William D. Pearse

This study identifies acoustic patterns in bird songs and human music that are shared across species and linked to production and cognitive mechanisms.

This paper systematically maps monitoring and evaluation practices in rewilding case studies, identifying challenges in data standardization and collaboration to improve evidence-based rewilding.

This study assesses how biodiversity enhances agroecosystem function using a global dataset, finding that biodiversity enhancement generally improves or maintains multiple agroecosystem functions.

The paper examines how species traits, phylogeny, and introduction status affect β-diversity contributions across different spatial scales using plant community data.

This study uses automated methods to analyze museum butterfly specimens and finds directional trends in wing shape over 105 years, suggesting environmental factors like temperature change have shaped butterfly morphology.

This paper compares two conservation metrics, EDGE and FUSE, and introduces a new metric EFUSE that combines evolutionary and functional distinctiveness to improve conservation prioritization.

This paper reviews biodiversity monitoring methods over 22 years, finding increasing use of scalable techniques but persistent spatial and taxonomic biases.

YOLOv8 detection with SORT event grouping and grid-search tuning quantifies visually distinct behaviours from video across 5 case studies, reaching f1-scores of 0.62 to 0.94.

The paper compares alpha and beta diversity of plant assemblages between a rewilded landscape and an agricultural baseline to assess rewilding success.

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

The paper screens bat samples for coronaviruses, identifies novel strains, and assesses their potential to infect humans.

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.

The paper identifies rodent clades with unusual ecological structures and finds slower body mass evolution rates in these clades, suggesting a link between ecological structure and evolutionary history.