Vaughn Michael Shirey

Winners and Losers Among European Arthropods over the Last Half Century of Global Change

The paper analyzes 50 years of European arthropod occurrence data to show heterogeneous responses to global change, with climate variables and agricultural intensification driving shifts in distribution.

The urban tree of life: synthesizing relationships between body size and urban affinity

The paper analyzes urban affinity across 30,000 species, finding that body size correlates with urban tolerance, but patterns vary across taxa and families.

Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence

This study identifies the genetic basis of silver iridescence polymorphism in Mormon Fritillary butterflies, linking it to the optix gene and showing evidence of selection and introgression.