• 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. (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 (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. (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 ...
• 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 (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. (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 (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. (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. (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. (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 (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 ...
• The spatial distribution of American black bear-human interactions in Virginia, USA 

  Malpeli, Katherine C.; Kolowski, Joseph M.; Sajecki, Jaime L. (2020)

  American black bear (Ursus americanus; hereafter, black bear) populations in Virginia, USA, have been recovering from near extirpation for the past century. The expansion of both human and bear populations has coincided ...
• High-density camera trap grid reveals lack of consistency in detection and capture rates across space and time 

  Kolowski, Joseph M.; Oley, Josephine; McShea, William J. (2021)
• Identification of novel bacterial biomarkers to detect bird scavenging by invasive rats 

  Muletz-Wolz, Carly R.; Wilson Rankin, Erin; McGrath-Blaser, Sarah; Venkatraman, Madhvi; Maldonado, Jesus E.; Gruner, Daniel S.; Fleischer, Robert C. (2021)

  Rapid advances in genomic tools for use in ecological contexts and non-model systems allow unprecedented insight into interactions that occur beyond direct observation. We developed an approach that couples microbial ...
• Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics 

  Feng, Shaohong; Stiller, Josefin; Deng, Yuan; Armstrong, Joel; Fang, Qi; Reeve, Andrew Hart; Xie, Duo; Chen, Guangji; Guo, Chunxue; Faircloth, Brant C.; Petersen, Bent; Wang, Zongji; Zhou, Qi; Diekhans, Mark; Chen, Wanjun; Andreu-Sánchez, Sergio; Margaryan, Ashot; Howard, Jason Travis; Parent, Carole; Pacheco, George; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Puetz, Lara; Cavill, Emily; Ribeiro, Ângela M.; Eckhart, Leopold; Fjeldså, Jon; Hosner, Peter A.; Brumfield, Robb T.; Christidis, Les; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Tietze, Dieter Thomas; Robertson, Bruce C.; Song, Gang; Borgia, Gerald; Claramunt, Santiago; Lovette, Irby J.; Cowen, Saul J.; Njoroge, Peter; Dumbacher, John Philip; Ryder, Oliver A.; Fuchs, Jérôme; Bunce, Michael; Burt, David W.; Cracraft, Joel; Meng, Guanliang; Hackett, Shannon J.; Ryan, Peter G.; Jønsson, Knud Andreas; Jamieson, Ian G.; da Fonseca, Rute R.; Braun, Edward L.; Houde, Peter; Mirarab, Siavash; Suh, Alexander; Hansson, Bengt; Ponnikas, Suvi; Sigeman, Hanna; Stervander, Martin; Frandsen, Paul B.; van der Zwan, Henriette; van der Sluis, Rencia; Visser, Carina; Balakrishnan, Christopher N.; Clark, Andrew G.; Fitzpatrick, John W.; Bowman, Reed; Chen, Nancy; Cloutier, Alison; Sackton, Timothy B.; Edwards, Scott V.; Foote, Dustin J.; Shakya, Subir B.; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Vignal, Alain; Soares, André E. R.; Shapiro, Beth; González-Solís, Jacob; Ferrer-Obiol, Joan; Rozas, Julio; Riutort, Marta; Tigano, Anna; Friesen, Vicki; Dalén, Love; Urrutia, Araxi O.; Székely, Tamás; Liu, Yang; Campana, Michael G.; Corvelo, André; Fleischer, Robert C.; Rutherford, Kim M.; Gemmell, Neil J.; Dussex, Nicolas; Mouritsen, Henrik; Thiele, Nadine; Delmore, Kira; Liedvogel, Miriam; Franke, Andre; Hoeppner, Marc P.; Krone, Oliver; Fudickar, Adam M.; Milá, Borja; Ketterson, Ellen D.; Fidler, Andrew Eric; Friis, Guillermo; Parody-Merino, Ángela M.; Battley, Phil F.; Cox, Murray P.; Lima, Nicholas Costa Barroso; Prosdocimi, Francisco; Parchman, Thomas Lee; Schlinger, Barney A.; Loiselle, Bette A.; Blake, John G.; Lim, Haw Chuan; Day, Lainy B.; Fuxjager, Matthew J.; Baldwin, Maude W.; Braun, Michael J.; Wirthlin, Morgan; Dikow, Rebecca B.; Ryder, T. B.; Camenisch, Glauco; Keller, Lukas F.; DaCosta, Jeffrey M.; Hauber, Mark E.; Louder, Matthew I. M.; Witt, Christopher C.; McGuire, Jimmy A.; Mudge, Joann; Megna, Libby C.; Carling, Matthew D.; Wang, Biao; Taylor, Scott A.; Del-Rio, Glaucia; Aleixo, Alexandre; Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza Ribeiro; Mello, Claudio V.; Weir, Jason T.; Haussler, David; Li, Qiye; Yang, Huanming; Wang, Jian; Lei, Fumin; Rahbek, Carsten; Gilbert, M. T.; Graves, Gary R.; Jarvis, Erich D.; Paten, Benedict; Zhang, Guojie (2020)

  Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and characterizing biodiversity1–4. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to confound phylogenetic inference5, and captures only a ...
• Sustainability Agenda for the Pantanal Wetland: Perspectives on a Collaborative Interface for Science, Policy, and Decision-Making 

  Tomas, Walfrido M.; de Oliveira Roque, Fabio; Morato, Ronaldo G.; Medici, Patricia Emilia; Chiaravalloti, Rafael M.; Tortato, Fernando R.; Penha, Jerry M. F.; Izzo, Thiago J.; Garcia, Leticia C.; Lourival, Reinaldo F. F.; Girard, Pierre; Albuquerque, Nelson R.; Almeida-Gomes, Mauricio; Andrade, Maria H. da Silva; Araujo, Flávia A. S.; Araujo, Andréa C.; Arruda, Erica C. de; Assunção, Vivian A.; Battirola, Leandro D.; Benites, Maristela; Bolzan, Fabio P.; Boock, Julia C.; Bortolotto, Ieda M.; Brasil, Marivaine da Silva; Camilo, Andre R.; Campos, Zilca; Carniello, Maria A.; Catella, Agostinho C.; Cheida, Carolina C.; Crawshaw, Peter G.; Crispim, Sandra M. A.; Junior, Geraldo A. D.; Desbiez, Arnaud L. J.; Dias, Felipe A.; Eaton, Donald P.; Faggioni, Gabriel P.; Farinaccio, Maria A.; Fernandes, Julio F. A.; Ferreira, Vanda L.; Fischer, Erich A.; Fragoso, Carlos E.; Freitas, Gabriel O.; Galvani, Fabio; Garcia, Aurea S.; Garcia, Carolina M.; Graciolli, Gustavo; Guariento, Rafael D.; Guedes, Neiva M. R.; Guerra, Angélica; Herrera, Heitor M.; Hoogesteijn, Rafael; Ikeda, Solange C.; Juliano, Raquel S.; Kantek, Daniel L. Z. K.; Keuroghlian, Alexine; Lacerda, Ana C. R.; Lacerda, André L. R.; Landeiro, Victor L.; Laps, Rudi R.; Layme, Viviane; Leimgruber, Peter; Rocha, Fabiana L.; Mamede, Simone; Marques, Débora K. S.; Marques, Marinez I.; Mateus, Lúcia A. F.; Moraes, Rosana N.; Moreira, Thamy A.; Mourão, Guilherme M.; Nicola, Rafaela D.; Nogueira, Davidson G.; Nunes, Alessandro P.; Nunes da Cunha, Catia da; Oliveira, Marcia D.; Oliveira, Maxwell R.; Paggi, Gecele M.; Pellegrin, Aiesca O.; Pereira, Guellity M. F.; Peres, Igor A. H. F. S.; Pinho, João B.; Pinto, Joao O. P.; Pott, Arnildo; Provete, Diogo B.; dos Reis, Vanderlei D. A.; dos Reis, Letícia K.; Renaud, Pierre-Cyril; Ribeiro, Danilo B.; Rossetto, Onelia C.; Sabino, José; Rumiz, Damián; Salis, Suzana M.; Santana, Diego J.; Santos, Sandra A.; Sartori, Ângela L.; Sato, Michele; Schuchmann, Karl-L; Scremin-Dias, Edna; Seixas, Gláucia H. F.; Severo-Neto, Francisco; Sigrist, Maria R.; Silva, Aguinaldo; Silva, Carolina J.; Siqueira, André L.; Soriano, Balbina M. A.; Sousa, Laercio M.; Souza, Franco L.; Strussmann, Christine; Sugai, Larissa S. M.; Tocantins, Nely; Urbanetz, Catia; Valente-Neto, Francisco; Viana, Diego P.; Yanosky, Alberto; Junk, Wolfgang J. (2019)
• Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest 

  McGregor, Ian R.; Helcoski, Ryan; Kunert, Norbert; Tepley, Alan J.; González-Akre, Erika B.; Herrmann, Valentine; Zailaa, Joseph; Stovall, Atticus E. L.; Bourg, Norman A.; McShea, William J.; Pederson, Neil; Sack, Lawren; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. (2020)
• Little genetic structure in a Bornean endemic small mammal across a steep ecological gradient 

  Parker, Lillian D.; Hawkins, Melissa T. R.; Camacho-Sanchez, Miguel; Campana, Michael G.; West-Roberts, Jacob; Wilbert, Tammy R.; Lim, Haw Chuan; Rockwood, Larry L.; Leonard, Jennifer A.; Maldonado, Jesús E. (2020)

  Abstract Janzen?s influential ?mountain passes are higher in the tropics? hypothesis predicts restricted gene flow and genetic isolation among populations spanning elevational gradients in the tropics. Few studies have ...
• Management Regime and Field Age Affect Species Richness and Cover of Native Forbs and Exotic Species in Virginia Grasslands 

  Ledvina, Joseph; McShea, William J.; Bourg, Norman A.; Herrmann, Valentine; Akre, Thomas; Johnson, Amy E. M. (2020)

  The majority of grasslands in the eastern United States are maintained through agricultural use (livestock grazing and hay production), intermittent management as fallow fields, or active management for ecological or ...

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