E. K. Meineke

Vehicle pollution is associated with elevated insect damage to street trees

This study shows vehicle pollution increases insect damage to street trees, with caterpillars preferring leaves from highway-adjacent trees.

Applying Machine Learning to Investigate Long Term Insect-Plant Interactions Preserved on Digitized Herbarium Specimens

The paper develops machine learning models to automate herbivory data extraction from digitized herbarium specimens, achieving 81.5% accuracy in classifying herbivory types.

Temperature accounts for the biodiversity of a hyperdiverse group of insects in urban Los Angeles

This study shows that temperature, not land cover, primarily drives phorid fly biodiversity in urban Los Angeles, with intermediate temperatures supporting higher abundance and richness.

Herbarium records reveal early flowering in response to warming in the southern hemisphere

This study uses herbarium records to show that Protea species in sub-Saharan Africa flower earlier with increasing temperature, similar to northern temperate species.

The unrealized potential of herbaria in global change biology

This paper highlights the underutilized potential of herbaria for global change biology, emphasizing their value in studying ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change and other biodiversity loss drivers.