macroEEB

Publications

2025

Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space
Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Tara M. Smiley, Pascal O. Title, Adam M. Fudickar, Alex E. Jahn, Jennifer A. Lau
Global Change Biology  ·  01 Apr 2025  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.70167
Adaptive radiation, taxon murk , and the reality of early burst speciation: an example from Australia s scincid lizards
Adaptive radiation, ‘taxon murk’, and the reality of early burst speciation: an example from Australia’s scincid lizards
Sonal Singhal, Ivan Prates, Huateng Huang, Maggie R Grundler, Alan R Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Pascal O Title, Stephen C Donnellan, Craig Moritz, Daniel L Rabosky
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society  ·  01 Jan 2025  ·  doi:10.1093/evolinnean/kzaf006

2024

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes
The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes
Pascal O. Title, Sonal Singhal, Michael C. Grundler, Gabriel C. Costa, R. Alexander Pyron, …, Daniel O. Mesquita, Eric R. Pianka, Stephen A. Smith, Laurie J. Vitt, Daniel L. Rabosky
Science  ·  23 Feb 2024  ·  doi:10.1126/science.adh2449
Data Repo

2022

Deep ecomorphological and genetic divergence in Steller s Jays i Cyanocitta stelleri i , Aves: Corvidae
Deep ecomorphological and genetic divergence in Steller's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri, Aves: Corvidae)
Carla Cicero, Nicholas A. Mason, Zheng Oong, Pascal O. Title, Melissa E. Morales, Kevin A. Feldheim, Michelle S. Koo, Rauri C. K. Bowie
Ecology and Evolution  ·  30 Nov 2022  ·  doi:10.1002/ece3.9517
scp EcoPhyloMapper scp : An scp r scp package for integrating geographical ranges, phylogeny and morphology
EcoPhyloMapper: An r package for integrating geographical ranges, phylogeny and morphology
Pascal O. Title, Donald L. Swiderski, Miriam L. Zelditch
Methods in Ecology and Evolution  ·  25 Jun 2022  ·  doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13914

2021

What fosters the success of a transdisciplinary environmental research institute Reflections from an interdisciplinary research cohort
What fosters the success of a transdisciplinary environmental research institute? Reflections from an interdisciplinary research cohort
Matthew Houser, Abigail Sullivan, Tara Smiley, Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Elizabeth Grennan Browning, Adam Fudickar, Pascal Title, Jason Bertram, Maria Whiteman
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene  ·  01 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.1525/elementa.2020.00132

2020

Multi dimensional biodiversity hotspots and the future of taxonomic, ecological and phylogenetic diversity: A case study of North American rodents
Multi‐dimensional biodiversity hotspots and the future of taxonomic, ecological and phylogenetic diversity: A case study of North American rodents
Tara M. Smiley, Pascal O. Title, Miriam L. Zelditch, Rebecca C. Terry
Global Ecology and Biogeography  ·  10 Jan 2020  ·  doi:10.1111/geb.13050

2019

Tip rates, phylogenies and diversification: What are we estimating, and how good are the estimates
Tip rates, phylogenies and diversification: What are we estimating, and how good are the estimates?
Pascal O. Title, Daniel L. Rabosky
Methods in Ecology and Evolution  ·  11 Feb 2019  ·  doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13153
MEE blog post
featured in MEE virtual issue
Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest
Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest
R. von May, E. Biggi, H. Cárdenas, M.I. Diaz, C. Alarcón, …, P.O. Title, M.R. Grundler, M.C. Grundler, A.R.D. Rabosky, D.L. Rabosky
Amphibian & Reptile Conservation  ·  01 Jan 2019  ·  [no id info]
University of Michigan Press Release

2018

Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation A Comparative Test across Australia s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation
Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation
Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, Daniel L. Rabosky
The American Naturalist  ·  01 Oct 2018  ·  doi:10.1086/699515
An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes
An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes
Daniel L. Rabosky, Jonathan Chang, Pascal O. Title, Peter F. Cowman, Lauren Sallan, …, Kristin Kaschner, Cristina Garilao, Thomas J. Near, Marta Coll, Michael E. Alfaro
Nature  ·  01 Jul 2018  ·  doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0273-1

