Search Results - "Morgan, K. S"

Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems: how metacommunity processes alter ecosystems attributes by Leibold, Mathew A., Chase, Jonathan M., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Recent work linking community structure and ecosystem function has primarily focused on the effects of local species richness but has neglected the…”
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Species-level and community-level responses to disturbance: a cross-community analysis by Supp, Sarah R, Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Communities are comprised of individual species that respond to changes in their environment depending in part on their niche requirements. These species…”
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Long-term community change through multiple rapid transitions in a desert rodent community by Christensen, Erica M., Harris, David J., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…While studies increasingly document long-term change in community composition, whether long-term change occurs gradually or via rapid reorganization events…”
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Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals by Smith, Felisa A, Boyer, Alison G, Brown, James H, Costa, Daniel P, Dayan, Tamar, Ernest, S.K. Morgan, Evans, Alistair R, Fortelius, Mikael, Gittleman, John L, Hamilton, Marcus J, Harding, Larisa E, Lintulaakso, Kari, Lyons, S. Kathleen, McCain, Christy, Okie, Jordan G, Saarinen, Juha J, Sibly, Richard M, Stephens, Patrick R, Theodor, Jessica, Uhen, Mark D

“…The extinction of dinosaurs at the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary was the seminal event that opened the door for the subsequent diversification of…”
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Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach by Bannar‐Martin, Katherine H., Kremer, Colin T., Ernest, S.K. Morgan, Leibold, Mathew A., Auge, Harald, Chase, Jonathan, Declerck, Steven A.J., Eisenhauer, Nico, Harpole, Stanley, Hillebrand, Helmut, Isbell, Forest, Koffel, Thomas, Larsen, Stefano, Narwani, Anita, Petermann, Jana S., Roscher, Christiane, Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, Supp, Sarah R., Anderson, Marti

“…The research of a generation of ecologists was catalysed by the recognition that the number and identity of species in communities influences the functioning…”
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Maintenance of community function through compensation breaks down over time in a desert rodent community by Diaz, Renata M., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Understanding the ecological processes that maintain community function in systems experiencing species loss, and how these processes change over time, is key…”
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Resource Pulses, Species Interactions, and Diversity Maintenance in Arid and Semi-Arid Environments by Chesson, Peter, Gebauer, Renate L. E., Schwinning, Susan, Huntly, Nancy, Wiegand, Kerstin, Ernest, Morgan S. K., Sher, Anna, Novoplansky, Ariel, Weltzin, Jake F.

“…Arid environments are characterized by limited and variable rainfall that supplies resources in pulses. Resource pulsing is a special form of environmental…”
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Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species? by Yenni, Glenda, Adler, Peter B., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Understanding why so many species are rare yet persistent remains a significant challenge for both theoretical and empirical ecologists. Yenni et al. (2012,…”
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Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data by Yenni, Glenda M, Christensen, Erica M, Bledsoe, Ellen K, Supp, Sarah R, Diaz, Renata M, White, Ethan P, Ernest, S K Morgan

“…Over the past decade, biology has undergone a data revolution in how researchers collect data and the amount of data being collected. An emerging challenge…”
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InsectChange: a global database of temporal changes in insect and arachnid assemblages by van Klink, Roel, Bowler, Diana E., Comay, Orr, Driessen, Michael M., Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Gentile, Alessandro, Gilbert, Francis, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Owen, Jennifer, Pe’er, Guy, Pe’er, Israel, Resh, Vincent H., Rochlin, Ilia, Schuch, Sebastian, Swengel, Ann B., Swengel, Scott R., Valone, Thomas J., Vermeulen, Rikjan, Wepprich, Tyson, Wiedmann, Jerome L., Chase, Jonathan M.

“…Insects are the most ubiquitous and diverse group of eukaryotic organisms on Earth, forming a crucial link in terrestrial and freshwater food webs. They have…”
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Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species by Yenni, Glenda, Adler, Peter B, Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Theory has recognized a combination of niche and neutral processes each contributing, with varying importance, to species coexistence. However, long-term…”
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Evaluating probabilistic ecological forecasts by Simonis, Juniper L., White, Ethan P., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Probabilistic near-term forecasting facilitates evaluation of model predictions against observations and is of pressing need in ecology to inform environmental…”
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Transferability of ecological forecasting models to novel biotic conditions in a long‐term experimental study by Dumandan, Patricia Kaye T., Simonis, Juniper L., Yenni, Glenda M., Ernest, S. K. Morgan, White, Ethan P.

“…Ecological forecasting models play an increasingly important role for managing natural resources and assessing our fundamental knowledge of processes driving…”
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Empirical abundance distributions are more uneven than expected given their statistical baseline by Diaz, Renata M., Ye, Hao, Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Chase, Jonathan

“…Exploring and accounting for the emergent properties of ecosystems as complex systems is a promising horizon in the search for general processes to explain…”
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Shifts in competitive structures can drive variation in species' phenology by Dumandan, Patricia Kaye T., Yenni, Glenda M., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Abstract For many species, a well documented response to anthropogenic climate change is a shift in various aspects of its life history, including its timing…”
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Niche opportunities and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community by Allington, Ginger R. H., Koons, David N., Morgan Ernest, S. K., Schutzenhofer, Michele R., Valone, Thomas J.

“…Although many factors influence the ability of exotics to invade successfully, most studies focus on only a few variables to explain invasion; attempts at…”
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Ten Simple Rules for a successful remote postdoc by Burgio, Kevin R, MacKenzie, Caitlin McDonough, Borrelle, Stephanie B, Ernest, S K Morgan, Gill, Jacquelyn L, Ingeman, Kurt E, Teffer, Amy, White, Ethan P

“…Postdocs are a critical transition for early-career researchers. This transient period, between finishing a PhD and finding a permanent position, is when…”
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Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing by Saarinen, Juha J., Boyer, Alison G., Brown, James H., Costa, Daniel P., Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Evans, Alistair R., Fortelius, Mikael, Gittleman, John L., Hamilton, Marcus J., Harding, Larisa E., Lintulaakso, Kari, Lyons, S. Kathleen, Okie, Jordan G., Sibly, Richard M., Stephens, Patrick R., Theodor, Jessica, Uhen, Mark D., Smith, Felisa A.

“…There is accumulating evidence that macroevolutionary patterns of mammal evolution during the Cenozoic follow similar trajectories on different continents…”
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Temporal changes in species composition affect a ubiquitous species’ use of habitat patches by Bledsoe, Ellen K., Ernest, S. K. Morgan

“…Across landscapes, shifts in species composition often co-occur with shifts in structural or abiotic habitat features, making it difficult to disentangle the…”
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Complex Species Interactions and the Dynamics of Ecological Systems: Long-Term Experiments by Brown, James H., Whitham, Thomas G., S. K. Morgan Ernest, Gehring, Catherine A.

“…Studies that combine experimental manipulations with long-term data collection reveal elaborate interactions among species that affect the structure and…”
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