Publications

preprints:

• Duarte, G et al. (including X Feng) Optimizing global conservation, restoration, and agriculture for people and nature. Global Change Biology (in review). preprint: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3043578/v1

2024

• 48. Feng, X, Peterson, AT, Aguirre-Lopez, LJ, Burger, JR, Chen, X, Papeş, M. (2024) Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene. Biological Reviews. DOI: doi: 10.1111/brv.13077.

• 47. Park, DS, Huynh, KM, Feng, X. (2024) Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.13839.

• 46. Newman, EA, Feng, X, Onland, JD, Walker, KR, Young, S, Smith, K, Townsend, J, Damian, D, Ernst, K. (2024) Defining the roles of local precipitation and anthropogenic water sources in driving the abundance of Aedes aegypti, an emerging disease vector in urban, arid landscapes. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-50346-3.

• 45. Huang, TK, Feng, X, et al. (2024) Potential for spatial coexistence of a transboundary migratory species and wind energy development.  Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66490-3

• 44. Jeon, JY, Shin, Y, Mularo, AJ, Feng, X, DeWoody, JA. (2024) The integration of whole-genome resequencing and ecological niche modeling to conserve profiles of local adaptation. Diversity and Distributions, DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13847.

• 43. Zhang, Z, et al. (including X Feng) (2024) Incorporating physiological knowledge into correlative species distribution models minimizes bias introduced by the choice of calibration area. Marine Life Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-024-00226-0

• 42. Maitner, B, et al. (including X Feng) (2024) Code sharing increases citations, but remains uncommon. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70030

• 41. Field, JP, et al. (including X Feng) (2024) Soil amendment mitigates mortality from drought and heat waves in dryland tree juveniles. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1215051

2023

• 40. Feng, X, et al. (2023) GridDER: grid detection and evaluation in R. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102391 

• 39. Feng, X. (2023) A test of species’ mobility hypothesis in ecological niche modeling. Journal of Biogeography, 50:1955–1966.

• 38. Feng, X, Swann, AS et al. (2023) Distance decay and directional diffusion of ecoclimate teleconnections driven by regional-scale tree die-off. Environmental Research Letters. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acff0d

• 37. Chen, X, Liang, Y, Feng, X. (2023) Influence of model complexity, training collinearity, collinearity shift, predictor novelty and their interactions on ecological forecasting. Global Ecology and Biogeography . https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13793

• 36. Park, DS, Feng, X et al. (2023) The colonial legacy of herbaria. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1059–1068

• 35. Merow, C, et al. (including X Feng) (2023) Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 626–627.

2022

• 34. Feng, X., Enquist, B. J., Park, D. S., Boyle, B., Breshears, D. D., Gallagher, R., … López-Hoffman, L. (2022) A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13497

• 33. Boyle, BL, et al. (including X Feng) (2022) Geographic name resolution service: a tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268162.

• 32. Park,DS, Y Xie, HT Thammavong, R Tulaiha, X Feng. (2022) Artificial Hotspot Occurrence Inventory (AHOI). Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14543

• 31. Pillet,M, B Goettsch, C Merow, B Maitner, X Feng, PR Roehrdanz, BJ Enquist. (2022) Elevated extinction risk of cacti under climate change. Nature Plants, 8, 366–372. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01130-0

• 30. Peterson, AT, M Aiello-Lammens, G Amatulli, R Anderson, M Cobos, JA Diniz-Filho, L Escobar, X Feng, J Franklin, L Gadelha, D Georges, M Guéguen, T Gueta, K Ingenloff, S Jarvie, L Jiménez, D Karger, J Kass, M Kearney, R Loyola, F Machado-Stredel, E Martínez-Meyer, C Merow, ML Mondelli, S Mortara, R Muscarella, C Myers, B Naimi, D Noesgaard, I Ondo, L Osorio-Olvera, H Owens, R Pearson, G Pinilla-Buitrago, A Sánchez-Tapia, E Saupe, W Thuiller, S Varela, D Warren, J Wieczorek, K Yates, G Zhu, G Zuquim, and D Zurell. (2022). ENM2020: a free online course and set of resources on modeling species’ niches and distributions”. Biodiversity Informatics. DOI: 10.17161/bi.v17i.15016.

