Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: the promise of biophysical ecology

NJ Briscoe, SD Morris, PD Mathewson… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

Outstanding challenges in the transferability of ecological models

KL Yates, PJ Bouchet, MJ Caley, K Mengersen… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Predictive models are central to many scientific disciplines and vital for informing
management in a rapidly changing world. However, limited understanding of the accuracy …

Genomics and epidemiology of the P. 1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil

NR Faria, TA Mellan, C Whittaker, IM Claro… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in
Manaus, Brazil, resurged in late 2020 despite previously high levels of infection. Genome …

Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

MC Dietze, A Fox, LM Beck-Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

Model averaging in ecology: A review of Bayesian, information‐theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

CF Dormann, JM Calabrese… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In ecology, the true causal structure for a given problem is often not known, and several
plausible models and thus model predictions exist. It has been claimed that using weighted …

Situating ecology as a big-data science: current advances, challenges, and solutions

SS Farley, A Dawson, SJ Goring, JW Williams - BioScience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

JW Williams, EC Grimm, JL Blois, DF Charles… - Quaternary …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports
interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and …

Perspective: Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change

MA Burford, CC Carey, DP Hamilton, J Huisman… - Harmful Algae, 2020 - Elsevier
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (= cyanoHABs) are an increasing feature of many
waterbodies throughout the world. Many bloom-forming species produce toxins, making …

Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales

EF Zipkin, ER Zylstra, AD Wright… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Data integration is a statistical modeling approach that incorporates multiple data sources
within a unified analytical framework. Macrosystems ecology–the study of ecological …

The AmeriFlux network: A coalition of the willing

KA Novick, JA Biederman, AR Desai, ME Litvak… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
AmeriFlux scientists were early adopters of a network-enabled approach to ecosystem
science that continues to transform the study of land-atmosphere interactions. In the 20 …