A5062529837- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Research Data Management Practices
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Advancements in Photolithography Techniques
- Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Data Visualization and Analytics
Binghamton University
2024-2025
University of Nevada, Reno
2022-2024
University of Connecticut
2019-2023
University of Illinois at Springfield
1999
Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y human population has grown from 1 million to 7.8 billion. Much of Earth’s arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions acres tropical forest cleared each year (2, 3), atmospheric CO2 levels at their highest concentrations more than 3 (4), and climates erratically steadily changing pole pole, triggering unprecedented droughts, fires, floods across continents. Indeed, most biologists agree that world entered its sixth mass extinction event,...
Abstract Systematic review, meta‐analysis and other forms of evidence synthesis are critical to strengthen the base concerning conservation issues answer ecological evolutionary questions. Synthesis lags behind pace scientific publishing, however, due time resource costs which partial automation tasks could reduce. Additionally, current methods retrieving for susceptible bias towards studies with researchers familiar. In fields that lack standardized terminology encoded in an ontology,...
Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of losses are dire. Butterflies most surveyed taxa, yet analyses limited in geographic scale or rely on data from a single monitoring program. Using records 12.6 million individual butterflies >76,000 surveys 35 programs, we characterized overall species-specific butterfly abundance trends contiguous United States. Between 2000 2020, total fell by 22% 554 recorded species. Species-level were...
Abstract Scientific and public interest in the global status of insects has surged recently; however, understanding relative importance different stressors their interconnections remains a crucial problem. We use meta-synthetic approach to integrate recent hypotheses about insect responses into network containing 3385 edges 108 nodes. The is highly interconnected, with agricultural intensification most often identified as root cause. Habitat-related variables are connected appear be...
ABSTRACT Bird beaks are highly adaptable, with the potential to undergo rapid morphological shifts in response environmental change such as climatic variation or food availability. Anna's Hummingbirds ( Calypte anna ) have undergone dramatic population range expansions over last 160 years into novel regimes, where supplemental feeders and introduced plant species frequented. We used museum specimens measure characterize shape of Hummingbird bills, hypothesizing that introduction sources...
Abstract The fate of insects in the Anthropocene has been widely discussed scientific literature, popular media, and policy circles. This recent attention is justified because reductions insect abundance diversity have potential to undermine stability terrestrial ecosystems. Reports declines also accompanied by skepticism that healthy be expected discussion. However, we are concerned about a prevalent misconception equates reports from monitored natural areas with global status insects. In...
Abstract Synthesis research in ecology and environmental science improves understanding, advances theory, identifies priorities, supports management strategies by linking data, ideas, tools. Accelerating challenges increases the need to focus synthesis on most pressing questions. To leverage input from broader community, we convened a virtual workshop with participants many countries disciplines examine how where can address key questions themes coming decade. Seven priority topics emerged:...
Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving ...Emotions felt in body, somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious experiences. Here reveal maps bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In ...
Word fluency in 45 medicated non-demented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and normal control subjects was studied with a Phonemic Fluency (PWF) task using the letters F, A, S, Semantic (SWF) categories animals, boys' names, states, an Alternating (AWF) requiring person to alternate between colors occupations, animals words beginning C P. The number of generated did not differ for trials or but PD significantly fewer animal names names. also on each three AWF trials. scored 21% lower than...
Abstract Biodiversity is in crisis, and insects are no exception. To understand insect population community trends globally, it necessary to identify synthesize diverse datasets representing different taxa, regions, habitats. The relevant literature is, however, vast challenging aggregate. Entomological Global Evidence Map (EntoGEM) project a systematic effort search for catalogue studies with long‐term data that can be used changes abundance diversity. Here, we present the overall EntoGEM...
Abstract Ongoing declines in insect populations have led to substantial concern and calls for conservation action. However, even relatively well studied groups, like butterflies, information relevant species‐specific status risk is scattered across field guides, the scientific literature, agency reports. Consequently, attention resources been spent on a minuscule fraction of diversity, including few butterflies. Here we bring together heterogeneous sources 396 butterfly species provide first...
Abstract Understanding how populations respond to climate is fundamentally important many questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Climate complex multifaceted, with aspects affecting different sometimes unexpected ways. Thus, when measuring the changing it consider complexity of phenomenon number ways can be characterized through metrics. We used a Bayesian sparse modeling approach select among 80 metrics applied 19 datasets bird, insect, plant population responses abiotic...
Abstract Background Insects play a central role in the functioning of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems contribute to multitude ecosystem services managed unmanaged systems Even local declines insect abundance richness can have enormous ecological economic consequences. Evidence-informed conservation actions are essential prevent potential cascading consequences declines, help declining populations recover. Policy-makers rely on syntheses primary research, such as reviews meta-analyses,...
Abstract The proliferation of high-dimensional data in ecology and evolutionary biology raise the promise statistical machine learning models that are highly predictive interpretable. However, commonly burdened with an inherent trade-off: in-sample prediction outcomes will improve as additional predictors included model, but this may come at cost poor accuracy limited generalizability for future or unsampled observations (out-of-sample prediction). To confront problem overfitting, sparse can...
Exposure to brighter nights and darker days causes circadian disruption, which accompanies poor health outcomes that increase mortality risk. Whether personal day night light exposure predicts risk is not known. This study ...Light enhances or disrupts rhythms, depending on the timing of exposure. Circadian disruption contributes has been established. We ...