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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions

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    • A new genus of augochlorine bees from northern Venezuela (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) 

      Engel, Michael S. (2019-08-08)
      A new genus and species of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Halictinae) is described and figured from northern Venezuela. Trichommation osculans Engel, new genus and species, is a member of the Megaloptidia-group of genera as ...

    • Morphological phylogeny of Megachilini and the evolution of leaf-cutter behavior in bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) 

      Gonzalez, Victor H.; Gustafson, Grey T.; Engel, Michael S. (2019-07-03)
      A unique feature among bees is the ability of some species of Megachile Latreille s.l. to cut and process fresh leaves for nest construction. The presence of a razor between the female mandibular teeth (interdental laminae) ...

    • Evolutionary Proteomics Reveals Distinct Patterns of Complexity and Divergence between Lepidopteran Sperm Morphs 

      Whittington, Emma; Karr, Timothy L.; Mongue, Andrew J.; Dorus, Steve; Walters, James R. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-04-20)
      Spermatozoa are one of the most strikingly diverse animal cell types. One poorly understood example of this diversity is sperm heteromorphism, where males produce multiple distinct morphs of sperm in a single ejaculate. ...

    • Climate Affects Plant-Soil Feedback of Native and Invasive Grasses: Negative Feedbacks in Stable but Not in Variable Environments 

      Duell, Eric B.; Zaiger, Katherine; Bever, James D.; Wilson, Gail W. T. (Frontiers Media, 2019-11-05)
      The plant-soil feedback framework allows researchers to target the interaction of plants and root-associated microbes and to determine its interplay on plant-plant interactions. Plant-soil feedbacks in terrestrial ecology ...

    • Distinct Contributions of Eroding and Depositional Profiles to Land-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange in Two Contrasting Forests 

      Billings, Sharon A.; Richter, Daniel de B.; Ziegler, Susan E.; Prestegaard, Karen; Wade, Anna M. (Frontiers Media, 2019-03-13)
      Lateral movements of soil organic C (SOC) influence Earth's C budgets by transporting organic C across landscapes and by modifying soil-profile fluxes of CO2. We extended a previously presented model (Soil Organic C Erosion ...

    • Adaptation to hummingbird pollination is associated with reduced diversification in Penstemon 

      Wessinger, Carolyn A.; Rausher, Mark D.; Hileman, Lena C. (Wiley Open Access, 2019-08-02)
      A striking characteristic of the Western North American flora is the repeated evolution of hummingbird pollination from insect‐pollinated ancestors. This pattern has received extensive attention as an opportunity to study ...

    • Beyond the black box: promoting mathematical collaborations for elucidating interactions in soil ecology 

      Bennett, Alison E.; Preedy, Katharine; Golubski, Antonio; Umbanhowar, James; Borrett, Stuart R.; Byrne, Loren; Apostol, Kent; Bever, James D.; Biederman, Lori; Classen, Aimée T.; Cuddington, Kim; de Graaff, Marie‐Anne; Garrett, Karen A.; Gross, Lou; Hastings, Alan; Hoeksema, Jason D.; Hrynkiv, Volodymyr; Karst, Justine; Kummel, Miro; Lee, Charlotte T.; Liang, Chao; Liao, Wei; Mack, Keenan; Miller, Laura; Ownley, Bonnie; Rojas, Claudia; Simms, Ellen L.; Walsh, Vonda K.; Warren, Matthew; Zhu, Jun (Ecological Society of America, 2019-07-12)
      Understanding soil systems is critical because they form the structural and nutritional foundation for plants and thus every terrestrial habitat and agricultural system. In this paper, we encourage increased use of ...

    • Ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set design: Base genome and initial design parameters critical for optimization 

      Gustafson, Grey T.; Alexander, Alana; Sproul, John S.; Pflug, James M.; Maddison, David R.; Short, Andrew E. (Wiley Open Access, 2019-06-11)
      Targeted capture and enrichment approaches have proven effective for phylogenetic study. Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) in particular have exhibited great utility for phylogenomic analyses, with the software package phyluce ...

    • Sensitivity to AMF species is greater in late‐successional than early‐successional native or nonnative grassland plants 

      Cheeke, Tanya E.; Zheng, Chaoyuan; Koziol, Liz; Gurholt, Carli R.; Bever, James D. (Ecological Society of America, 2019-07-30)
      Sensitivity of plant species to individual arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal species is of primary importance to understanding the role of AM fungal diversity and composition in plant ecology. Currently, we do not have a ...

    • On population abundance and niche structure 

      Osorio‐Olvera, Luis; Soberón, Jorge; Falconi, Manuel (Wiley Open Access, 2019-03-04)
      Recent published evidence indicates a negative correlation between density of populations and the distance of their environments to a suitably defined ‘niche centroid’. This empirical observation lacks theoretical grounds. ...

    • An evaluation of transferability of ecological niche models 

      Qiao, Huijie; Feng, Xiao; Escobar, Luis E.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Soberón, Jorge; Zhu, Gengping; Papeş, Monica (Wiley Open Access, 2018-08-18)
      Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is used widely to study species’ geographic distributions. ENM applications frequently involve transferring models calibrated with environmental data from one region to other regions or times ...

