Geographic gradients in a functional trait: Drivers of body size and size diversity of ground invertebrate communities

M Kaspari, KE Marshall, MD Weiser, CD Siler… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is a key functional trait governing how an animal community transforms resources
and conditions into performance, abundance, and fitness. Here we use the National …

Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks

B Dantzer, KE Mabry, JR Bernhardt… - Integrative …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Human activities are rapidly changing ecosystems around the world. These changes have
widespread implications for the preservation of biodiversity, agricultural productivity …

[HTML][HTML] The US National Ecological Observatory Network and the Global Biodiversity Framework: national research infrastructure with a global reach

KM Thibault, CM Laney, KM Yule, NM Franz… - Journal of Ecology and …, 2023 - e-jecoenv.org
The US National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is
a continental-scale program intended to provide open data, samples, and infrastructure to …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Integrative Organismal Biology

SM Gartner, O Larouche, KM Evans, MW Westneat - 2023 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The concept of modularity is fundamental to understanding the evolvability of morphological
structures and is considered a central framework for the exploration of functionally and …