Biodiversity Science:

Macrosystems Ecology across the
National Ecological Observatory Network

This website highlights collaborative research focused on understanding and predicting changes in biodiversity and community ecology across space and time with ecological observation networks spanning continental to global scales. Current projects focus on explaining biotic and abiotic drivers of biodiversity from local to continental scales across the United States National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

Funding

This research is funded by the National Science Foundation; Awards to P.L. Zarnetske (Michigan State University); S. Record (Bryn Mawr College); Ben Baiser (University of Florida); Angela Strecker (Western Washington University).

Collaborative Research: MRA: Local- to continental-scale drivers of biodiversity across the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) [2019-2024]

Collaborative Research: EAGER-NEON: Using Intraspecific Trait Variation to Understand Processes Structuring Continental-scale Biodiversity Patterns [2015-2018]

For details, see our Research page.

Research Highlights

2021 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting virtual presentations

Members of the team are presenting research at the 2021 Ecological Society of America meeting

Phoebe Zarnetske

Jul 23, 2021 1 min read research

2021 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting virtual presentations

OStats Package available

Macrosystems Biodiversity team members Quentin Read, Arya Yue, Isadora Fluck, Benjamin Baiser, John M. Grady, Phoebe L. Zarnetske and Sydne Record have written a new R package ‘Ostats’, with version 0.1.0 now available via github.

Quentin Read

Last updated on Jul 26, 2021 1 min read research

Presentation on MSB to the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies

Phoebe Zarnetske gave a seminar to the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies titled ‘Explaining Patterns of Biodiversity Across Spatial Scales with Traits, Geodiversity, and Disturbance.’

Phoebe Zarnetske

Apr 1, 2021 1 min read research

Presentation on MSB to the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies

2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting virtual presentations

Four members of the team are presenting research at the 2020 Ecological Society of America meeting

Phoebe Zarnetske

Jul 27, 2020 1 min read research

2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting virtual presentations

Recent Publications

John M. Grady, Brian S. Maitner, Ara S. Winter, Kristin Kaschner, Derek P. Tittensor, Sydne Record, Felisa A. Smith, Adam M. Wilson, Anthony I. Dell, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Helen J. Wearing, Brian Alfaro, James H. Brown (2019). Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators. Science.

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Sydne Record, Angela Strecker, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Lydia Beaudrot, Phoebe Zarnetske, Jonathan Belmaker, Beth Gerstner (2018). Does scale matter? A systematic review of incorporating biological realism when predicting changes in species distributions. PLOS ONE.

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Quentin D. Read, John M. Grady, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Sydne Record, Benjamin Baiser, Jonathan Belmaker, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Angela Strecker, Lydia Beaudrot, Katherine M. Thibault (2018). Among-species overlap in rodent body size distributions predicts species richness along a temperature gradient. Ecography.

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Team

Principal Investigators

Phoebe Zarnetske

Associate Professor

Spatial & Community Ecology, Macrosystems Biology & Biodiversity, Biotic Interactions & Climate Change Ecology

Angela Strecker

Associate Professor

Complex socio-ecological systems, Anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems, Influences on biodiversity and ecosystem function at different spatial scales