Paola Montoya

Biogeographical context mediates land-use impacts on tropical soil multitrophic diversity

The paper examines how biogeographic context influences land-use impacts on soil multitrophic diversity in tropical dry forests, finding region-specific responses to forest-to-pasture conversion.

An Empirical Bayes approach for the study of phenotypic evolution from high-dimensional data

The paper introduces an Empirical Bayes framework for analyzing high-dimensional trait evolution, showing it is faster and more efficient than existing methods.

Explaining the rapid evolution of mammalian meiotic recombination proteins

The paper analyzes evolutionary rates of 100 meiotic recombination proteins across 400 placental mammals, finding that rapid evolution is driven by reduced purifying selection and linked to chromosome pairing proteins in long-lived species.

A probabilistic and phylogenetic principal component analysis for modelling high-dimensional trait evolution

This paper introduces P3CA, a probabilistic and phylogenetic PCA method for high-dimensional trait evolution, showing improved accuracy in parameter estimation and missing data reconstruction.