Biodiversity Fellow

Seymoure BM, Dell AI, Holker F, & Kalinkat G. (2023). A framework for untangling the consequences of artificial light at night on species interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 378, 1892. doi:10.1098/rstb.2022.0356

Lawrence T.J., Takenaka B.P., Garg A., Tao D., Deem S.L., Fèvre E.M., Gluecks I., Sagan V., Shacham E. (2023). A global examination of ecological niche modeling to predict emerging infectious diseases: a systematic review. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1244084

Farfan-Rios, W., Feeley, K.J., Myers, J.A., Tello, S., Sallo-Bravo, J., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T., Nina-Quispe, A., Garcia-Cabrera, K. ,Saatchi, S., Terborgh, J., Pitman, N., Monteagudo  Mendoza, A. , Vasquez, R., Salinas-Revilla, N., Cayola, L., Fuentes, A.F., Loza, I., Nuñez Vargas, P., Silman, M.R. (2024). Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming. EcoEvoRxiv. doi:10.32942/X2B32H

Austin, Matthew & Miller-Struttmann, Nicole. (2024). An inquiry-based activity for investigating the effect of climate change on phenology using the R programming language. The American Biology Teacher. 86. 233-241. 10.1525/abt.2024.86.4.233

Mendez-Urbano, F.; Sierra-Giraldo, J.A.; Carlsen, M.M.; Rodriguez-Rey, G. and Castano-Rubiano, N. (2022). Anthurium caldasii: a new species of Araceae from Colombia and its phylogenetic relationships with other black-spathed Anthurium species. Brittonia. DOI: 10.1007/s12228-022-09722-y

Bartlett KB, Austin MW, Beck JB, Zanne AE, Smith AB. (2023). Beyond the usual climate? Factors determining flowering and fruiting phenology across a genus over 117 years. American Journal of Botany. 110(7):e16188. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.16188

Austin, M.W., A.D. Tripodi, J.P. Strange & A.S. Dunlap. (2022). Bumble bees exhibit body size clines across an urban gradient despite low genetic differentiation. Scientific Reports 12: 4166. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-08093-4

Sedio, B., Marko J. Spasojevic, Jonathan A. Myers, S. Joseph Wright, Maria D. Person, Hamssika Chandrasekaran, Jack H. Dwenger, María Laura Prechi, Christian A. López, David N. Allen, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Norm Bourg, Buck T. Castillo, Nicola J. Day, Emily DeWald-Wang, Christopher W. Dick, Timothy Y. James, Jordan G. Kueneman, Joseph A. LaManna, James A. Lutz, Ian McGregor, Sean M. McMahon, Geoffrey G. Parker, John D. Parker, and John H. Vandermeer. (2021). Chemical similarity of co-occurring trees decreases with precipitation and temperature in North American forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 679638. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.679638

Reid, R.E.B., J.T. Waples, D.A. Jensen, C.E. Edwards, and X. Liu. (2022). Climate and vegetation and their impact on C and N isotope ratios in bat guano. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.929220

Austin MW, Smith AB, Olsen KM, Hoch PC, Krakos KN, Schmocker SP, Miller‐Struttmann NE. (2024). Climate change increases flowering duration, driving phenological reassembly and elevated co‐flowering richness. New Phytologist, 243(6). doi:10.1111/nph.19994

Austin, M.W., P.O. Cole, K.M. Olsen & A.B. Smith. (2022). Climate change is associated with increased allocation to potential outcrossing in a common mixed mating species. American Journal of Botany 109: 1085–1096. doi:10.1002/ajb2.16021

Manning, T.H., M.W. Austin, K. MuseMorris & A.S. Dunlap. (2021). Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates. Behavioural Processes 193: 104528. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104528

Yang, Y., C. J. Axelrod, E. Grant, S. R. Earl, E. M. Urquhart, K. Talbert, L. E. Johnson, Z. Walker, K. Hsiao, I. Stone, B. A. Carlson, A. López-Sepulcre, and S. P. Gordon. (2023). Evolutionary divergence of developmental plasticity and learning of mating strategies in Trinidadian guppies. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14043

Axelrod C. J., Yang Y., Grant E., Fleming J. , Stone I., Carlson B. A., and Gordon S.P. (2024). Evolutionary divergence of plasticity in brain morphology between ecologically divergent habitats of Trinidadian guppies. Evolution 78: 7,1261–1274,  doi:10.1093/evolut/qpae055

