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Urban biodiversity provides critical ecosystem services and is a key component to environmentally and socially sustainable cities. However, biodiversity varies greatly within and among cities, leading to human communities with changing and unequal experiences with nature. The “luxury effect,” a hypothesis that predicts a positive correlation between wealth, typically measured by per capita income, and species richness may be o...
Ecological diversification of the Australian Coptotermes termites and the evolution of mound buildingNARA Subscribed
Aim The Australian Coptotermes (Family: Rhinotermitidae) are a small monophyletic group of termites, some of which build mounds. In this study, we construct predicted distributions based on environmental data (niche models) for all Australian species of Coptotermes to test whether specific environmental factors have contributed to the evolution of mound‐building behaviour and whether the degree of niche similarity and degree o...
A spatial mark–resight model augmented with telemetry dataNARA Subscribed
Abundance and population density are fundamental pieces of information for population ecology and species conservation, but they are difficult to estimate for rare and elusive species. Mark–resight models are popular for estimating population abundance because they are less invasive and expensive than traditional mark–recapture. However, density estimation using mark–resight is difficult because the area sampled must be explic...
Unmodeled observation error induces bias when inferring patterns and dynamics of species occurrence via aural detectionsNARA Subscribed
The recent surge in the development and application of species occurrence models has been associated with an acknowledgment among ecologists that species are detected imperfectly due to observation error. Standard models now allow unbiased estimation of occupancy probability when false negative detections occur, but this is conditional on no false positive detections and sufficient incorporation of explanatory variables for th...
Evaluating Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a Population Source for the Wood ThrushNARA Subscribed
The prevailing fragmentation paradigm predicts that large, intact forests are acting as population sources for Neotropical migrant landbirds. We used the Wood Thrush ( Hylocichla mustelina ) as a model for evaluating the role Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the largest national park in the eastern United States) may play in maintaining regional songbird populations. We estimated the annual productivity of Wood Thrushes in...
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