Cory Merow

For species with 20 or fewer occurrence records, 24 of 31 species distribution models had AUC distributions not significantly different from Maxnet's; vote-counting ensembles give upper and lower range bounds.

The paper quantifies metal contamination exposure across Amazon biodiversity, finding 66% of species are exposed to mining-associated metals.

The paper introduces GNRS, a tool that standardizes and indexes political division names to improve georeferencing accuracy in species distribution modeling.