• 29. Boyle,BL, BS Maitner, GGC Barbosa, RK Sajja, X Feng, C Merow, EA Newman, DS Park, PR Roehrdanz, BJ Enquist. (2022) Geographic name resolution service: a tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling. bioRxiv. Preprint DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.25.489424

2021

• 28. Feng, X, C Merow, B. Maitner, DS Park, P Roehrdanz, Z Liu, EA Newman, B Boyle, A Lien, JR Burger, MM Pires, PM Brando, MB Bush, CNH McMichael, DM Neves, L Hannah, DD Breshears, T Evans, JR Soto, K Ernst, BJ Enquist. (2021) How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03876-7

• 27. Feng, X., Qiao, H. (2021) Accounting for dispersal improves the understanding of species abundance patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13412

• 26. Jung, M, A Arnell, X de Lamo, S García-Rangel, M Lewis, J Mark, C Merow, L Miles, I Ondo, S Pironon, C Ravilious, M Rivers, D Schepashenko, O Tallowin, A van Soesbergen, R Govaerts, BL Boyle, BJ Enquist, X Feng, RV Gallagher, B Maitner, S Meiri, M Mulligan, G Ofer, J Hanson, W Jetz, M Di Marco, J McGowan, SD Rinnan, JD Sachs, M Lesiv, V Adams, SC Andrew, JR Burger, L Hannah, PA Marquet, JK McCarthy, N Morueta-Holme, EA Newman, DS Park, PR Roehrdanz, JC Svenning, C Violle, JJ Wieringa, G Wynne, S Fritz, BBN Strassburg, M Obersteiner, V Kapos, N Burgess, G Schmidt-Traub, P Visconti. (2021) Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7

• 25. Breshears, DD, JB Fontaine, KX Ruthrof, JP Field, X Feng, JR Burger, DJ J.  Law, J Kala, GEStJ Hardy. (2021) Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves. New Phytologist. DOI:10.1111/nph.17348

2020

• 24. Liang, M, X Feng, ES Gornish. (2020). Dry-season rainfall pulses mediate plant community dynamics in a long-term semi-arid rangeland. Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13780.

• 23. Field, JP, DD Breshears, DJ Law, JB Bradford, X Feng, CD Allen. (2020). Forest Management Under Megadrought: Urgent Needs at Finer Scale and Higher Intensity. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.502669.

• 22. Park, DS, X Feng, B Maitner, K Ernst, B Enquist. Darwin’s naturalization conundrum can be explained by spatial scale. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1918100117.

• 21. Zurell, D, J Franklin, PJ Bouchet, CF Dormann, J Elith, G Fandos, X Feng, G Guillera-Arroita6, A Guisan, C König, JJ Lahoz-Monfort, PJ Leitão, DS Park, AT Peterson, G Rapacciuolo, D Schmatz, B Schröder, JM Serra-Diaz, W Thuiller, KL Yates, NE Zimmermann, C Merow. (2020). A standard protocol for describing species distribution models. Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04960. 

• 20. Feng, X, H Qiao, BJ Enquist. (2020). Doubling demands in programming skills call for the education of ecoinformatics. Frontier in Ecology and the Environment. DOI:10.1002/fee.2179.

• 19. Li, Y, PB Reich, N Shrestha, B Schmid, X Feng, T Lyu, BS Maitner, X Xu, Y Li, D Zou, ZH Tan, X Su, Z Tang, Q Guo, X Feng, BJ Enquist, Z Wang. (2020). Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13503.

