Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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A new model for efficient, need-driven progress in generating primary biodiversity information resources
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-01-19)Premise The field of biodiversity informatics has developed rapidly in recent years, with broad availability of large-scale information resources. However, online biodiversity information is biased spatially as a result ... -
Supraspecific units in correlative niche modeling improves the prediction of geographic potential of biological invasions
(PeerJ, 2020-12-22)Background Biological invasions rank among the most significant threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. Correlative ecological niche modeling is among the most frequently used tools with which to estimate potential ... -
Potential distributions of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis causing anthrax in Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2020-05-09)Background Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva) is an emergent bacterium closely related to Bacillus anthracis, the etiological agent of anthrax. The latter has a worldwide distribution and usually causes infectious ... -
A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-06-01)Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready-to-use software packages and increasing availability of digital geoinformation ... -
Acknowledging uncertainty in evolutionary reconstructions of ecological niches
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-06-27)Reconstructing ecological niche evolution can provide insight into the biogeography and diversification of evolving lineages. However, comparative phylogenetic methods may infer the history of ecological niche evolution ... -
Obituary: Kenneth Barclay Armitage (1925–2022)
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Opening the door to greater phylogeographic inference in Southeast Asia: Comparative genomic study of five codistributed rainforest bird species using target capture and historical DNA
(Wiley Open Access, 2020-03-06)Indochina and Sundaland are biologically diverse, interconnected regions of Southeast Asia with complex geographic histories. Few studies have examined phylogeography of bird species that span the two regions because of ... -
First occurrence of the problematic vetulicolian Skeemella clavula in the Cambrian Marjum Formation of Utah, USA
(Carnets de Geologie, 2020-05-20)The Cambrian Marjum Formation of western Utah (USA) preserves a diverse soft-bodied fauna from the upper Drumian that is slightly younger than the well-known Burgess Shale. While the Marjum is dominated by arthropods, ... -
Mimulus sRNAs Are Wound Responsive and Associated with Transgenerationally Plastic Genes but Rarely Both
(MDPI, 2020-10-13)Organisms alter development in response to environmental cues. Recent studies demonstrate that they can transmit this plasticity to progeny. While the phenotypic and transcriptomic evidence for this “transgenerational ... -
Deepening roots can enhance carbonate weathering by amplifying CO2-rich recharge
(European Geosciences Union, 2021-01-05)Carbonate weathering is essential in regulating atmospheric CO2 and carbon cycle at the century timescale. Plant roots accelerate weathering by elevating soil CO2 via respiration. It however remains poorly understood how ... -
Short- and long-term temperature responses of soil denitrifier net N2O efflux rates, inter-profile N2O dynamics, and microbial genetic potentials
(Copernicus Publications, 2020-08-26)Production and reduction of nitrous oxide (N2O) by soil denitrifiers influence atmospheric concentrations of this potent greenhouse gas. Accurate projections of the net N2O flux have three key uncertainties: (1) short- vs. ... -
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0
(Copernicus Publications, 2021-05-05)Data collected from research networks present opportunities to test theories and develop models about factors responsible for the long-term persistence and vulnerability of soil organic matter (SOM). Synthesizing datasets ... -
Optimal Control Applied to a Visceral Leishmaniasis Model
(Department of Mathematics, Texas State University, 2020-07-01)In this article, we developed a deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of visceral leishmaniasis in humans, canine reservoirs and sandflies, which is the only vector that transmits the disease parasite. The ... -
Optimal Control and Temperature Variations of Malaria Transmission Dynamics
(Hindawi, 2020-11-28)Malaria is a Plasmodium parasitic disease transmitted by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Climatic factors, such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, and wind, have significant effects on the incidence of most vector-borne ... -
Gaze coordination with strides during walking in the cat
(Wiley, 2019-08-28)Vision plays a crucial role in guiding locomotion in complex environments. However, the coordination between the gaze and stride is not well understood. We investigated this coordination in cats walking on a flat surface ... -
Using Google Health Trends to investigate COVID-19 incidence in Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2022-06-07)The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 500 million cases and over six million deaths globally. From these numbers, over 12 million cases and over 250 thousand deaths have occurred on the African continent as of May 2022. ... -
Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease
(Hindawi, 2022-05-31)Recently, tick-borne illnesses have been trending upward and are an increasing source of risk to people’s health in the United States. This is due to range expansion in tick habitats as a result of climate change. Thus, ... -
Population differentiation and structural variation in the Manduca sexta genome across the United States
(Oxford University Press, 2022-02-22)Many species that are extensively studied in the laboratory are less well characterized in their natural habitat, and laboratory strains represent only a small fraction of the variation in a species’ genome. Here we ... -
Molecular Phylogeny Reveals the Past Transoceanic Voyages of Drywood Termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)
(Public Library of Science, 2022-05-03)Termites are major decomposers in terrestrial ecosystems and the second most diverse lineage of social insects. The Kalotermitidae form the second-largest termite family and are distributed across tropical and subtropical ... -
Paleoclimate-induced stress on polar forested ecosystems prior to the Permian–Triassic mass extinction
(Nature Research, 2022-05-24)The end-Permian extinction (EPE) has been considered to be contemporaneous on land and in the oceans. However, re-examined floristic records and new radiometric ages from Gondwana indicate a nuanced terrestrial ecosystem ...
