences - 2020 -
Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East
Africa
Sören Faurby, Daniele Silvestro, L. Werdelin, Alexandre Antonelli
Ecology Letters - 2020 -
Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation
impacts
J. Y. Lim, J. C. Svenning, B. Goldel, Sören Faurby, W. D. Kissling
Nature Communications - 2020 -
Museums and cradles of diversity are geographically coincident for narrowly distributed Neotropical
snakes
Josué Azevedo, Thaís Guedes, C. D. Nogueira, P. Passos, R. J. Sawaya, A. L. C. Prudente, F. E. Barbo, C. Strussmann, F. L. Franco, V. Arzamendia, A. R. Giraudo, A. J. S. Argolo, M. Jansen, H. Zaher, J. F. R. Tonini, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli
Ecography - 2020 -
The pitfalls of biodiversity proxies: Differences in richness patterns of birds, trees and understudied diversity across
Amazonia
Camila Ritter, Sören Faurby, Dominic J. Bennett, Luciano N. Naka, Hans ter Steege, Alexander Zizka, Quiterie Haenel, R. Henrik Nilsson, Alexandre Antonelli
Scientific Reports - 2019 -
Soil fertility and flood regime are correlated with phylogenetic structure of Amazonian palm
communities
Christine D. Bacon, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli, S. M. Kristiansen, J. C. Svenning, H. Balslev
Annals of Botany - 2019 -
The use of museum skins for genomic analyses of temporal genetic diversity in wild
species
A. V. Stronen, L. Iacolina, C. Pertoldi, S. Kusza, P. Hulva, I. Dykyy, I. Kojola, Sören Faurby
Conservation Genetics Resources - 2019 -
PHYLACINE 1.2: The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal
Macroecology
Sören Faurby, M. Davis, R. O. Pedersen, S. D. Schowanek, Alexandre Antonelli, J. C. Svenning
Ecology - 2018 -
Evolutionary and ecological success is decoupled in
mammals
Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli
Journal of Biogeography - 2018 -
Anthropogenic range contractions bias species climate change
forecasts
Sören Faurby, M. B. Araujo
Nature Climate Change - 2018 -
Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical
snakes
Thaís Guedes, R. J. Sawaya, Alexander Zizka, S. Laffan, Sören Faurby, R. A. Pyron, R. S. Bernils, M. Jansen, P. Passos, A. L. C. Prudente, D. F. Cisneros-Heredia, H. B. Braz, C. D. Nogueira, Alexandre Antonelli
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2018 -
Learning from the past to prepare for the future: felids face continued threat from declining
prey
C. J. Sandom, Sören Faurby, J. C. Svenning, D. Burnham, A. Dickman, A. E. Hinks, E. A. Macdonald, W. J. Ripple, J. Williams, D. W. Macdonald
Ecography - 2018 -
To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global
change
R. E. Onstein, W. J. Baker, T. L. P. Couvreur, Sören Faurby, L. Herrera-Alsina, J. C. Svenning, W. D. Kissling
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences - 2018 -
Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity
research
Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, J. Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine D. Bacon, Sören Faurby, Thaís Guedes, C. Hoorn, L. G. Lohmann, Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila Ritter, I. Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, H. Ter Steege, H. Tuomisto, F. P. Werneck, Alexander Zizka, S. V. Edwards
PeerJ - 2018 -
Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity
crisis
M. Davis, Sören Faurby, J. C. Svenning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2018 -
Phylotar: An automated pipeline for retrieving orthologous DNA sequences from GenBank in
R
Dominic J. Bennett, H. Hettling, Daniele Silvestro, Alexander Zizka, Christine D. Bacon, Sören Faurby, R. A. Vos, Alexandre Antonelli
Life - 2018 -
Comparing spatial diversification and meta-population models in the indo-Australian
Archipelago
L. Chalmandrier, C. Albouy, P. Descombes, B. Sandel, Sören Faurby, J. C. Svenning, N. E. Zimmermann, L. Pellissier
Royal Society Open Science - 2018 -
Shallow size-density relations within mammal clades suggest greater intra-guild ecological impact of large-bodied
species
R. O. Pedersen, Sören Faurby, J. C. Svenning
Journal of Animal Ecology - 2017 -
Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical
palms.
Renske E Onstein, William J Baker, Thomas L P Couvreur, Sören Faurby, Jens-Christian Svenning, W Daniel Kissling
Nature ecology & evolution - 2017 -
Fundamental species traits explain provisioning services of tropical American
palms
R. Camara-Leret, Sören Faurby, M. J. Macia, H. Balslev, B. Golden, J. C. Svenning, W. D. Kissling, N. Ronsted, C. H. Saslis-Lagoudakis
Nature Plants - 2017 -
Prehistoric and historic baselines for trophic rewilding in the
Neotropics
Jens Christian Svenning, Sören Faurby
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation - 2017 -
Anthropogenic impacts weaken Bergmann's
rule
Sören Faurby, M. B. Araujo
Ecography - 2017 -
Molecular phylogeny of extant horseshoe crabs (Xiphosura, Limulidae) indicates Paleogene diversification of Asian
species
Matthias Obst, Sören Faurby, Somchai Bussarawit, Peter Funch
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 2012