Publications

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2024

  • 58. Siciliano-Martina, L., McGuire, J. L., Hurtado-Materon, M. A., Short, R. A., Lauer, D. A., Schap, J. A.,Müller, J., Manthi, F. K., Head, J. J., & Lawing, A. M. 2024. Ecometrics demonstrates that the functional dental traits of carnivoran communities are filtered by climate. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e70214.
  • 57. Schap, Julia A., Jenny L. McGuire, A. Michelle Lawing, Fredrick K. Manthi, and Rachel A. Short. 2024. Ecometric models of small mammal hypsodonty can estimate paleoprecipitation across eastern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2024): 112181.
  • 56. Jacisin III, John J., A. Michelle Lawing. 2024. Fossil snakes of the Penny Creek Local Fauna from Webster County, Nebraska, USA, and the first record of snakes from the Early Clarendonian (12.5-12 Ma) of North America. Palaeontologia Electronica 27(1):a2 https://doi.org/10.26879/1220

2023

  • 55.   Lauer, Daniel A., A. Michelle Lawing, Rachel A. Short, Fredrick K. Manthi, Johannes Müller, Jason J. Head, Jenny L. McGuire. 2023. Disruption of trait-environment relationships in African megafauna coincident with hominin emergence. Nature Communications 14: 4016, 1-15.
  • 54.   McGuire, Jenny M., A. Michelle Lawing, Sandra Diaz, Nils Chr. Stenseth. 2023. The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 120 (7) e2201950120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220195012
  • 53.   Short, Rachel, A., Jenny M. McGuire, P. David Polly, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2023. Trophically integrated ecometric models highlight areas of functional disruption in mammal communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 120 (7) e2201947120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201947120

2022

  • 52.   Balk, Meghan A., John Deck, Kitty F. Emery, Ramona L. Walls, Dana Reuter, Raphael LaFrance, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Paul Barrett, Jessica Blois, Arianne Boileau, Laura Brenskelle, Nicole R. Cannarozzi, J. Alberto Cruz, Liliana M. Dávalos, U. Noé, Prasiddhi Gyawali, Maggie M. Hantak, Samantha Hopkins, Brooks Kohli, Jessica N. King, Michelle S. Koo, A. Michelle Lawing, Helena Machado, Samantha M. McCrane, Bryan McLean, Michèle E Morgan, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Denne Reed, Elizabeth J. Reitz, Neeka Sewnath, Nathan S. Upham, Amelia Villaseñor, Laurel Yohe, Edward B. Davis, Robert P. Guralnick. 2022. A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data. Iscience 25: 105101.
  • 51.   Siciliano-Martina, Leila, Margot Michaud, Brian P. Tanis, Emily L. Scicluna, A. Michelle Lawing. 2022. Endocranial volume increases across captive generations in the endangered Mexican wolf. Scientific Reports 12: 1-8.
  • 50.   Reinke, Beth A., Hugo Cayuela, Fredric J Janzen, Jean-François Lemaître, Jean-Michel Gaillard, A. Michelle Lawing, John B Iverson, Ditte G Christiansen, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Francis L Rose, Nicola Nelson, Susan Keall, Alain J Crivelli, Theodoros Nazirides, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, Klaus Henle, Emiliano Mori, Gaëtan Guiller, Rebecca Homan, Anthony Olivier, Erin Muths, Blake R Hossack, Xavier Bonnet, David S Pilliod, Marieke Lettink, Tony Whitaker, Benedikt R Schmidt, Michael G Gardner, Marc Cheylan, Françoise Poitevin, Ana Golubović, Ljiljana Tomović, Dragan Arsovski, Richard A Griffiths, Jan W Arntzen, Jean-Pierre Baron, Jean-François Le Galliard, Thomas Tully, Luca Luiselli, Massimo Capula, Lorenzo Rugiero, Rebecca McCaffery, Lisa A Eby, Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Frank Mazzotti, David Pearson, Brad A Lambert, David M Green, Nathalie Jreidini, Claudio Angelini, Graham Pyke, Jean-Marc Thirion, Pierre Joly, Jean-Paul Léna, Anton D Tucker, Col Limpus, Pauline Priol, Aurélien Besnard, Pauline Bernard, Kristin Stanford, Richard King, Justin Garwood, Jaime Bosch, Franco L Souza, Jaime Bertoluci, Shirley Famelli, Kurt Grossenbacher, Omar Lenzi, Kathleen Matthews, Sylvain Boitaud, Deanna H Olson, Tim S Jessop, Graeme R Gillespie, Jean Clobert, Murielle Richard, Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez, Gary M Fellers, Patrick M Kleeman, Brian J Halstead, Evan H Campbell Grant, Phillip G Byrne, Thierry Frétey, Bernard Le Garff, Pauline Levionnois, John C Maerz, Julian Pichenot, Kurtuluş Olgun, Nazan Üzüm, Aziz Avcı, Claude Miaud, Johan Elmberg, Gregory P Brown, Richard Shine, Nathan F Bendik, Lisa O’donnell, Courtney L Davis, Michael J Lannoo, Rochelle M Stiles, Robert M Cox, Aaron M Reedy, Daniel A Warner, Eric Bonnaire, Kristine Grayson, Roberto Ramos-Targarona, Eyup Baskale, David Muñoz, John Measey, F Andre de Villiers, Will Selman, Victor Ronget, Anne M Bronikowski, David AW Miller. 2022. Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity. Science 376: 1459-1466.
  • 49.   Walkup, Danielle K., A. Michelle Lawing, Toby J. Hibbitts, Wade A. Ryberg. 2022. Biogeographic consequences of shifting climate in Sistrurus tergeminus (western massasauga). Ecology and Evolution 12: e8599.
  • 48.   Preisser, Whitney C., Adrian A. Castellanos, John M. Kinsella, Ronald Vargas, Eugenio Gonzalez, Jesús A. Fernández, Norman O. Dronen, A. Michelle Lawing, and Jessica E. Light. 2022. Taxonomic scale, but not community organization, impacts observed latitudinal gradients of parasite diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49: 617-629. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14322
  • 47.   Meik, Jesse M., Jessica A. Watson, A. Michelle Lawing, and Jeffrey W. Streicher. An evaluation of parapatric distributions among ecologically similar rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus) in North American warm deserts. 2022. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 135: 541-557, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab174
  • 46. Siciliano‐Martina, Leila, Jessica E. Light, David G. Riley, A. Michelle Lawing. 2022. One of these wolves is not like the other: morphological effects and conservation implications of captivity in Mexican wolves. Animal Conservation, 25(1): 77-90.

