Brian C. Weeks

The paper shows that greater intraspecific morphological variation in bulbuls predicts broader ecological niches and larger geographic ranges.

This paper uses large language models to extract species interaction data from citizen science comments, expanding ecological data coverage and enabling new ecological research.

The paper examines how changes in bird species abundance over 50 years in North America have increased predator-prey interaction potentials, driven mainly by predator abundance increases and human land use changes.

The paper introduces bifrost, an R package for detecting shifts in multivariate trait evolution across phylogenetic trees, using a greedy search and information-criterion weights.

The paper shows that hyper-dominant bird species drive unexpected functional shifts in North American bird communities over time.

The paper uses computer vision to measure skeletal traits in bird species, creating a dataset of 12 skeletal elements from 14,419 individuals across 2,057 species, and imputes missing data using phylogenetic relationships.

This study uses genome data from 35 bird species to show that long-distance migration promotes genetic diversity and spatial genetic structure due to philopatry, not dispersal.