Publications

2021

Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. “Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data.” Remote Sensing of Environment 252 (2021): 112122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112122

Andrew, S. C., K. Mokany, D. S. Falster, E. Wenk, I. J. Wright, C. Merow, V. Adams, R. V. Gallagher. 2021. Functional diversity of the Australian flora: strong links to species richness and climate. Journal of Vegetation Science 32: e13018. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13018

Charney, N. D., S. Record, B. Gerstner, C. Merow, P. Zarnetske, B. J. Enquist. 2021. A test of species distribution model transferability across environmental and geographic space for 108 western North American tree species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9:689295. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.689295

Choe, H., Keeley, A.T.H., Cameron, D.R., Gogol-Prokurat, M., Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P.R., Schloss, C.A., Thorne, J.H., 2021. The influence of model frameworks in spatial planning of regional climate-adaptive connectivity for conservation planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 214, 104169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104169

Davidow, M., C. Merow, J. Che-Castaldo, T. Schafer, M. Duker, D. Corcoran, D. Matteson. Clustering Future Scenarios Based on Predicted Range Maps. Bioarxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07408

Emmanouil, S., Langousis, A., Nikolopoulos, E.I. and Anagnostou, E.N., 2021. An ERA‐5 derived CONUS‐wide high‐resolution precipitation dataset based on a refined parametric statistical downscaling framework. Water Resources Research, p.e2020WR029548. * The full CONUS-wide downscaled precipitation dataset is freely available at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8kprr4xnq.

Falco N, Enquist BJ, Wainwright H, Wainwright H, Anagnostou E, Anagnostou E, Longo M, Longo M, Shen X, Shen X. Rapid assimilation and analysis of a suit of remote sensing data for predicting extreme events and their impact on ecological-human systems. AI4ESP; 2021 Apr 15. https://www.ai4esp.org/files/AI4ESP1040_Falco_Nicola.pdf

Feng, X ., C. Merow, Z. Liu, D. S. Park, P. Roehrdanz, B. Maitner, E. A. Newman, B. Boyle, A. Lien, J. R. Burger, M. M. Pires, P. M. Brando, M. B. Bush, C. N. H. McMichael, D. M. Neves, L. Hannah, D. D. Breshears, T. Evans, T. Nikolopoulous, J. R. Soto, K. Ernst, B. J. Enquist. 2021. How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity. Nature. In Press.

Frazier, A.E., Honzák, M., Hudson, C., Perlin, R., Tohtsonie, A., Gaddis, K.D., de Sousa, C., Larsen, T.H., Junker, J., Nyandwi, S. and Trgovac, A.B., Connectivity and conservation of Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) habitat in Liberia. 2021. Diversity and Distributions. (Open Access) * Journal cover image * News coverage by NASA, Conservation International, and ASU.

Frye, H. A., M. E. Aiello-Lammens, D. Euston-Brown, C. S. Jones, H. K. Mollmann, C. Merow, J. A. Slingsby, H. van der Merwe, A. M. Wilson, J. A. Silander Jr. 2021. Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional, and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper-diverse biogeographic region. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30: 1404-1417. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13306

Gallagher, Rachael V., et al. “Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life.” Nature ecology & evolution 4.3 (2020): 294-303. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6

Jung, M., A. Arnell, X. de Lamo, S. García-Rangel, M. Lewis, J. Mark, C. Merow, L. Miles, I. Ondo, S. Pironon, C.Ravilious, M. Rivers, D. Schepashenko, O. Tallowin, A. van Soesbergen, R. Govaerts, et al., B. L. Boyle, B. J. Enquist, X. Feng, R.V. Gallagher, B. S. Maitner, S. Meiri, M. Mulligan, G.Ofer, J. O. Hanson, W. Jetz, M. Di Marco, J. McGowan, D. S. Rinnan, J. D. Sachs, M. Lesiv, V. Adams, S. C. Andrew, J. R. Burger, Lee Hannah, P. A. Marquet, J. K. McCarthy, N. Morueta-Holme, E. A. Newman, D. S. Park, P. R. Roehrdanz, J. C. Svenning, C. Violle, J. J. Wieringa, G. Wynne, S. Fritz, B. B. N. Strassburg, M. Obersteiner, V. Kapos, N. Burgess, G. Schmidt-Traub, P. Visconti. Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water. 2021. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01528.

Kedia, A.C., Kapos, B., Liao, S., Draper, J., Eddinger, J., Updike, C. and Frazier, A.E. An Integrated Spectral–Structural Workflow for Invasive Vegetation Mapping in an Arid Region Using Drones. 2021 Drones, 5(1), p.19. (Open Access) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.13270 * News coverage by ABC15 Phoenix: Drones and AI hunting down invasive plants at Salt River

Noon, M., Goldstein, A., Ledzema, J.C., Roehrdanz, P.R., Cook-Patton, S., Spawn, S., Wright, T.W., Gonzales-Roglich, M., Hole, D.H., Rockstrom, J., Turner. W. 2021. Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems. Accepted, in press. Nature Sustainability.

