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    • Pine savanna restoration on agricultural landscapes: The path back to native savanna ecosystem services 

      Dixon, Cinnamon M.; Robertson, Kevin M.; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Sikes, Benjamin A. (Elsevier, 2022-04-20)
      Restoration of savanna ecosystems within their historic range is expected to increase provision of ecosystem services to resident human populations. However, the benefits of restoration depend on the degree to which ...

    • Quantifying ecological variation across jurisdictional boundaries in a management mosaic landscape 

      Aslan, Clare E.; Zachmann, Luke; McClure, Meredith; Sikes, Benjamin A.; Veloz, Samuel; Brunson, Mark W.; Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca S.; Dickson, Brett G. (Springer, 2021-04)
      Context Large landscapes exhibit natural heterogeneity. Land management can impose additional variation, altering ecosystem patterns. Habitat characteristics may reflect these management factors, potentially resulting in ...

    • Demography of botfly (Cuterebra fontinella) parasitism in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Kansas 

      Timm, Robert M.; Ruedebusch, Cory R. (2022-10)
      Botflies (Diptera: Cuterebra sp.) are widely distributed and seasonally abundant parasites of small mammals in North America. To assess their effect on rodent survival, we studied the demography of botfly parasitism on ...

    • Root pathogen diversity and composition varies with climate in undisturbed grasslands, but less so in anthropogenically disturbed grasslands 

      Delavaux, Camille S.; Schemanski, Josh L.; House, Geoffrey L.; Tipton, Alice G.; Sikes, Benjamin A.; Bever, James D. (Springer Nature, 2020-09-21)
      Soil-borne pathogens structure plant communities, shaping their diversity, and through these effects may mediate plant responses to climate change and disturbance. Little is known, however, about the environmental determinants ...

    • Coupled ecological and management connectivity across administrative boundaries in undeveloped landscapes 

      Aslan, Clare E.; Brunson, Mark W.; Sikes, Benjamin A.; Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca S.; Veloz, Samuel; Theobald, David M.; Dickson, Brett G. (Wiley Open Access, 2021-01-12)
      Human-induced ecological boundaries, or anthropogenic ecotones, may arise where administrative boundaries meet on undeveloped lands. Landscape-level ecological processes related to factors such as fire, invasive species, ...

    • Spatial release from masking in crocodilians 

      Thévenet, Julie; Papet, Léo; Campos, Zilca; Greenfield, Michael; Boyer, Nicolas; Grimault, Nicolas; Mathevon, Nicolas (Nature Research, 2022-08-25)
      Ambient noise is a major constraint on acoustic communication in both animals and humans. One mechanism to overcome this problem is Spatial Release from Masking (SRM), the ability to distinguish a target sound signal from ...

    • Gtsf1 is essential for proper female sex determination and transposon silencing in the silkworm, Bombyx mori 

      Chen, Kai; Yu, Ye; Yang, Dehong; Yang, Xu; Tang, Linmeng; Liu, Yujia; Luo, Xingyu; Walter, James R.; Liu, Zulian; Xu, Jun; Huang, Yongping (Geological Society of America, 2020-11-02)
      Sex determination pathways are astoundingly diverse in insects. For instance, the silk moth Bombyx mori uniquely use various components of the piRNA pathway to produce the Fem signal for specification of the female fate. ...

    • Response to Stephens et al. (2019) 

      Peterson, A. Townsend; Soberón, Jorge; Ramsey, Janine; Osorio-Olvera, Luis (University of Kansas, 2020-01-31)
      Rebuttal to Stephens et al. (2019), as part of a debate format.

    • Community structure of soil fungi in a novel perennial crop monoculture, annual agriculture, and native prairie reconstruction 

      McKenna, Thomas P.; Crews, Timothy E.; Kemp, Laura; Sikes, Benjamin A. (Public Library of Science, 2020-01-30)
      The use of perennial crop species in agricultural systems may increase ecosystem services and sustainability. Because soil microbial communities play a major role in many processes on which ecosystem services and sustainability ...

    • Predicting Abundances of Aedes mcintoshi, a primary Rift Valley fever virus mosquito vector 

      Campbell, Lindsay P.; Reuman, Daniel C.; Lutomiah, Joel; Peterson, A. Townsend; Linthicum, Kenneth J.; Britch, Seth C.; Anyamba, Assaf; Sang, Rosemary (Public Library of Science, 2019-12-17)
      Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus with important livestock and human health, and economic consequences across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Climate and vegetation monitoring guide ...

    • A new variance ratio metric to detect the timescale of compensatory dynamics 

      Zhao, Lei; Wang, Shaopeng; Hallett, Lauren M.; Rypel, Andrew L.; Sheppard, Lawrence W.; Castorani, Max C. N.; Shoemaker, Lauren G.; Cottingham, Kathryn L.; Suding, Katharine; Reuman, Daniel C. (Wiley Open Access, 2020-05-06)
      Understanding the mechanisms governing ecological stability—why a property such as primary productivity is stable in some communities and variable in others—has long been a focus of ecology. Compensatory dynamics, in which ...

    • Tail associations in ecological variables and their impact on extinction risk 

      Ghosh, Shyamolina; Sheppard, Lawrence W.; Reuman, Daniel C. (Ecological Society of America, 2020-05-13)
      Extreme climatic events (ECEs) are becoming more frequent and more intense due to climate change. Furthermore, there is reason to believe ECEs may modify "tail associations" between distinct population vital rates, or ...

    • A new approach to interspecific synchrony in population ecology using tail association 

      Ghosh, Shyamolina; Sheppard, Lawrence W.; Reid, Philip C.; Reuman, Daniel (Wiley Open Access, 2020-11-10)
      Standard methods for studying the association between two ecologically important variables provide only a small slice of the information content of the association, but statistical approaches are available that provide ...

    • 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 (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 

      Castaño-Quintero, Sandra; Escobar-Luján, Jazmín; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Peterson, A. Townsend; Chiappa-Carrara, Xavier; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique; Yañez-Arenas, Carlos (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 

      Romero-Alvarez, Daniel; Peterson, A. Townsend; Salzer, Johanna S.; Pittiglio, Claudia; Shadomy, Sean; Traxler, Rita; Vieira, Antonio R.; Bower, William A.; Walke, Henry; Campbell, Lindsay P. (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 

      Zurell, Damaris; Franklin, Janet; König, Christian; Bouchet, Phil J.; Dormann, Carsten F.; Elith, Jane; Fandos, Guillermo; Feng, Xiao; Guillera-Arroita, Gurutzeta; Guisan, Antoine; Lahoz-Monfort, José J.; Leitão, Pedro J.; Park, Daniel S.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Rapacciuolo, Giovanni; Schmatz, Dirk R.; Schröder, Boris; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Thuiller, Wilfried; Yates, Katherine L.; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Merow, Cory (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 

      Owens, Hannah L.; Ribeiro, Vivian; Saupe, Erin E.; Cobos, Marlon E.; Hosner, Peter A.; Cooper, Jacob C.; Samy, Abdallah M.; Barve, Vijay; Barve, Narayani; Muñoz-R., Carlos J.; Peterson, A. Townsend (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) 

      Salsbury, Carmen M.; Van Vuren, Dirk H.; Fairbanks, W. Sue; Barthelmess, Erika L.; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Koprowski, John L.; Timm, Robert M. (Journal of Mammalogy, 2022-08)

    • 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 

      Lim, Haw Chuan; Shakya, Subir B.; Harvey, Michael G.; Moyle, Robert G.; Fleischer, Robert C.; Braun, Michael J.; Sheldon, Frederick H. (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 ...