A5064740132- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Ion channel regulation and function
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Marine animal studies overview
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Census and Population Estimation
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Science Museum of Minnesota
2025
University of Minnesota
2025
University of Montana
2021-2024
Bell Museum of Natural History
2024
Virginia Tech
2019-2021
University of Nevada, Reno
2011-2014
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
2014
Natural history museums are vital repositories of specimens, samples and data that inform about the natural world; this Formal Comment revisits a Perspective advocated for adoption compassionate collection practices, querying whether it will ever be possible to completely do away with whole animal specimen collection.
The relative importance of abiotic and biotic factors in determining species distributions has long been interest to ecologists but is often difficult assess due the lack spatially temporally robust occurrence records. Furthermore, locating places where potentially highly competitive co‐occur may be challenging would provide critical knowledge into effects competition on ranges. We built distribution models for two closely related small mammals ( Neotoma ) that are largely parapatric along...
Reconstructing the assembly of local ecological communities requires insight from a wide range disciplines including biogeography, paleontology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Community depends on availability species in regional pool (a “biota”), which itself is assembled through history diversification, geographic shifting, adaptive responses to environmental change. The Great Basin contains diverse mammal biota sorted into along elevational, latitudinal, structural habitat gradients....
Reconstructing the histories of complex adaptations and identifying evolutionary mechanisms underlying their origins are two primary goals biology. Taricha newts, which contain high concentrations deadly toxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) as an antipredator defense, have evolved resistance to self-intoxication, is a adaptation requiring changes in six paralogs voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav) gene family, physiological target TTX. Here, we reconstruct TTX self-resistance by sequencing entire Nav...
Abstract Aim To reconstruct the regional biogeographical history of bushy‐tailed woodrat, Neotoma cinerea (Rodentia: Cricetidae), across its distribution using multiple sources information, including genetic data, ecological niche models and palaeorecord. Location Western North America. Methods We analysed complete cytochrome b gene (1143 bp) sequences from 182 specimens N. Bayesian coalescent methods to infer phylogenetic relationships, time major divergences, recent demographic trends. For...
The inverse relationship between body size and environmental temperature is a widespread ecogeographic pattern. However, the underlying forces that produce this pattern are unclear in many taxa. Expectations particularly for migratory species, as individuals may escape extremes reorient themselves along gradient. In addition, some aspects of largely fixed while others environmentally flexible vary seasonally. Here, we used long‐term dataset tracked multiple populations piping plover...
The relative importance of abiotic and biotic factors in determining species distributions has long been interest to ecologists but is often difficult assess due the lack spatially temporally robust occurrence records. Furthermore, locating places where potentially highly competitive co-occur may be challenging would provide critical knowledge into effects competition on ranges. We built distribution models for two closely related small mammals (Neotoma) that are largely parapatric along...
Abstract Reconstructing the histories of complex adaptations and identifying evolutionary mechanisms underlying their origins are two primary goals biology. Taricha newts, which contain high concentrations deadly toxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) as an antipredator defense, have evolved resistance to self-intoxication, is a adaptation requiring changes in six paralogs voltage-gated sodium channel (Na v ) gene family, physiological target TTX. Here, we reconstruct TTX self-resistance by sequencing...