now for bodies, thoughts to be connected to an ongoing investigation into the gambino crime family. what the new york attorney general is saying about former president trump s request for a mistrial in the new york civil fraud case. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we start in san francisco, where president biden is scheduled to address ceos at the apec summit. they, those ceos have been grappling with the impact of world conflicts on their businesses. monica alba is traveling with the president. what are we expecting to hear from the white house today? reporter: well, this is really a continuation of some of the progress made yesterday in the summit with president xi jinping of china. but of course this now broadens out the conversation, but many of the themes we expect will be similar, and president biden will be speaking here at the ceo summit at this site of the asia pacific economic cooperation conference where of course now ma
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Wildlife trade is a multibillion-dollar industry1 targeting a hyperdiversity of species2 and can contribute to major declines in abundance3. A key question is understanding the global hotspots of wildlife trade for phylogenetic (PD) and functional (FD) diversity, which underpin the conservation of evolutionary history4, ecological functions5 and ecosystem services benefiting humankind6. Using a global dataset of traded bird and mammal species, we identify that the highest levels of traded PD and FD are from tropical regions, where high numbers of evolutionary distinct and globally endangered species in trade occur. The standardized effect size (ses) of traded PD and FD also shows strong tropical epicentres, with additional hotspots of mammalian ses.PD in the eastern United States and ses.FD in Europe. Large-bodied, frugivorous and canopy-dwelling birds and large-bodied mammals are more likely to be traded whereas insectivorous birds and diurnally foraging mammals are less likely. Where