Owens, H., C. Merow, B. S. Maitner, J. M. Kass, V. Barve and R. P. Guralnick 2021. occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets. Ecography. 44: 1–8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05618

Rehenuma Lazin, Xinyi Shen, Emmanouil Anagnostou, “Predicting flood damaged crop lands using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)”, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 16 (5) pp. 054011 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abeba0.

Urban, M. C., C. Merow, J. Wegrzyn, B. S. Maitner, D. Corcoran. 2021. How to publish at pandemic speed. Bioscience. XX: 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab084

Wessels, C., C. Merow, Trisos, C. 2021. Climate change risk to southern African native wild food plants. Regional Environmental Change. 21: 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01755-5

Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Jack Eggleston, and Albert Kettner “A High-Resolution Flood Inundation Archive (2016–the Present) from Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery over CONUS”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0319.1.

2020

Dobson, A.P., Pimm, S.L., Hannah, L., Kaufman, L., Ahumada, J.A., Ando, A.W., Bernstein, A., Busch, J., Daszak, P., Engelmann, J., Kinnaird, M.F., Li, B.V., Loch-Temzelides, T., Lovejoy, T., Nowak, K., Roehrdanz, P.R., Vale, M.M., 2020. Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abc3189

Fajardo, J., Corcoran, D., Roehrdanz, P.R., Hannah, L., Marquet, P.A., 2020. GCM compareR: A web application to assess differences and assist in the selection of general circulation models for climate change research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11, 656–663. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13360

Hannah, L., P. R. Roehrdanz, P. A. Marquet, B. J. Enquist, G. Midgley, W. Foden, J. C. Lovett, R. Corlett, D. Corcoran, S. Butchart, B. Boyle, X. Feng, B. Maitner, J. Fajardo, B. J. McGill, C. Merow, N. Morueta-Holme, E. A. Newman, D. S. Park, J. Svenning. 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%. 2020. Ecography. 43: 943-953. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05166 * Ecography Editor’s Choice * Subject of Ecography’s first ever podcast * Video Abstract * Covered by Scientific American, Campaign for Nature, and Forests News.

Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P.R., C, K.B.K., Fraser, E.D.G., Donatti, C.I., Saenz, L., Wright, T.M., Hijmans, R.J., Mulligan, M., Berg, A., Soesbergen, A. van, 2020. The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers. PLOS ONE 15, e0228305. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228305

Merow, C., M. Urban. 2020. Seasonality and uncertainty in global COVID-19 growth rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 17: 27456-27464.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008590117 * Covered by the New York Times

Rehenuma Lazin, Xinyi Shen, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Evaluation of the Hyper-Resolution Model-Derived Water Cycle Components over the Upper Blue Nile Basin”, Journal of Hydrology, DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125231

Trisos, C., C. Merow, A. Pigot. The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change. 2020. Nature. 580: 496-501.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2189-9 * Covered by the New York Times and Scientific American * Altmetric score: 2047; Top 5% of coverage in papers scored by Altmetrics

Wainwright, Haruko M., et al. “Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control.” Environmental Research Letters 15.8 (2020): 084018.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8fd0

Zurell, D., J. Franklin, P.J. Bouchet, J.M. Serra-Diaz, C. F. Dormann, J. Elith, G. F. Guzman, X. Feng, G. Guillera-Arroita, A. Guisan, C. König, P. J. Leitão, J. J. Lahoz-Monfort, D. S. Park, A. T. Peterson, G. Rapacciuolo, D. Schmatz, B. Schröder, W. Thuiller, K. L. Yates, N. E. Zimmermann, C. Merow. A standard protocol for describing species distribution models. 2020. Ecography. 43: 1261-1277. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04960 * Ecography Editor’s Choice and Review and synthesis

2019

Enquist, B.J., X. Feng, B.Boyle, B. Maitner, E. A. Newman, P. M. Jørgensen, P. R. Roehrdanz, B. M. Theirs, J. R. Burger , R. Corlett, J. C. Donoghue, W. Foden, J. C. Lovett, P.Marquet, C. Merow, G. Midgley, N. Morueta-Holme, N. J. B. Kraft, D. S. Park, R. K. Peet, M. Pillet, J. M. Serra-Diaz, B. Sandel, M. Schildhauer, I. Šímová, C. Violle, S. Wiser, L. Hannah, J.-C. Svenning, and B. J. McGill. The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. 2019. Science Advances. 5: eaaz0414. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414 * Covered by Mongabay and ZME Science

In review/revision

Araujo D., Marra F., Merow C., Nikolopoulos, E., 2021. Today’s 100-year drought in Australia may become the norm by the end of the century. Environmental Research Letters (under revision).