2021

  • 45.   Lawing, A. Michelle, McCoy, Michael, Reinke, Beth A., Sarkar, Susanta K., Smith, Felisa A. and Wright, Derek. 2021. A framework for investigating Rules of Life by establishing Zones of Influence. Integrative and Comparative Biology p.icab169.
  • 44.   Zarestky, Jill, Lauren Vilen*, Rhonda Struminger, Rachel Short*, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2021. Adult Education at Biological Field Stations: Building Capacity for STEM Learning. Adult Education Quarterly 07417136211044728.
  • 43.   Struminger, Rhonda, Rachel A. Short, Jill Zarestky, Lauren Vilen*, A. Michelle Lawing. 2021. Biological Field Stations Promote Science Literacy through Outreach. BioScience 71: 953-963.
  • 42.   Short, Rachel A. and A. Michelle Lawing. Geography of artiodactyl locomotor morphology as an environmental predictor. Diversity and Distributions 27: 1818-1831.
  • 41.   Lawing, A. Michelle. 2021. The geography of phylogenetic paleoecology: integrating data and methods to better understand response of species and communities to climate change. Paleobiology 47: 178-197.
  • 40.   Bowers, Brandon C., Danielle K. Walkup, Toby J. Hibbitts, Paul S. Crump, Wade A. Ryberg, A. Michelle Lawing, and Roel R. Lopez. 2021. Should Istay or should Igo? Spatial ecology of western chicken turtles (Deirochelys reticularia miaria). Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16: 594-611.
  • 39.   Light, Jessica E., Leila Siciliano-Martina*, Emma G. Dohlanik, Grace Vielleux, David J. Hafner, A. Michelle Lawing, and Ira F. Greenbaum. 2021. Morphological differentiation of Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus in East Texas. Therya 12: 369-387.
  • 38.   Siciliano-Martina*, Leila, Jessica E. Light, A. Michelle Lawing. 2021. Changes in canid cranial morphology induced by captivity and conservation implications (Mammalia: Carnivora). Biological Conservation 257: 109143.
  • 37.   Brooke*, Chase T., Rogers, William E., Lafon, Charles W. and Lawing, A. Michelle. 2021. Annual precipitation drives fire occurrence across sub-humid and semi-arid ecological gradients. Frontiers of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG49497
  • 36.   Rivera, Julio A., Heather N. Rich, A. Michelle Lawing, A., Michael S. Rosenberg, and Emília P. Martins. 2021. Occurrence data uncover patterns of allopatric divergence and interspecies interactions in the evolutionary history of Sceloporus lizards. Ecology and Evolution 11: 2796-2813.
  • 35.   Siciliano-Martina*, Leila, Jessica E. Light, A. Michelle Lawing. 2021. Cranial morphology of captive mammals: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Zoology 18: 1-13.
  • 34.   Lawing, A. Michelle, Jessica L. Blois, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Simon J. Goring, Yue Wang, Jenny L. McGuire. 2021. Occupancy models reveal regional differences in detectability and improve relative abundance estimations in fossil pollen assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews 253: 106747.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106747
  • 33.   Short*, Rachel A., Katherine Pinson**, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2021. Comparison of environmental inference approaches for ecometric analyses: Using hypsodonty to estimate precipitation. Ecology and Evolution 11: 587-598. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7081
  • 32.   Chyn, Kristina, Te-En Lin, David Wilkinson, James Tracy, A. Michelle Lawing, and Lee Fitzgerald. 2021. The intersection of wildlife and roads: fine-scale roadkill risk models for herpetofaunal guilds and species of conservation concern in Taiwan. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 139 – 164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02083-6