2017

Genetic diversity is largely unpredictable but scales with museum occurrences in a species-rich clade of Australian lizards
Genetic diversity is largely unpredictable but scales with museum occurrences in a species-rich clade of Australian lizards
Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, Iris Holmes, Daniel L. Rabosky
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences  ·  03 May 2017  ·  doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2588
ENVIREM: an expanded set of bioclimatic and topographic variables increases flexibility and improves performance of ecological niche modeling
ENVIREM: an expanded set of bioclimatic and topographic variables increases flexibility and improves performance of ecological niche modeling
Pascal O. Title, Jordan B. Bemmels
Ecography  ·  04 Apr 2017  ·  doi:10.1111/ecog.02880

2016

Do Macrophylogenies Yield Stable Macroevolutionary Inferences An Example from Squamate Reptiles
Do Macrophylogenies Yield Stable Macroevolutionary Inferences? An Example from Squamate Reptiles
Pascal O. Title, Daniel L. Rabosky
Systematic Biology  ·  07 Nov 2016  ·  doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw102
Tests of species specific models reveal the importance of drought in postglacial range shifts of a Mediterranean climate tree: insights from integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modelling and scp ABC scp model selection
Tests of species‐specific models reveal the importance of drought in postglacial range shifts of a Mediterranean‐climate tree: insights from integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modelling andABCmodel selection
Jordan B. Bemmels, Pascal O. Title, Joaquín Ortego, L. Lacey Knowles
Molecular Ecology  ·  12 Sep 2016  ·  doi:10.1111/mec.13804
Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes
Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes
Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Christian L. Cox, Daniel L. Rabosky, Pascal O. Title, Iris A. Holmes, Anat Feldman, Jimmy A. McGuire
Nature Communications  ·  05 May 2016  ·  doi:10.1038/ncomms11484

2015

Conservation genomics reveals multiple evolutionary units within Bell s Vireo Vireo bellii
Conservation genomics reveals multiple evolutionary units within Bell’s Vireo (Vireo bellii)
Luke B. Klicka, Barbara E. Kus, Pascal O. Title, Kevin J. Burns
Conservation Genetics  ·  25 Nov 2015  ·  doi:10.1007/s10592-015-0796-z
Minimal effects of latitude on present-day speciation rates in New World birds
Minimal effects of latitude on present-day speciation rates in New World birds
Daniel L. Rabosky, Pascal O. Title, Huateng Huang
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences  ·  22 Jun 2015  ·  doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2889
Rates of climatic niche evolution are correlated with species richness in a large and ecologically diverse radiation of songbirds
Rates of climatic niche evolution are correlated with species richness in a large and ecologically diverse radiation of songbirds
Pascal O. Title, Kevin J. Burns
Ecology Letters  ·  23 Mar 2015  ·  doi:10.1111/ele.12422

2014

Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers Passeriformes: Thraupidae , the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds
Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds
Kevin J. Burns, Allison J. Shultz, Pascal O. Title, Nicholas A. Mason, F. Keith Barker, John Klicka, Scott M. Lanyon, Irby J. Lovette
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution  ·  01 Jun 2014  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006
scp BAMM scp tools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees
BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees
Daniel L. Rabosky, Michael Grundler, Carlos Anderson, Pascal Title, Jeff J. Shi, Joseph W. Brown, Huateng Huang, Joanna G. Larson
Methods in Ecology and Evolution  ·  10 May 2014  ·  doi:10.1111/2041-210x.12199
Genetic variation among western populations of the Horned Lark i Eremophila alpestris i indicates recent colonization of the Channel Islands off southern California, mainland-bound dispersal, and postglacial range shifts
Genetic variation among western populations of the Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) indicates recent colonization of the Channel Islands off southern California, mainland-bound dispersal, and postglacial range shifts
Nicholas A. Mason, Pascal O. Title, Carla Cicero, Kevin J Burns, Rauri C. K. Bowie
The Auk  ·  01 Apr 2014  ·  doi:10.1642/auk-13-181.1