Fritz Haas
* January 04, 1886 – December 26, 1969 †
malacologist
German malacologist
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Science Enabled by Specimen Data
Escribano, N., D. Galicia, and A. H. Ariño. 2019. Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) about terrestrial mammals in the Iberian Peninsula F. H. Koch [ed.],. PLOS ONE 14: e0213542. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213542
The advent of online data aggregator infrastructures has facilitated the accumulation of Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) about biodiversity. Despite the vast amount of freely available data records, their usefulness for research depends on completeness of each body of data regarding their spatial…
Liu, X., T. M. Blackburn, T. Song, X. Li, C. Huang, and Y. Li. 2019. Risks of Biological Invasion on the Belt and Road. Current Biology 29: 499-505.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.036
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an unprecedented global development program that involves nearly half of the world’s countries [1]. It not only will have economic and political influences, but also may generate multiple environmental challenges and is a focus of considerable academic and p…
Sullivan, J., M. L. Smith, A. Espíndola, M. Ruffley, A. Rankin, D. Tank, and B. Carstens. 2019. Integrating life history traits into predictive phylogeography. Molecular Ecology 28: 2062–2073. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15029
Predictive phylogeography seeks to aggregate genetic, environmental and taxonomic data from multiple species in order to make predictions about unsampled taxa using machine‐learning techniques such as Random Forests. To date, organismal trait data have infrequently been incorporated into predictive …
Antonelli, A., A. Zizka, F. A. Carvalho, R. Scharn, C. D. Bacon, D. Silvestro, and F. L. Condamine. 2018. Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115: 6034–6039. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713819115
The American tropics (the Neotropics) are the most species-rich realm on Earth, and for centuries, scientists have attempted to understand the origins and evolution of their biodiversity. It is now clear that different regions and taxonomic groups have responded differently to geological and climati…
Alvarez, B., P. J. Frings, W. Clymans, G. Fontorbe, and D. J. Conley. 2017. Assessing the Potential of Sponges (Porifera) as Indicators of Ocean Dissolved Si Concentrations. Frontiers in Marine Science 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00373
We explore the distribution of sponges along dissolved silica (dSi) concentration gradients to test whether sponge assemblages are related to dSi and to assess the validity of fossil sponges as a palaeoecological tool for inferring dSi concentrations of the past oceans. We extracted sponge records f…
Guedes, T. B., R. J. Sawaya, A. Zizka, S. Laffan, S. Faurby, R. A. Pyron, R. S. Bérnils, et al. 2017. Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12679
Motivation: We generated a novel database of Neotropical snakes (one of the world’s richest herpetofauna) combining the most comprehensive, manually compiled distribution dataset with publicly available data. We assess, for the first time, the diversity patterns for all Neotropical snakes as well as…
Forti, L. R., C. G. Becker, L. Tacioli, V. R. Pereira, A. C. F. A. Santos, I. Oliveira, C. F. B. Haddad, and L. F. Toledo. 2017. Perspectives on invasive amphibians in Brazil S. Lötters [ed.],. PLOS ONE 12: e0184703. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184703
Introduced species have the potential to become invasive and jeopardize entire ecosystems. The success of species establishing viable populations outside their original extent depends primarily on favorable climatic conditions in the invasive ranges. Species distribution modeling (SDM) can thus be u…