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Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Predicting suitable environments and potential occurrences for coelacanths (Latimeria spp.)
(Springer Verlag, 2011)Extant coelacanths (Latimeria chalumnae) were first discovered in the western Indian Ocean in 1938; in 1998, a second species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis, was discovered off the north coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, ... -
Book Review: Effects of Climate Change on Birds
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Toward Open Access: it takes a village
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Academics and librarians have worked in tandem for many years to broaden access to the scholarship they create, scrutinize, collect, and consume. Recent developments have focused on campus faculty advocating for change ... -
Open Access 101 for Future Scholars/Researchers
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Predicting species invasions using ecological niche modeling
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Modeled climate change effects on distributions of Canadian butterfly species
(National Research Council Canada, 2004-07-30)Abstract: Climate change effects on biodiversity are being documented now frequently in the form of changes in phenology and distributional shifts. However, the form that these effects will take over a longer timespan is ... -
Invasive potential of common carp (*Cyprinus carpio*) and Nile tilapia (*Oreochromis niloticus*) in American freshwater systems
(National Research Council Canada, 2006-07-25)Nonnative fish introductions disrupt ecosystem processes and can drive native species to local extinction. Two of the most widespread, introduced species are the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from Eurasia and the Nile tilapia ... -
Fine-scale predictions of distributions of Chagas disease vectors in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico
(Entomological Society of America, 2005-11)One of the most daunting challenges for Chagas disease surveillance and control in Mexico is the lack of community level data on vector distributions. Although many states now have assembled representative domestic ... -
A bird-finding guide to Mexico [Review]
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Birder's Mexico [review]
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Ecological niche and potential geographic distribution of the invasive fruit fly *Bactrocera invadens* (Diptera, Tephritidae)
(CAB International Publishing, 2010-02)Two correlative approaches to the challenge of ecological niche modeling (genetic algorithm, maximum entropy) were used to estimate the potential global distribution of the invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera invadens, based ... -
Preliminary global assessment of terrestrial biodiversity consequences of sea level rise mediated by climate change
(Springer, 2010-02-25)Considerable attention has focused on the climatic effects of global climate change on biodiversity, but few analyses and no broad assessments have evaluated the effects of sea level rise on biodiversity. Taking advantage ... -
Phylogenetic relationships of flowerpeckers (Aves: Dicaeidae): Novel insights into the evolution of a tropical passerine clade
(Elsevier Inc., 2009-12)Understanding the relationships and evolution of flowerpeckers has been challenging, particularly as no phylogenetic study has as yet assessed the group. Here, we present a first such analysis of this clade based on sequences ... -
Molecular systematics and evolution of the Cyanocorax jays
(Elsevier Inc., 2010-03)Phylogenetic relationships were studied in the genus Cyanocorax (Aves: Corvidae) and related genera, Psilorhinus and Calocitta, a diverse group of New World jays distributed from the southern United States south to Argentina. ... -
Uses and requirements of ecological niche models and related distributional models
(University of Kansas, 2006)Modeling approaches that relate known occurrences of species to landscape features to discover ecological properties and predict geographic occurrences have seen extensive recent application in ecology, systematics, and ... -
Predicting the geography of species' invasions via ecological niche modeling
(University of Chicago Press, 2003-12)Species’ invasions have long been regarded as enormously complex processes, so complex as to defy predictivity. Phases of this process, however, are emerging as highly predictable: the potential geographic course of an ... -
Speciation in the Emerald Toucanet (*Aulacorhynchus prasinus*) complex
(University of California Press, 2008-01)We analyzed genetic variation in the Emerald Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus), a species complex that ranges primarily along the montane forests of southern and eastern Mexico south to Bolivia. Segments of three mitochondrial ...