Seed Grant Recipient

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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