    • A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds 

      Kimball, Rebecca T.; Oliveros, Carl H.; Wang, Ning; White, Noor D.; Barker, F. Keith; Field, Daniel J.; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Chesser, R. Terry; Moyle, Robert G.; Braun, Michael J.; Brumfield, Robb T.; Faircloth, Brant C.; Smith, Brian Tilston; Braun, Edward L. (MDPI, 2019-07-10)
      It has long been appreciated that analyses of genomic data (e.g., whole genome sequencing or sequence capture) have the potential to reveal the tree of life, but it remains challenging to move from sequence data to a clear ...

    • Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another 

      Peterson, A. Townsend; Anderson, Robert P.; Beger, Maria; Bolliger, Janine; Brotons, Lluís; Burridge, Christopher P.; Cobos, Marlon E.; Cuervo‐Robayo, Angela P.; Di Minin, Enrico; Diez, Jeffrey; Elith, Jane; Embling, Clare B.; Escobar, Luis E.; Essl, Franz; Feeley, Kenneth J.; Hawkes, Lucy; Jiménez‐García, Daniel; Jimenez, Laura; Green, David M.; Knop, Eva; Kühn, Ingolf; Lahoz‐Monfort, José J.; Lira‐Noriega, Andres; Lobo, Jorge M.; Loyola, Rafael; Nally, Ralph Mac; Machado‐Stredel, Fernando; Martínez‐Meyer, Enrique; McCarthy, Michael; Merow, Cory; Nori, Javier; Nuñez‐Penichet, Claudia; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Pyšek, Petr; Rejmánek, Marcel; Ricciardi, Anthony; Robertson, Mark; Soto, Octavio Rojas; Romero‐Alvarez, Daniel; Roura‐Pascual, Núria; Santini, Luca; Schoeman, David S.; Schröder, Boris; Soberon, Jorge; Strubbe, Diederik; Thuiller, Wilfried; Traveset, Anna; Treml, Eric A.; Václavík, Tomáš; Varela, Sara; Watson, James E. M.; Wiersma, Yolanda; Wintle, Brendan; Yanez‐Arenas, Carlos; Zurell, Damaris (Wiley Open Access, 2019-01-09)

    • Potential migratory routes of Urania boisduvalii (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae) among host plant populations 

      Nuñez‐Penichet, Claudia; Cobos, Marlon E.; Barro, Alejandro; Soberón, Jorge (Wiley Open Access, 2019-01-14)
      Aim Migratory species depend on various habitats and resources along their migration routes. Characteristics such as dependence on distinct habitats and the presence of multiple threats along their migratory routes make ...

    • Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search 

      Brown, Peter; Consortium, RELISH; Zhou, Yaoqi (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-10-29)
      Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that ...

    • Discovery of Megachile (Pseudomegachile) lanata (Fabricius, 1775) (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) in Colombia, an adventive bee species from the Old World 

      Gonzalez, Victor H.; Guevara, Diego A.; Jaramillo-Silva, Joanna; Ospina, Rodulfo (Pensoft Publishers, 2019-01-18)
      We record for the first time for Colombia Megachile (Pseudomegachile) lanata (Fabricius, 1775), a bee species from Southeast Asia. This is the first record of an adventive bee species for the country besides Apis mellifera ...

    • A New Model for Efficient, Need-Driven Progress in Generating Primary Biodiversity Information Resources 

      Asase, Alex; Sainge, Moses N.; Radji, Raoufou A.; Ugbogu, Omokafe A.; Peterson, A. Townsend (Pensoft Publishers, 2019-06-26)
      The field of biodiversity informatics has developed rapidly in recent years with broad availability of large-scale information resources. However, online biodiversity information are biased (Boakes et al. 2010, Stropp et ...

    • Curso Modelado de Nicho Ecológico, Version 1.0 

      Peterson, A. Townsend; Anderson, Robert P.; Cobos, Marlon E.; Cuahutle, Martín; Cuervo-Robayo, Angela P.; Escobar, Luis E.; Fernández, Marc; Jiménez-García, Daniel; Lira-Noriega, Andrés; Lobo, Jorge M.; Machado-Stredel, Fernando; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia; Nori, Javier; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Teresa Rodríguez, María; Rojas-Soto, Octavio; Romero-Álvarez, Daniel; Soberón, Jorge; Varela, Sara; Yañez-Arenas, Carlos (University of Kansas, 2019-05-02)
      The suite of ideas, protocols, and software tools that has come to be known as “Ecological Niche Modeling” (ENM) — as well as those for the related “Species Distribution Modeling” (SDM)—has seen intensive exploration and ...

    • Co-occurrence Networks do not Support Identification of Biotic Interactions 

      Peterson, A. Townsend; Soberón, Jorge; Ramsey, Janine; Osorio-Olvera, Luis (University of Kansas, 2020-01-31)
      We assess a body of work that has attempted to use co-occurrence networks to infer the existence and type of biotic interactions between species. Although we see considerable interest in the approach as an exploratory tool ...

    • Recent observations of water shrews in northeastern South Dakota 

      Skadsen, Dennis; Timm, Robert M. (2019)