• Building an Investment Case for Co-management of Ecosystems, Food Systems & Public Health in Africa: A Report of the Ecosystems, Finance & Health Inception Workshop, March 19-22, Namunyak Conservancy, Samburu, Kenya 

  Hassell, James M. ; Kamau, Joseph (Smithsonian National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute, 2024)

  This workshop gathered 40 leading experts from science, finance, governments, NGOs and communities to explore the feasibility of building an investment case and de-risking mechanisms for co-management of ecosystems and ...
• Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses 

  Steidinger, B. S.; Crowther, T. W.; Liang, J.; Van Nuland, M. E.; Werner, G. D. A.; Reigh, P. B.; Nabuurs, G. J.; de-Miguel, S.; Zhou, M.; Picard, N.; Herault, B.; Zhao, X.; Zhang, C.; Routh, D.; Peay, K. G.; GFBI Consortium (2019)
• How Is climate change affecting polar bears and giant pandas? 

  Songer, Melissa; Atwood, Todd C.; Douglas, David C.; Huang, Qiongyu; Li, Renqiang; Pilfold, Nicholas W.; Xu, Ming; Durner, George M. (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause of climate change and an estimated increase of 3.7 to 4.8 °C is predicted by the year 2100 if emissions continue at current levels. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) ...
• Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository 

  Hagedorn, Mary; Parenti, Lynne R.; Craddock, Robert A.; Comizzoli, Pierre; Mabee, Paula; Meinke, Bonnie; Wolf, Susan M.; Bischof, John C.; Sandlin, Rebecca D.; Tessier, Shannon N.; Toner, Mehmet (2024)

  Earth's biodiversity is increasingly threatened and at risk. We propose a passive lunar biorepository for long-term storage of prioritized taxa of live cryopreserved samples to safeguard Earth's biodiversity and to support ...
• Multilocus phylogeography, population genetics and niche evolution of Australian brown and black-tailed treecreepers (Aves: <i>Climacteris</i> ) 

  Edwards, Scott V.; Tonini, João F. R.; Mcinerney, Nancy; Welch, Corey; Beerli, Peter (2023)

  The Carpentarian barrier across north-eastern Australia is a major biogeographic barrier and a generator of biodiversity within the Australian Monsoonal Tropics. Here we present a continent-wide analysis of mitochondrial ...
• Thermal sensitivity across forest vertical profiles: patterns, mechanisms, and ecological implications 

  Vinod, Nidhi; Slot, Martijn; McGregor, Ian R.; Ordway, Elsa M.; Smith, Marielle N.; Taylor, Tyeen C.; Sack, Lawren; Buckley, Thomas N.; Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J. (2023)

  Rising temperatures are influencing forests on many scales, with potentially strong variation vertically across forest strata. Using published research and new analyses, we evaluate how microclimate and leaf temperatures, ...
• Leaf habit affects the distribution of drought sensitivity but not water transport efficiency in the tropics 

  Vargas G., German; Kunert, Norbert; Hammond, William M.; Berry, Z. Carter; Werden, Leland K.; Smith‐Martin, Chris M.; Wolfe, Brett T.; Toro, Laura; Mondragón‐Botero, Ariadna; Pinto‐Ledezma, Jesús N.; Schwartz, Naomi B.; Uriarte, María; Sack, Lawren; Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J.; Powers, Jennifer S. (Wiley, 2022)

  Considering the global intensification of aridity in tropical biomes due to climate change, we need to understand what shapes the distribution of drought sensitivity in tropical plants. We conducted a pantropical data ...
• Context Matters in the fight to Save Frogs 

  Gratwicke, Brian (University Press of Florida, 2022)
• <I>allodb</I>: An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots 

  González-Akre, Erika B.; Piponiot, Camille; Lepore, Mauro; Herrmann, Valentine; Lutz, James A.; Baltzer, Jennifer L.; Dick, Christopher W.; Gilbert, Gregory S.; He, Fangliang; Heym, Michael; Huerta, Alejandra, I.; Jansen, Patrick A.; Johnson, Daniel J.; Knapp, Nikolai; Kral, Kamil; Lin, Dunmei; Malhi, Yadvinder; McMahon, Sean M.; Myers, Jonathan A.; Orwig, David; Rodriguez-Hernandez, Diego I.; Russo, Sabrina E.; Shue, Jessica; Wang, Xugao; Wolf, Amy; Yang, Tonghui; Davies, Stuart J.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. (Wiley, 2022)

  Allometric equations for calculation of tree above-ground biomass (AGB) form the basis for estimates of forest carbon storage and exchange with the atmosphere. While standard models exist to calculate forest biomass across ...
• Effects of Lupron and surgical castration on fecal androgen metabolite concentrations and intermale aggression in capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) 

  Yu, Jennifer H.; Brown, Janine; Boisseau, Nicole; Barthel, Tony; Murray, Suzan (Wiley, 2021)

  To curb agonistic interactions in a bachelor group of three male capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), a single dose of leuprolide acetate (Lupron (R)) was used in an attempt to chemically sterilize the males. Concurrently, ...
• Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests 

  Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Herrmann, Valentine; Rollinson, Christine R.; Gonzalez, Bianca; González-Akre, Erika B.; Pederson, Neil; Alexander, M. Ross; Allen, Craig D.; Alfaro-Sanchez, Raquel; Awada, Tala; Baltzer, Jennifer L.; Baker, Patrick J.; Birch, Joseph D.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Cherubini, Paolo; Davies, Stuart J.; Dow, Cameron; Helcoski, Ryan; Kaspar, Jakub; Lutz, James A.; Margolis, Ellis Q.; Maxwell, Justin T.; McMahon, Sean M.; Piponiot, Camille; Russo, Sabrina E.; Samonil, Pavel; Sniderhan, Anastasia E.; Tepley, Alan J.; Vasickova, Ivana; Vlam, Mart; Zuidema, Pieter A. (Wiley, 2021)

  Tree rings provide an invaluable long-term record for understanding how climate and other drivers shape tree growth and forest productivity. However, conventional tree-ring analysis methods were not designed to simultaneously ...
• The Natural Environment &amp; Health in Africa 

  Hassell, James M.; Bukachi, Salome A.; Muloi, Dishon M.; Takahashi, Emi; Franklinos, Lydia (WWF and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, 2021)

  Much of recent human development has come at the expense of Nature - undermining ecosystems, fragmenting habitats, reducing biodiversity, and increasing our exposure and vulnerability to emerging diseases. For example, as ...
• Genetic structure and population history in two critically endangered Kaua&#39;i honeycreepers 

  Cassin-Sackett, Loren; Campana, Michael G.; McInerney, Nancy Rotzel; Lim, Haw Chuan; Przelomska, Natalia A. S.; Masuda, Bryce; Chesser, R. Terry; Paxton, Eben H.; Foster, Jeffrey T.; Crampton, Lisa H.; Fleischer, Robert C. (Springer, 2021)

  Population sizes of endemic songbirds on Kaua&#39;i have decreased by an order of magnitude over the past 10-15 years to dangerously low numbers. The primary cause appears to be the ascent of invasive mosquitoes and ...
• Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities 

  Wiegand, Thorsten; Wang, Xugao; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Bourg, Norman A.; Cao, Min; Ci, Xiuqin; Davies, Stuart J.; Hao, Zhanqing; Howe, Robert W.; Kress, W. John; Lian, Juyu; Li, Jie; Lin, Luxiang; Lin, Yiching; Ma, Keping; McShea, William; Mi, Xiangcheng; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sun, I-Fang; Wolf, Amy; Ye, Wanhui; Huth, Andreas (Nature Research, 2021)

  Ecology cannot yet fully explain why so many tree species coexist in natural communities such as tropical forests. A major difficulty is linking individual-level processes to community dynamics. We propose a combination ...
• Serum Biochemistry and Select Mineral Parameters of Pre-Release Sunda Pangolins (Manis Javanica) Following Rehabilitation in Vietnam 

  Yu, Jennifer H.; Ngoc Duyen Huong Nguyen; Lam, Hai Kim; Jimerson, Jessica; Hayek, Lee-Ann C.; Raphael, Bonnie L.; Van Thai Nguyen; Valitutto, Marc T. (American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, 2021)

  Native to Southeast Asia, the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) is critically endangered largely because of poorly regulated wildlife trade, consumptive practices, and use in traditional Chinese medicine. Efforts to rescue ...
• Cefovecin pharmacokinetics after single-dose intramuscular administration in cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) 

  Yu, Jennifer H.; Papich, Mark G.; Torres, Rodrigo Garces; Emerson, Jessica; Kinney, Matthew E.; Helmick, Kelly; Crosier, Adrienne; Sanchez, Carlos R.; Murray, Suzan (Wiley, 2021)

  Cefovecin is a third-generation cephalosporin with potential value for use in exotic felids due to its long duration of action. A sparse sampling protocol was implemented with 18 zoo-housed cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) to ...
• Transcriptome assembly and differential gene expression of the invasive avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum in HawaiModified Letter Turned Commai 

  Videvall, Elin; Paxton, Kristina L.; Campana, Michael G.; Cassin-Sackett, Loren; Atkinson, Carter T.; Fleischer, Robert C. (Wiley, 2021)

  The malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum (lineage GRW4) was introduced less than a century ago to the native avifauna of HawaiModified Letter Turned Commai, where it has since caused major declines of endemic bird populations. ...
• Global patterns of forest autotrophic carbon fluxes 

  Banbury Morgan, Rebecca; Herrmann, Valentine; Kunert, Norbert; Bond-Lamberty, Ben; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. (Wiley, 2021)

  Carbon (C) fixation, allocation, and metabolism by trees set the basis for energy and material flows in forest ecosystems and define their interactions with Earth&#39;s changing climate. However, while many studies have ...
• Nearly sixty percent of Sri Lanka&#39;s mammals inhabiting the rainforests face extinction: time is short to conserve these forest and their diverse dependents 

  Dittus, Wolfgang P. J. (Sri Lanka Forest Department, 2018)
• Use of a Portable Analyzer for Venous Blood Gas and Biochemistry Analysis in Free-ranging Indian Flying Foxes (Pteropus giganteus) in Myanmar 

  Kishbaugh, Jennifer C.; Valitutto, Marc T.; Aung, Ohnmar; Tun, Kyaw Yan Naing; Hayek, Lee-Ann C.; Yu, Jennifer H.; Murray, Suzan (Wildlife Disease Association, Incorporated, 2021)

  We determined venous blood gas, acid-base, and biochemical parameters for thirteen free-ranging Indian flying foxes (Pteropus giganteus) in Myanmar, using a handheld i-STAT analyzer with CC8+ and CHEM8 cartridges. For ...

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