Leith NT, Fowler-Finn KD, and Moore MP. (2022). Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection. Ecology Letters 25(9): 1919-1936. doi: 10.1111/ele.14072

Stroud JT, Moore MP, Langerhans RB, and Losos JB. (2023). Fluctuating selection maintains
distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(42): e2222071120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2222071120

Baez, S., and 40+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W., Myers, J., Tello, J.S., (2022). FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants. Scientific Data. 9, 511. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01626-6

Valentin Journé, R. A., and 100+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W., Myers, J. (2022). Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.14012

Augustine, Lauren & Coloma, Luis & Vargas-Mena, Patricio & Elden, Justin. (2024). HERPETOCULTURE 575 Notes on the Ex-situ Maintenance and Reproduction of the Spotted Harlequin Frog, Atelopus balios (Bufonidae). Herpetological Review. 54. 575-581. PDF

González-Caro, Sebastián, J. Sebastián Tello, Jonathan A. Myers, Kenneth Feeley, Cecilia Blundo, Marco Calderón-Loor, Julieta Carilla, Leslie Cayola, Francisco Cuesta, William Farfán, and et al. (2023). Historical assembly of Andean tree communities. Plants 12, 20: 3546. doi: 10.3390/plants12203546

Moore, M.P., Leith, N.T., Fowler-Finn, K.D. & Medley, K.A. (2024) Human-modified habitats imperil ornamented dragonflies less than their non-ornamented counterparts at local, regional, and continental scales. Ecology Letters, 27, e14455. doi.org/10.1111/ele.14455

Ezenwa, V.O., Civitello, D.J., Barton, B.T., Becker, D.J., Brenn-White, M., Classen, A.T., Deem, S.L., Johnson, Z.E., Kutz, S., Malishev, M. Penczykowski, R.M., Preston, D.L., Vannatta, J.T., and Koltz, A.M. (2020). Infectious diseases, livestock, and climate: a vicious cycle? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 35(11), pp.959-962. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.08.012

Nájera F, Uiterwaal SF, Crespo E, Grande-Gómez R, Sánchez JF, Mata-Huete M, Palmer J, Iturrarte G, Peña J, Munkhtsog B, Munkhtsog B, Poyarkov AD, Hernandez-Blanco JA, Alexandrov DY, Galsandorj N, Deem SL. (2024). Insights into the spatial ecology of severely injured free-living felids: Iberian lynx, bobcat, and snow leopard. Ecology and Evolution 14(2):e11000. doi: 10.1002/ece3.11000

Qiu, T., and 60+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W., Myers, J. (2021). Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118:34. doi:10.1073/pnas.2106130118

Andres, K. J., Liu, B., Johnson, L. E., Kapuscinski, K. L., Moerke, A. H., Ling, F., & Knouft, J. H.
(2025). Life stage and vaccination shape the gut microbiome of hatchery-reared Atlantic
salmon (Salmo salar) intended for river stocking. Aquaculture, 594, 741469. doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2024.741469

Qiu, T., and 60+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W., Myers, J. (2022). Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature Communications. 13:2381. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9

Qui, T., and 50+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W., Myers, J. (2023). Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants 9: 1044-1056. doi: 10.1038/s41477-023-01446-5

Duque, A., and 40+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W., Myers, J.A., Tello, J.S. (2021). Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges. Nature Communications. 12:1-10. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22459-8

Muñoz, Miguel, J. Sebastián Tello, Manuel J. Macía, Jonathan A. Myers, Peter M. Jørgensen, Victoria Cala, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Vania W. Torrez & Gabriel Arellano. (2021). Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions. Journal of Vegetation Science 32: e13032. doi: 10.1111/jvs.13032

Liu, Z., Zhang, L., Knouft, J. H., & Ling, F. (2022). Meter-scale variation within a single transect demands attention to taxon accumulation curves in riverine microbiome studies. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 16(5), 1-11. doi:10.1007/s11783-022-1543-6

McDonald MM, Cunneyworth PMK, Anderson AG, Wroblewski E. (2022). Mitochondrial genetic diversity and divergence dating of Angolan colobus monkeys in the eastern forests of Kenya and Tanzania: implications for subspeciation and reconstructing historical biogeography. American Journal of Primatology. doi:10.1002/ajp.23384

Aziati I.D., Jnr D.M., Antia A., Joshi A., Aviles-Gamboa A., Lee P., Harastani H., Wang D., Adalsteinsson S.A., Boon A.C.M. (2023). Prevalence of Bourbon and Heartland viruses in field collected ticks at an environmental field station in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: 14(1). doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102080.