Carlson, C. J., G. F. Albery, C. Merow, C. H. Trisos, C. M. Zipfel, E. Eskew, K. J. Olival, N. Ross, S. Bansal. Global change will create new viral sharing opportunities in range-shifting mammals. 2020. In review

Chaplin-Kramer, R., Neugarten, R.A., Sharp, R.P., Collins, P.M., Polasky, S., Hole, D., Schuster, R., Strimas-Mackey, M., Mulligan, M., Brandon, C., Diaz, S., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Gorenflo, L., Johnson, J.A., Keys, P.W., Longley-Wood, K., McIntyre, P.B., Noon, M., Pascual, U., Liermann, C.R., Roehrdanz, P.R., Schmidt-Traub, G., Shaw, M.R., Spalding, M., Turner, W.R., Soesbergen, A. van, Watson, R.A., 2021. Global critical natural assets. Submitted to Science. Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.08.361014

Coldrey, K.M, Turpie, J., Midgley, G.F., Scheiter, S., Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P.R., Foden, W.B. 2021. A framework for assessing protected areas’ vulnerability to climate change: How vulnerable are South Africa’s national Parks? In review, Conservation Biology.

Corcoran, D., M. C. Urban, J. Wegrzyn, C. Merow. 2020. Virus evolution affected early COVID-19 spread. In review.

Feng, X., Enquist, B.J., Park, D.S., Boyle, B., Breshears, D.D., Gallagher, R., Lien, A., Newman, E., Burger, J.R., Maitner, B.S., Merow, C., Li, Y., Huynh, K.M.-L., Ernst, K., Baldwin, E., Foden, W., Hannah, L., Jørgensen, P.M., Kraft, N., Lovett, J.C., Marquet, P.A., McGill, B.J., Morueta-Holme, N., Neves, D.M., Nunez-Regueiro, M., Oliveira-Filho, A.T., Peet, R.K., Pillet, M., Roehrdanz, P.R., Sandel, B., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Šímová, I., Svenning, J.-C., Violle, C., Weitemier, T.D., Wiser, S., López-Hoffman, L., 2021. A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Submitted, Global Change Biology. Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/9zt4a

He, K., X. Shen, E. N. Anagnostou, C. Merow, T. Nikolopoulos, R. Gallagher, F. Yang. Predicting wildfire severity based on machine learning: Application on the Australian ecosystem. In review.

Cho-ying Huang, Sandra M. Durán, Kai-ting Hu, N.G. Swenson, B.J. Enquist. Remotely sensed assessment of increasing chronic and episodic drought effects on a Costa Rican tropical dry forest. Ecosphere (In Press)

Danilo M. Neves, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, Cory Merow, Naia Morueta-Holme, Robert K. Peet, Brody Sandel, Jens-Christian Svenning, Susan K. Wiser, Brian J. Enquist, The adaptive challenge of extreme conditions shapes evolutionary diversity of plant assemblages at continental scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (In Press).

Rasheed, Z., Aravamudan, A., Sefidmazgi, A.G., Anagnostopoulos, G.C. and Nikolopoulos, E., 2021. Advancing flood warning procedures in ungauged basins with machine learning. Journal of Hydrology. (under review). Preprint available at https://doi.org/10.31223/X5X03X.

Roehrdanz, P., Hannah, L., Corcoran, D., Corlett, R., Enquist, B., Fajardo, J., Feng, X., Foden, W., Lovett, J., Maitner, B., Marquet, P., Merow, C., Midgley, G., 2021. Strategic Conservation of Global Vertebrates in Response to Climate Change. In revision at One Earth. Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3854499

Schuster, R., Buxton, R., Hanson, J.O., Binley, A.D., Pittman, J., Tulloch,V., La Sorte, F., Roehrdanz, P.R., Verburg, P., Rodewald, A.D., Wilson, S., Possingham, H.P., Bennet, J.R. 2021. Protected areas for biodiversity conservation in an uncertain world. In Revision, Science.

Wieczynski, D., Diaz, S., Duran, S.M., Fyllas, N., Salinas, N., Martin, R., Shenkin, A., Silman, M., Asner, G., Bentley, L.P. and Malhi, Y., 2020. Quantifying productivity at landscape scale using remotely-sensed foliar traits and canopy structure. In review Oikos

Wilson, S., Hsien-Yung Lin, H., Schuster, R., Gómez, C., González, A.M., Botero-Delgadillo, E., Bayly, N.J., BennettJ.R., Rodewald A.D., Roehrdanz P.R., Gutierrez V.R., 2021. Opportunities for the conservation of migratory birds to benefit threatened resident vertebrates in the New World Tropics. In Revision, Journal of Applied Ecology.

In preparation

Liang, M., Gonzalez-Roglich, M., Roehrdanz, P.R., Tabor, K., Silva, J., Fatoyinbo, T., Hansen,M., Duncanson, L. 2021. Quantifying and Assessing Protected Area’s Carbon Sequestration Potential and Ecological Values at Regional-scale Using GEDI. In Prep. Planned submission Sept 2021 to One Earth.

Trisurat, Y., Roehrdanz, P.R., Chitechote, A. 2021. Climate change impacts on ecosystems and composition of floristic regions in Thailand. In prep. Planned submission Sept 2021

Xinyi Shen, Guannan Liang, Amanda Allen and, Xiao Feng “An automated decadal survey of saguaro population using deep learning” AGU 2021 Fall Meeting, New Orleans. (in prep)

Xinyi Shen, Kang He, et al., “Future floods exacerbate fire recovery in New South Wales” (in prep)