• 18. Hannah, L, PR Roehrdanz, PA Marquet, BJ Enquist, G Midgley, W Foden, JC Lovett, R Corlett, D Corcoran, S Butchart, B Boyle, X Feng, BS Maitner, J Fajardo, BJ McGill1, C Merow, N Morueta-Holme, EA Newman, DS Park, JC Svenning. (2020) 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%. Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05166.

2019

• 17. Gallagher, RV, DS Falster, BS Maitner, R Salguero-Gómez,V Vandvik, W Pearse, FD Schneider, J Kattge, J Poelen, JS Madin, MJ Ankenbrand, C Penone, X Feng, et al. (2019). Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4, 294–303.

• 16. Enquist, BJ, X Feng, B Boyle, B Maitner, et al. (2019). The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances, 5: eaaz0414. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414

• 15.  Feng, X, Y Liang, B Gallardo, M Papeş. (2019). Integrating physiology and ecological niche modeling through Bayesian analysis: a case study of zebra mussel’s upper thermal limit. Ecography, DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04627

• 14.  Feng, X, DS Park, C Walker, AT Peterson, C Merow, M Papes. (2019). A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models. Nature Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0972-5

• 13.  Feng, X, DS Park, R Pandey, Y Liang and M Papeş. (2019). Collinearity in ecological niche modeling: confusions and challenges. Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5555

• 12.  Wang, Z, Y Li, X Su, S Tao, X Feng, Q Wang, X Xu, Y Liu, ST Michaletz, N Shrestha, M Larjavaara, BJ Enquist. (2019). Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia and its relation to primary productivity, Journal of Plant Ecology, DOI:10.1093/jpe/rtz025

2018

• 11.  Herrin, BH, MJ Beall, X Feng, M Papeş and SE Little. (2018). Canine and human infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in the New York City metropolitan area. Parasites & Vectors, 11: 187-187.

• 10.  Qiao, H, X Feng*, LE Escobar, AT Peterson, J Soberon, G Zhu and M Papeş. (2018). An evaluation of transferability of ecological niche models. Ecography, DOI: 10.1111/ecog.03986.

2017

• 9.  Feng, X, M Castro, E Linde and M Papeş. (2017). Armadillo Mapper: a case study of an online application to update potential distribution estimates. Tropical Conservation Science, 10: 1-5.

• 8.  Feng, X, MC Castro, K McBee and M Papeş. (2017). Hiding in a cool climatic niche in the Tropics? An assessment of the ecological biogeography of hairy long-nosed armadillos (Dasypus pilosus). Tropical Conservation Science, 10: 1-13.

• 7.  Feng, X and M Papeş. (2017). Can incomplete knowledge of species’ physiology facilitate ecological niche modelling? A case study with virtual species. Diversity and Distributions, 23: 1157–1168.

• 6.  Feng, X and M Papeş. (2017). Physiological limits in an ecological niche modeling framework: a case study of water temperature and salinity constraints of freshwater bivalves invasive in USA. Ecological Modelling, 346: 48-57.

• 5.  Jog, SK, JT Bried, X Feng, AR Dzialowski, M Papeş, CA Davis. (2017). Can land use indicate wetland floristic quality and taxonomic distinctness? Ecological Indicators, 78: 331-339.

2016

• 4.  Bried, JT, AM Siepielski, D Dvorett, SK Jog, MA Patten, X Feng, CA Davis. (2016). Species residency status affects model selection and hypothesis testing in freshwater community ecology. Freshwater Biology, 61: 1568-1579.

• 3.  Feng, X, TCS Anacleto, M Papeş. (2016). Climatic similarity of extant and extinct Dasypus armadillos. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 24: 193-206.

2015

• 2.  Feng, X, C Lin, H Qiao, L Ji. (2015). Assessment of climatically suitable area for Syrmaticus reevesii under climate change. Endangered Species Research, 28: 19-31.

• 1.  Feng, X and M Papeş. (2015). Ecological niche modelling confirms potential north-east range expansion of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the USA. Journal of Biogeography, 42: 803-807.