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2026

  1. Publication New lab publication: “Cities alter the latitudinal diversity gradient of birds in North America” is published in Nature Cities. Read the paper and the accompanying Springer Nature Community blog.

  2. Publication New lab publication: “Human Impacts, Climate, and Trait-Mediated Responses in Contemporary Mammal Distributions” is published in Journal of Biogeography. Read the paper.

  3. Fellowship Congratulations to Luis José Aguirre-López on receiving a fellowship supporting his doctoral research in biotic interactions under human impacts. Read more.

  4. Project NSF funds a collaborative project with Joyce Ho, and Adam Smith on “Biodiversity On Demand (BOND): A Web Platform for Discovering, Comparing, and Integrating Biodiversity Databases”.

2025

  1. Publication The work led by Yuyang Xie, “Using large language models to address the bottleneck of georeferencing natural history collections”, was published in Nature Plants. Read UNC report. Read the paper.