C. N. Meynard

Functional trade-offs: exploring the temporal response of field margin plant communities to climate change and agricultural practices

The paper analyzes how climate change and agricultural practices affect plant communities in field margins, finding increased thermophilic species and functional trade-offs between stress tolerance and agricultural disturbance.

Agricultural drivers of field margin plant communities are scale dependent

This study assesses how agricultural practices affect field margin plant communities at different spatial scales across France, finding scale-dependent impacts of climate, crop diversity, and management practices.

A young age of subspecific divergence in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria inferred by ABC Random Forest

The paper uses ABC-RF to estimate the timing of divergence in Schistocerca gregaria, finding recent divergence around 2.6 Ky, supported by southern colonization from northern founders.

Without quality presence-absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance

The paper shows that TSS can be misleading in species distribution models when presence-absence data are lacking, and recommends similarity/F-measures instead.