David C. Lees

Overview

Best Publications

• The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness.

  Robert.K. Colwell;David C. Lees

  1459
  Citations

• Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction

  Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Enrique Martinez-Meyer

  1207
  Citations

• Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In : Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

  Erik J. Van Nieukerken;Lauri Kaila;Ian J. Kitching;Niels P. Kristensen

  906
  Citations

• Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineation.

  Michael T. Monaghan;Ruth Wild;Ruth Wild;Miranda Elliot;Miranda Elliot;Tomochika Fujisawa

  799
  Citations

• Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

  Zhi-Qiang Zhang;John Na Hooper;Rob Wm Van Soest;Andrzej Pisera

  774
  Citations

• Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools

  C. Kremen;A. Cameron;A. Cameron;A. Moilanen;S. J. Phillips

  670
  Citations

• Taxon-specific PCR for DNA barcoding arthropod prey in bat faeces

  Matt R. K. Zeale;Roger K. Butlin;Gary L. A. Barker;David C. Lees

  643
  Citations

• Madagascar as a model region of species diversification.

  Miguel Vences;Katharina C. Wollenberg;David R. Vieites;David C. Lees;David C. Lees

  484
  Citations

• A Large-Scale, Higher-Level, Molecular Phylogenetic Study of the Insect Order Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies)

  Jerome C. Regier;Charles Mitter;Andreas Zwick;Adam L. Bazinet

  353
  Citations

• Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

  William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  302
  Citations

• Mapping More of Terrestrial Biodiversity for Global Conservation Assessment

  Simon Ferrier;George G.V.N. Powell;Karen K.S. Richardson;Glenn Manion

  242
  Citations

• A null model for species richness gradients: bounded range overlap of butterflies and other rainforest endemics in Madagascar

  David C. Lees;Claire Kremen;Lanto Andriamampianina

  238
  Citations

• Towards a mitogenomic phylogeny of Lepidoptera.

  Martijn J.T.N. Timmermans;Martijn J.T.N. Timmermans;David C. Lees;Thomas J. Simonsen

  216
  Citations

• A method for quantifying biodiversity loss and its application to a 50-year record of deforestation across Madagascar

  Thomas F. Allnutt;Thomas F. Allnutt;Simon Ferrier;Glenn Manion;George V. N. Powell

  179
  Citations

• Tracking origins of invasive herbivores through herbaria and archival DNA: the case of the horse‐chestnut leaf miner

  David C Lees;David C Lees;H Walter Lack;Rodolphe Rougerie;Rodolphe Rougerie;Antonio Hernandez-Lopez

  158
  Citations

• Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

  Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  130
  Citations

• High mitochondrial diversity in geographically widespread butterflies of Madagascar: A test of the DNA barcoding approach

  Marjorie C. Linares;Iván D. Soto-Calderón;Iván D. Soto-Calderón;David C. Lees;Nicola M. Anthony

  109
  Citations

• Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).

  Marianne Espeland;Marianne Espeland;Jason P.W. Hall;Philip J. DeVries;David C. Lees

  108
  Citations

• A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of owlet moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), and examination of the utility of mitochondrial genomes for lepidopteran phylogenetics

  Xiushuai Yang;Stephen L. Cameron;David C. Lees;Dayong Xue

  108
  Citations

• Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe

  Alain Roques;Marc Kenis;David Lees;Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

  99
  Citations

• Regular ArticleA null model for species richness gradients: bounded range overlap of butterflies and other rainforest endemics in Madagascar

  David C Lees;Claire Kremen;Lanto Andriamampianina

  29
  Citations

• Butterflies of Australia. Their Identification, Biology and Distribution

  David Lees

  0
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