• Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities 

  Detto, Matteo; Visser, Marco D.; Wright, S. J.; Pacala, Stephen W. (2019)

  Regression dilution is a statistical inference bias that causes underestimation of the strength of dependency between two variables when the predictors are error-prone proxies (EPPs). EPPs are widely used in plant community ...
• Total-Evidence Framework Reveals Complex Morphological Evolution in Nightbirds (Strisores) 

  Chen, Albert; White, Noor D.; Benson, Roger B. J.; Braun, Michael J.; Field, Daniel J. (2019)

  Strisores is a clade of neoavian birds that include diurnal aerial specialists such as swifts and hummingbirds, as well as several predominantly nocturnal lineages such as nightjars and potoos. Despite the use of genome-scale ...
• Urohidrosis and tarsal color in Cathartes vultures (Aves: Cathartidae) 

  Graves, Gary R. (2019)
• Calculation of narrower confidence intervals for tree mortality rates when we know nothing but the location of the death/survival events 

  Arellano, Gabriel (2019)

  Many ecological applications, like the study of mortality rates, require the estimation of proportions and confidence intervals for them. The traditional way of doing this applies the binomial distribution, which describes ...
• Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities 

  Shipps, B. K.; Peredo, Carlos Mauricio; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (2019)

  Baleen whales (mysticetes) lack teeth as adults and instead filter feed using keratinous baleen plates. They do not echolocate with ultrasonic frequencies like toothed whales but are instead known for infrasonic acoustics. ...

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