Phenology in adult and larval Lepidoptera from structured and unstructured surveys across eastern North America

GJ Di Cecco, MW Belitz, RJ Cooper… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are an essential link in trophic networks of forest
ecosystems, as they serve as herbivores of vegetation and a food source for many …

Analyzing a phenological anomaly in Yucca of the southwestern United States

L Brenskelle, V Barve, LC Majure, RP Guralnick, D Li - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Yucca in the American desert Southwest typically flowers in early spring, but a well-
documented anomalous bloom event occurred during an unusually cold and wet late fall …

Opportunistically collected photographs can be used to estimate large-scale phenological trends

SD Taylor, RP Guralnick - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Premise Research on large-scale patterns of phenology have utilized multiple sources of
data to analyze the timing of events such as flowering, fruiting, and leaf out. In-situ …

Crowd-sourced observations of a polyphagous moth reveal evidence of allochronic speciation varying along a latitudinal gradient

EN Black, JD Blair, KRL Van der Burg, KE Marshall - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Allochronic speciation, where reproductive isolation between populations of a species is
facilitated by a difference in reproductive timing, depends on abiotic factors such as …

Practice makes the expert: The importance of training volunteers in the generation of phenological data from photographs of biodiversity observation platforms

J Salomé-Díaz, J Golubov, O Díaz-Segura… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Phenology studies the time at which events in the life cycle of a species occur sand how they
are related to environmental cues. Patterns of change in phenology at different scales can …

Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

RD Stewart, N Bard, M van der Bank, J Davies - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Phenology, the timing of recurring life history events, is strongly linked to climate. Shifts in
phenology have important implications for trophic interactions, ecosystem functioning and …

A revision of the genus Ima Tindale (Mantodea: Nanomantidae: Fulciniinae) with the description of a new genus.

MG Connors, P Yeeles, L Lach, DCF Rentz - Zootaxa, 2023 - europepmc.org
Ima fusca is one of a number of unusual and infrequently collected Australian mantises
about which relatively little is known. Long considered a single species, morphological …

Emphasis on quality in iNaturalist plant collections enhances learning and research utility

MC McNair, CM Sexton, M Zenoble - Journal of College Science …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Following the switch to remote online teaching in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the
plant taxonomy course at the University of Georgia (UGA) switched to iNaturalist for the …

[图书][B] Insects in a Changing World: Life History Traits and Thermal Niche Condition Responses to Climate and Urbanization

MW Belitz - 2023 - search.proquest.com
One of the most pressing challenges for modern ecologists is determining how species are
responding to anthropogenic change. Identifying life history traits that predict how species …

THE TRUE REDWOOD SORREL: REINSTATEMENT OF OXALIS SMALLIANA (OXALIDACEAE) AS A SPECIES SEPARATE FROM OXALIS OREGANA

C Brinegar - Madroño, 2023 - BioOne
Abstract The name Oxalis oregana Nutt. is universally accepted for Redwood Sorrel despite
a long history of attempted revisions. One of its many current synonyms, O. smalliana R …