Austin, M.W. & A.S. Dunlap. (2023). Resource availability affects seasonal trajectories of population-level learning. American Naturalist. doi: 10.1086/722235

Bonadonna, G., Ramilijaona, O. M., Raharivololona, B. M., Andrianarimisa, A., Razafindraibe, H., Freeman, K., Rasambainarivo, F., Wroblewski, E. E., & Milich, K. M. (2024). Response of diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema) to fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) predation in the Betampona Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11248. doi:10.1002/ece3.11248

Ezenwa, V.O., Civitello, D.J., Classen, A.T., Barton, B.T., Becker, D.J., Brenn-White, M., Deem, S.L., Kutz, S., Malishev, M., Penczykowski, R.M., Preston, D.L., Vannatta, J.T., and Koltz, A.M (2021). Response to Charlier et al.: Climate–disease feedbacks mediated by livestock methane emissions are plausible. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36(7), pp.578-579. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.005

Brant, R. A., Edwards, C. E., Reid, J. L., Bassüner, B., Delfeld, B., Dell, N., Mangan, S. A., de la Paz Bernasconi Torres, V., & Albrecht, M. A. (2024). Restoration age affects microbial-herbaceous plant interactions in an oak woodland. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11360. doi:10.1002/ece3.11360

Moore MP, Hersch K, Sricharoen C, Lee S, Reice C, Rice P, Kronick S, Medley KA, and Fowler-Finn KD. (2021). Sex-specific ornament evolution is a consistent feature of climatic adaptation across space and time in dragonflies. ​Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(28): e2101458118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101458118

Lawrence, T.J., Vilbig, J.M., Kangogo, G., Fèvre E.M., Deem S.L., Gluecks I., Sagan V., Shacham E.. (2023). Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020). Regional Environmental Change 23, 59. doi: 10.1007/s10113-023-02055-w

Lawrence T.J., Kangogo G.K., Fredman A., Deem S.L., Fèvre E.M., Gluecks I., Brien J.D., Shacham E. (2024). Spatial examination of social and environmental drivers of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) across Kenya. Ecohealth. doi: 10.1007/s10393-024-01684-9

Koltz, A.M., Civitello, D.J., Becker, D.J., Deem, S.L., Classen, A.T., Barton, B., Brenn-White, M., Johnson, Z.E., Kutz, S., Malishev, M., Preston, D.L., Vannatta, J.T., Penczykowski, R.M., and Ezenwa, V.O. (2022). Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(20), p.e2117381119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117381119

Leith NT, Macchiano AT, Moore MP, and Fowler-Finn KD. (2021). Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction. Current Opinions in Insect Science 45: 106-114. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2021.03.005

Linan, Alexander G., Jonathan A. Myers, Christine E. Edwards, Amy E. Zanne, Stephen A. Smith, Gabriel Arellano, Leslie Cayola, William Farfan-Ríos, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Sebastián Gonzales-Caro, M. Isabel Loza, Manuel J. Macía, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Nieto-Ariza, Norma Salinas Revilla, Miles Silman & J. Sebastián Tello. (2021). The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre-adapted clades? New Phytologist 232: 2506-2519. doi: 10.1111/nph.17674

Vela Díaz, Dilys M., Leslie Cayola, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Lucio R. Malizia, Cecilia Blundo & Jonathan A. Myers. (2020). Untangling the importance of niche breadth and niche position as drivers of tree species abundance and occupancy across biogeographic regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 1542-1553. doi:10.1111/geb.13139

Iannotti L, Randrianarivony T, Randrianasolo A, Rakotoarivony F, Andriamihajarivo T, LaBrier M, Gyimah E, Vie S, Nunez-Garcia A, Hart R. (2024). Wild foods are positively associated with diet diversity and child growth in a protected forest area of Madagascar. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(4). doi: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.102101.

McDonald MM, Cunneyworth PMK, Anderson AG, Wroblewski E. (2023). Wild origins and mitochondrial genetic diversity of Angolan Colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis) in AZA-accredited zoos and its implications for ex situ population management. Zoo Biology. 42(5):668-674. doi: 10.1002/zoo.21775