2020

  • 31.   Short*, Rachel A., Rhonda Struminger, Jill Zarestky, James Pippin**, Minna Wong**, Lauren Vilen*, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2020. Spatial inequalities leave micropolitan areas underserved by informal STEM learning institutions. Science Advances 6:eabb3819. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb3819
  • 30.   Rivera, Julio, A. Michelle Lawing, and Emilia Martins. 2020. Reconstructing historical shifts in suitable habitat of Sceloporus lineages using phylogenetic niche modeling. Journal of Biogeography 47: 2117 – 2128.
  • 29.   Meik, Jesse M., Lawing, A. Michelle and Watson*, Jessica A. 2020. Use of scalation landmarks in geometric morphometrics of squamate reptiles: a comment on homology. Zootaxa 4816: 397 – 400.

2019

  • 28.   Oksanen*, Otto, Indre Zliobate, Juha Saarinen, A. Michelle Lawing, and Mikael Fortelius. 2019. A Humboldtian approach to life and climate of the geological past: estimating palaeotemperature from dental traits of mammalian communities. Journal of Biogeography 46: 1760 – 1776.
  • 27.   Castellanos*, Adrian A., Jerry W. Huntley*, Gary Voelker, A. Michelle Lawing. 2019. Environmental filtering improves ecological niche models across multiple scales. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 481 – 492.
  • 26.   Casola, Claudio and A. Michelle Lawing. 2019. Nonrandom evolution of gene families. American Journal of Botany 106: 14 – 17.
  • 25.   Hibbits, Toby, Wade A. Ryberg, Johanna A. Harvey, Gary Voelker, A. Michelle Lawing, Connor S. Adams, Dalton B. Neuharth, Drew E. Dittmer, C. Michael Duran, Brad D. Wolaver, Jon Paul Pierre, Benjamin J. Labay, and Travis J. Laduc. 2019. Phylogenetic structure of Holbrookia lacerata (Cope 1880)(Squamata: Phrynosomatidae):one species or two? Zootaxa 4619: 139 – 154.

2018

  • 24.   Struminger, Rhonda, Jill Zarestky, Rachel Short*, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2018. Informal STEM learning at biological field stations. Bioscience 68: 969 – 978. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy108
  • 23.   Tracy*, James L., Antonio Trabucco, A. Michelle Lawing, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Maria Tchakerian, Gail M. Drus, Robert N. Coulson. 2018. Random Subset Feature Selection for Ecological Niche Models of Wildfire Activity in Western North America. Ecological Modelling 383: 52 – 68.
  • 22.   Fitzgerald*, Maegan, Robert Coulson, A. Michelle Lawing, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, and Kathelijne Koops. 2018. Modeling Habitat Suitability for Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)in the Greater Nimba Landscape, Guinea, West Africa. Primates 59: 361 – 375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-018-0657-8
  • 21.   Oakley*, Jenny W., A. Michelle Lawing, George Guillen, and Frances Gelwick. 2018. Defining Ecologically, Geographically, and Politically Coherent Boundaries for the Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Region: Facilitating Ecosystem-Based Management. Ocean and Coastal Management 154: 1 – 7.
  • 20.   Zhou*, Tan, Sorin C. Popescu, A. Michelle Lawing, Marian Eriksson, Bogdan Strambu, Paul C. Bürknerd. 2018. Bayesian and machine learning methods: a comparison for tree species classification with waveform LiDAR data. Remote Sensing 10: 39.

