W. D. Pearse

BUMBLE BEE RESPONSES TO CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPES: INVESTIGATING HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS AND SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES ACROSS GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

This study examines how climate and land use affect bumble bee occupancy, richness, and assemblages across U.S. agricultural regions, identifying temperature and crop associations.

Variable responses of individual species to tropical forest degradation

The study examines how individual species respond to tropical forest degradation, finding significant variation in responses across populations and surveys.

How to define, use, and interpret Pagel's lambda (lambda) in ecology and evolution

The paper clarifies the correct interpretation and use of Pagel's lambda in ecology and evolution, highlighting its limitations and common misconceptions.

Variation in near-surface soil temperature drives plant assemblage insurance potential

The paper examines how variation in near-surface soil temperature influences plant assemblage insurance potential by analyzing functional diversity and life history strategies across different slopes.

Consistent, linear phenological shifts across a century of observations in South Korea

The paper shows consistent phenological shifts in seven woody plant species in South Korea over a century, with historical patterns accurately predicting recent changes despite extreme weather.

Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage

This paper introduces EvoHeritage, a new phylogenetic biodiversity metric that accounts for both accumulation and attrition of evolutionary features, showing it better predicts community productivity and identifies living fossils than traditional metrics.

EDGE2: advancing the prioritisation of threatened evolutionary history for conservation action

The paper introduces EDGE2, an updated metric for prioritizing species with threatened evolutionary history, showing it prioritizes species with fewer close relatives more than the original EDGE method.

Predicting catchment suitability for biodiversity at national scales

This paper links water quality and land use data to predict catchment suitability for threatened and invasive freshwater species, showing how management actions can be prioritized for biodiversity conservation.

The abiotic and biotic environment together predict plant, mammal, and bird diversity and turnover across the United States

The study predicts plant, mammal, and bird diversity and turnover in the U.S. by combining abiotic and biotic factors using NEON data.

Disorder or a new order: how climate change affects phenological variability

The paper analyzes how climate change affects phenological variability across species, finding that earlier-season species in colder regions show reduced variability in phenology over time.

AREAdata: a worldwide climate dataset averaged across spatial units at different scales through time

AREAdata provides pre-processed global climate data averaged across spatial units, enabling easier use by non-specialists in environmental and epidemiological research.

Pronounced genetic separation among varieties of the Primula cusickiana species complex, a Great Basin endemic

The paper uses RADseq to analyze genetic structure in Primula cusickiana varieties, finding pronounced separation between populations and suggesting current varietal classifications are inaccurate.

Strong trait correlation and phylogenetic signal in North American ground beetle (Carabidae) morphology

The paper examines morphological trait correlations and phylogenetic signal in North American ground beetles, finding strong phylogenetic constraints and trait correlations.

Fractal triads efficiently sample ecological diversity and processes across spatial scales

The paper introduces a fractal sampling design to efficiently detect ecological diversity patterns across spatial scales in northeast Utah plant communities.

A novel framework for modeling the evolution of cross-scale ecological assembly

This paper introduces a framework combining phylogenetic generalized linear mixed modeling and earth observation networks to study cross-scale ecological assembly drivers and their implications for conservation.

Cryptic diversity in the model fern genus Ceratopteris (Pteridaceae)

The paper identifies cryptic species within the fern genus Ceratopteris using RADseq, finding a new putative species within C. thalictroides.

The realised velocity of climate change reveals remarkable idiosyncrasy of species’ distributional shifts

The paper analyzes species distributional shifts in response to climate change, finding that species track climate but not fast enough, with highly variable responses across taxa.

Phylogenetic diversity efficiently and accurately prioritizes the conservation of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities

The paper evaluates phylogenetic diversity as a tool for assessing freshwater ecosystem degradation and shows it performs as well as taxonomic metrics without requiring baseline data.

Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species’ responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal

The paper assesses bee species' responses to agricultural expansion, intensification, and urbanization, finding strong phylogenetic signal in sensitivity to expansion but not intensification or urbanization.

What we (don’t) know about global plant diversity

The paper assesses gaps in global plant biodiversity data across genetic, geographic, and trait databases, finding significant underrepresentation of certain taxa and regions.

The Effect of Phylogenetic Uncertainty and Imputation on EDGE Scores

This study assesses how phylogenetic uncertainty and imputation affect EDGE scores by simulating missing species and evaluating score robustness and accuracy.