A Townsend Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 226900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Townsend Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Townsend |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0243-2379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
To isolate or not to isolate
To reduce the burden of the disease on the society, it is necessary to incentivize such altruistic behavior by infected individuals as voluntary self-isolation
Compatible ecological niche signals between biological and archaeological datasets for late‐surviving Neandertals
As primary and secondary evidence of Neandertal occurrence during the Pre-H4 show high levels of niche similarity and identity, combining the two types of occurrence data to create larger samples for niche analyses is justified without the concern that different environmental signals could complicate future research
Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian
Recent advances in the climate change biology literature
Climate change biology is seeing a wave of new contributions, which are reviewed herein. Contributions treat shifts in phenology and distribution, and both document past and forecast future effects. However, many of the current wave of contributions are observational and correlational, and few are experimental in nature, and too often a conceptual framework in which to contextualize the results is lacking. An additional gap is the lack of effecti…
Joint Effects of Marine Intrusion and Climate Change on the Mexican Avifauna
Changing climates are affecting biodiversity and natural systems, causing extinctions, range shifts, and phenological shifts. Efforts to forecast the spatial distribution and magnitude of these effects, however, have focused largely on direct effects of changing climates on species' distributional potential; recent work has considered secondary effects of warming climates via rising sea levels. Here, we present a first integration of the two dime…
Mapping Environmental Dimensions of Dengue Fever Transmission Risk in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia
Dengue fever (DF) is endemic in Medellín, the second largest Colombian city, and surrounding municipalities. We used DF case and satellite environmental data to investigate conditions associated with suitable areas for DF occurrence in 2008 in three municipalities (Bello, Medellín and Itagüí). We develop spatially stratified tests of ecological niche models, and found generally good predictive ability, with all model tests yielding results signif…
Monitoring Biodiversity Loss with Primary Species-occurrence Data
Development of effective indicators is indispensable for countries and societies to monitor effects of their actions on biodiversity, as is recognized in decision VI/26 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Good indicators would ideally be scalable, at least for the different scales that characterize biodiversity patterns and process. Existing indicators are mostly global in scope, and often based on secondary information, such as classifica…
Risk Mapping of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Distribution and Spread
The rapid emergence and spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza begs effective and accurate mapping of current knowledge and future risk of infection.Methods for such mapping, however, are rudimentary, and few good examples exist for use as templates for risk-mapping efforts.We review the transmission cycle of avian influenza viruses, and identify points on which risk-mapping can focus.We provide examples from the literature and from our…
Original Article
Aim Techniques that predict species potential distributions by combining observed occurrence records with environmental variables show much potential for application across a range of biogeographical analyses. Some of the most promising applications relate to species for which occurrence records are scarce, due to cryptic habits, locally restricted distributions or low sampling effort. However, the minimum sample sizes required to yield useful pr…
Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data
Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occurrence records in museums and herbaria, yet little effective guidance on how best to use this information in the context of numerous approaches for modelling distributions. To meet this need, we compared 16 modelling methods over 226 species from 6 regions of the world, c…
Global Invasive Potential of 10 Parasitic Witchweeds and Related Orobanchaceae
The plant family Orobanchaceae includes many parasitic weeds that are also impressive invaders and aggressive crop pests with several specialized features (e.g. microscopic seeds, parasitic habits). Although they have provoked several large-scale eradication and control efforts, no global evaluation of their invasive potential is as yet available. We use tools from ecological niche modeling in combination with occurrence records from herbarium sp…
Extinction risk from climate change
Climate Change and Forest Disturbances
Studies of the effects of climate change on forests have focused on the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture changes and to disperse, but they have ignored the effects of disturbances caused by climate change (e.g., Ojima et al. 1991). Yet modeling studies indicate the importance of climate effects on disturbance regimes (He et al. 1999). Local, regional, and global changes in temperature and precipitation can influence the occ…
Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian
Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
Monitoring Biodiversity Loss with Primary Species-occurrence Data
Development of effective indicators is indispensable for countries and societies to monitor effects of their actions on biodiversity, as is recognized in decision VI/26 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Good indicators would ideally be scalable, at least for the different scales that characterize biodiversity patterns and process. Existing indicators are mostly global in scope, and often based on secondary information, such as classifica…