2017

  • 19.   Barnosky, Anthony D, Elizabeth A Hadly, Patrick Gonzalez, Jason Head, P David Polly, A Michelle Lawing, Jussi T Eronen, David D Ackerly, Ken Alex, Eric Biber, Jessica Blois, Justin Brashares, Gerardo Ceballos, Edward Davis, Gregory P Dietl, Rodolfo Dirzo, Holly Doremus, Mikael Fortelius, Harry W Greene, Jessica Hellmann, Thomas Hickler, Stephen T Jackson, Melissa Kemp, Paul L Koch, Claire Kremen, Emily L Lindsey, Cindy Looy, Charles R Marshall, Chase Mendenhall, Andreas Mulch, Alexis M Mychajliw, Carsten Nowak, Uma Ramakrishnan, Jan Schnitzler, Kashish Das Shrestha, Katherine Solari, Lynn Stegner, M Allison Stegner, Nils Chr Stenseth, Marvalee H Wake, Zhibin Zhang. 2017. Merging paleontology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems. Science 355: 6325, eaah4787. doi: 10.1126/science.aah4787.
  • 18.   Polly, P. David, Jesualdo Fuentes-Gonzalez*, A. Michelle Lawing, Allison K. Bormet*, and Robert G. Dundas. 2017. Clade sorting has a greater effect than local adaptation on ecometric patterns in Carnivora. Evolutionary Ecology Research 18: 61 – 95.
  • 17.   Lawing, A. Michelleŧ, Jussi Eronenŧ, Jessica Bloisŧ, Catherine Graham, and P. David Polly. 2017. Community functional trait composition at the continental scale: the effects of non-ecological processes. Ecography 40: 651 – 663.

2016

  • 16.   Lawing, A. Michelle, P. David Polly, Diana K. Hews, and Emília P. Martins. 2016. Miocene Climate and Paleophylogeographic Models: A Deep Time Perspective on the Climatic Niche Evolution and Diversification of Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus). American Naturalist 188: 133 – 148.
  • 15.   Polly, P. David, A. Michelle Lawing, Jussi T. Eronen, and Jan Schnitzler. 2016. Processes of ecometric patterning: modelling functional traits, environments, and clade dynamics in deep time. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118: 39 – 63.

2015

  • 14.   Meik, Jesse M. ŧ, Jeffrey W. Streicherŧ, A. Michelle Lawingŧ, Oscar Flores-Villela, and Matthew K. Fujita. 2015. Limitations of climate-based modeling for inferring species boundaries: Insights from the speckled rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii) complex. PLoS ONE 10: e0131435.
  • 13.   Tapaltsyan, Vagan, Jussi Eronen, A. Michelle Lawing, Amnon Sharir, Christine Janis, Jukka Jernvall, and Ophir D. Klein. 2015. Continuously growing rodent molars result from a predictable quantitative evolutionary change over 50 million years. Cell Reports 11: 673 – 680.

2014

  • 12.   Lawing, A. Michelle and Nicholas Matzke. 2014. Conservation paleobiology needs phylogenetic methods. Ecography 37: 1109 – 1122.

2013

  • 11.   Rödder, Dennisŧ, A. Michelle Lawingŧ, Morris Flecks, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Johannes Dambach, Jan O. Engler, Jan Christian Habel, Timo Hartmann, David Hörnes, Flora Ihlow, Kathrin Schidelko, Darius Stiels, and P. David Polly. 2013. Evaluating the significance of paleophylogeographic species distribution models in reconstructing Quaternary range-shifts of Nearctic Chelonians. PLoS ONE 8:e72855.
  • 10.   Polly, P. David, A. Michelle Lawing, Anne-Claire Fabre, and Anjali Goswami. 2013. Phylogenetic principal components analysis and geometric morphometrics. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 24: 33 – 41. doi:10.4404/hystrix-24.1-9.

