Academic Articles & Research Papers

Too threatened to try: how extinction risk drives research neglect in rays and skates.

Substantial Neotropical bat diversity likely remains undescribed and vulnerable to extinction.

Ecological traits predict extinction risk of the world's traded carnivores.

Lower speciation, not higher extinction, drove African megaherbivore diversity collapse.

The paradoxical extinction: Exploring signatures of assortative mating as a possible mechanism that maintains canonical Red Wolf genetic ancestry in the American Gulf Coast canids.

Intraspecific trait variation mediates realized extinction and unpaid extinction debt in island ecosystems.

The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds.

Unpacking the extinction crisis: rates, patterns and causes of recent extinctions in plants and animals.

Trade induced extinction risk footprints by European financial institutions.

Caribbean Islands facilitated the colonization of Western Hemisphere barn owls, yet experienced rampant extinction.

When dates disagree: radiocarbon and sighting-based models reveal range-wide variability in great auk (Pinguinus impennis) extinction estimates.

Genetics and extinction

The Archaeology of Animals

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoo...

27 yr of Spaceborne IR Astronomy: An ISO, Spitzer, WISE, and NEOWISE Survey for Large-amplitude Variability in Young Stellar Objects

Infrared observations can probe photometric variability across the full evolutionary range of young stellar objects (YSOs), from deeply embedded protostars to pre-main-sequence stars with dusty disks. We present 3–8 μ m light curves extendi...

Controlled Plasmonic Coupling in Silver Nanoplate Dimers for Enhanced Plasmonic Sensing

Noble metal nanostructures provide versatile platforms for light manipulation through localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). Among them, triangular silver nanoplates (AgNPTs) exhibit strong field-enhancement and spectral tunability, ...

In-Fiber Graphene-hBN Polarizer With Enhanced Performance and Bandwidth

Graphene and hBN as two-dimensional materials with excellent optical properties can be combined with other materials. In this paper, graphene and hBN is sequentially deposited on the surface of the silicon-core fiber to serve as transverse ...

High performance thin-film lithium niobate modulator on a silicon substrate using periodic capacitively loaded traveling-wave electrode

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) based traveling-wave modulators maintain simultaneously excellent performances, including large modulation bandwidth, high extinction ratio, low optical loss, and high modulation efficiency. Nevertheless, th...

Hg Isotopes and Enhanced Hg Concentration in the Meishan and Guryul Ravine Successions: Proxies for Volcanism Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary

High-resolution organic carbon isotope (δ13C), Hg concentration and Hg isotopes curves are presented for the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) sections at Guryul Ravine (India) and Meishan D (China). The total organic carbon (TOC)-normalized ...

Ecological correlates of extinction risk and persistence of direct-developing stream-dwelling frogs in Mesoamerica

Understanding the threats to wildlife across space and time is essential for developing effective conservation strategies. In Mesoamerica (i.e., the region that extends from Central Mexico to the most southern point in Panama) at least 40% ...

Astronomy and Astrophysics

The distribution of interstellar extinction has been mapped over the whole sky, using all available spectral and photometric data.The colour excess distribution is modelled as a function of galactic latitude, longitude and distance within a...