Risk Mapping of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Distribution and Spread
The rapid emergence and spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza begs effective and accurate mapping of current knowledge and future risk of infection.Methods for such mapping, however, are rudimentary, and few good examples exist for use as templates for risk-mapping efforts.We review the transmission cycle of avian influenza viruses, and identify points on which risk-mapping can focus.We provide examples from the literature and from our…
Climate Change and Forest Disturbances
Studies of the effects of climate change on forests have focused on the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture changes and to disperse, but they have ignored the effects of disturbances caused by climate change (e.g., Ojima et al. 1991). Yet modeling studies indicate the importance of climate effects on disturbance regimes (He et al. 1999). Local, regional, and global changes in temperature and precipitation can influence the occ…
Extinction risk from climate change
Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data
Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occurrence records in museums and herbaria, yet little effective guidance on how best to use this information in the context of numerous approaches for modelling distributions. To meet this need, we compared 16 modelling methods over 226 species from 6 regions of the world, c…
Global Invasive Potential of 10 Parasitic Witchweeds and Related Orobanchaceae
The plant family Orobanchaceae includes many parasitic weeds that are also impressive invaders and aggressive crop pests with several specialized features (e.g. microscopic seeds, parasitic habits). Although they have provoked several large-scale eradication and control efforts, no global evaluation of their invasive potential is as yet available. We use tools from ecological niche modeling in combination with occurrence records from herbarium sp…
Original Article
Aim Techniques that predict species potential distributions by combining observed occurrence records with environmental variables show much potential for application across a range of biogeographical analyses. Some of the most promising applications relate to species for which occurrence records are scarce, due to cryptic habits, locally restricted distributions or low sampling effort. However, the minimum sample sizes required to yield useful pr…
Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
Risk Mapping of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Distribution and Spread
The rapid emergence and spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza begs effective and accurate mapping of current knowledge and future risk of infection.Methods for such mapping, however, are rudimentary, and few good examples exist for use as templates for risk-mapping efforts.We review the transmission cycle of avian influenza viruses, and identify points on which risk-mapping can focus.We provide examples from the literature and from our…
Mapping Environmental Dimensions of Dengue Fever Transmission Risk in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia
Dengue fever (DF) is endemic in Medellín, the second largest Colombian city, and surrounding municipalities. We used DF case and satellite environmental data to investigate conditions associated with suitable areas for DF occurrence in 2008 in three municipalities (Bello, Medellín and Itagüí). We develop spatially stratified tests of ecological niche models, and found generally good predictive ability, with all model tests yielding results signif…
Monitoring Biodiversity Loss with Primary Species-occurrence Data
Development of effective indicators is indispensable for countries and societies to monitor effects of their actions on biodiversity, as is recognized in decision VI/26 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Good indicators would ideally be scalable, at least for the different scales that characterize biodiversity patterns and process. Existing indicators are mostly global in scope, and often based on secondary information, such as classifica…
Recent advances in the climate change biology literature
Climate change biology is seeing a wave of new contributions, which are reviewed herein. Contributions treat shifts in phenology and distribution, and both document past and forecast future effects. However, many of the current wave of contributions are observational and correlational, and few are experimental in nature, and too often a conceptual framework in which to contextualize the results is lacking. An additional gap is the lack of effecti…
Joint Effects of Marine Intrusion and Climate Change on the Mexican Avifauna
Changing climates are affecting biodiversity and natural systems, causing extinctions, range shifts, and phenological shifts. Efforts to forecast the spatial distribution and magnitude of these effects, however, have focused largely on direct effects of changing climates on species' distributional potential; recent work has considered secondary effects of warming climates via rising sea levels. Here, we present a first integration of the two dime…
Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian
Compatible ecological niche signals between biological and archaeological datasets for late‐surviving Neandertals
As primary and secondary evidence of Neandertal occurrence during the Pre-H4 show high levels of niche similarity and identity, combining the two types of occurrence data to create larger samples for niche analyses is justified without the concern that different environmental signals could complicate future research
To isolate or not to isolate
To reduce the burden of the disease on the society, it is necessary to incentivize such altruistic behavior by infected individuals as voluntary self-isolation
Biology (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Ecological niche (4 works) · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 works) · Environmental niche modelling (4 works)