2012

  • 9.     Lawing, A. Michelle, Jesse M. Meik, and P. David Polly. 2012. Climate and competition shape species borders: A study of Panamint (Crotalus stephensi) and Speckled (Crotalus mitchellii) Rattlesnakes. ISRN Zoology 528745: 1 – 6.
  • 8.     Meik, Jesse M., Sarah Schaack, Matthew J. Ingrasci, A. Michelle Lawing, Kirk Setser, Estrella Mociño-Deloya, Oscar Flores-Villela. 2012. Notes on activity, body size variation, and diet in insular speckled rattlesnakes from the western Sea of Cortés, Mexico. Herpetological Review 43: 556 – 560.
  • 7.    Meik, Jesse M., Kirk Setser, Estrella Monciño-Deloya, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2012. Sexual differences in head form and diet in a population of the Mexican lance-headed rattlesnake (Crotalus polystictus). Biol J Linnaean Society 106: 633 – 640.

2011

  • 6.    Lawing, A. Michelle and P. David Polly. 2011. Pleistocene climate and phylogeny predict 21st century changes in rattlesnake distributions. PLoS ONE 6: e28554.

2010 – 2007

  • 5.    Lawing, A. Michelle and P. David Polly. 2010. Geometric morphometrics: Recent applications to the study of evolution and development. Journal of Zoology 280: 1 – 7.
  • 4.    Meik, Jesse M., A. Michelle Lawing, and André Pires-daSilva. 2010. Body size evolution in insular speckled rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus mitchellii). PLoS ONE 5: e9524.
  • 3.    Lawing, A. Michelle, Jesse M. Meik, and Walter Schargel. 2008. Coding meristic characters for phylogenetic analysis: a comparison of step-matrix gap-weighting and generalized frequency coding. Systematic Biology 57: 167 – 173.
  • 2.    Meik, Jesse M. and A. Michelle Lawing. 2008. Elevation gradients and lizard assemblage structure in the Bonneville Basin, western USA. J of Arid Environments 72: 1193 – 1201.
  • 1.    Casola, Claudio, A. Michelle Lawing, Ester Betrán and Cédric Feschotte. 2007. PIF-like transposons are common in Drosophila and have been repeatedly domesticated to generate new host genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1872 – 1888.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

  • 4.     Vermillion*, Wesley A., P. David Polly, Jason J. Head, Jussi T. Eronen, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2018. Ecometrics: A trait-based approach to paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. pp. 373 – 394. In D.A. Croft, S.W. Simpson, and D.F. Su (eds.), Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities. Springer (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Dordrecht.
  • 3.     Ryberg, Wade A. and A. Michelle Lawing. 2018. Genetic consequences and management implications of climate change for the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). pp. 123 – 153. In S. E. Henke and C. B. Eversole (eds.), American Alligators: Habitats, Behaviors, and Threats. Nova Science Publishers.
  • 2.     Meik, Jesse M. and A. Michelle Lawing. 2017. Considerations and pitfalls in the spatial analysis of water quality data associated with hydraulic fracturing. pp. 227 – 256. In K. A. Schug and Z. L. Hildenbrand (eds.), Advanced in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection. Elsevier (Environmental Issues Concerning Hydraulic Fracturing Series Vol. 1), Academic Press.
  • 1.     Lawing, A. Michelle, Jason J. Head, and P. David Polly. 2012. The ecology of morphology: the ecometrics of locomotion and macroenvironment in North American snakes. Pp. 117 – 146 in J. Louys (ed.), Palaeontology in Ecology and Conservation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg.

Other Publications (Editor-reviewed)

  • 4.     Struminger, Rhonda., Zarestky, Jill, Short, Rachel, Vilen, Lauren, and Lawing, A. Michelle. 2021. Informal STEM learning at biological field stations. Informalscience.org News & Views, Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education.
  • 3.     Zarestky, Jill, Rhonda Struminger, Jeff Rodriguez*, Rachel Short*, and A. Michelle Lawing. 2018. Perspectives on informal learning: Cross-disciplinary concepts and a new venue for adult education. Adult Education Research Conference. Victoria, BC, Canada.
  • 2.    Lawing, A. Michelle and Jesse M. Meik. 2006. Geographic distribution. Plestiodon septentrionalis. Herpetological Review. 37: 241.
  • 1.    Meik, Jesse M. and A. Michelle Lawing. 2006. Geographic distribution. Chelydra serpentina. Herpetological Review. 37: 104.