publications

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2026

  1. BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data
    Brian J Enquist, Brad Boyle, Brian S Maitner, and 8 more authors
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2026
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  2. The Multifaceted Effects of Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors on Ecological Networks
    Luis José Aguirre-López, Allen H Hurlbert, and Xiao Feng
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2026
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  3. Human Impacts, Climate, and Trait-Mediated Responses in Contemporary Mammal Distributions
    Xin Chen, Luis José Aguirre-López, and Xiao Feng
    Journal of Biogeography, 2026
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2025

  1. The next stage of biodiversity informatics: community-driven synthesis and integration of biodiversity databases
    Xiao Feng, Adam B Smith, Brad Boyle, and 8 more authors
    BioScience, 2025
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  2. Keys to the global treeline formation: Thermal limit for its position and moisture for the taxon-specific variation
    Yuyang Xie, Zehao Shen, J Julio Camarero, and 7 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025
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  3. General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally
    Gabriel M Moulatlet, Cory Merow, Brian Maitner, and 8 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025
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  4. Using large language models to address the bottleneck of georeferencing natural history collections
    Yuyang Xie, Daniel S Park, Miranda A Sinnott-Armstrong, and 8 more authors
    Nature Plants, 2025
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2024

  1. Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene
    Xiao Feng, A Townsend Peterson, Luis José Aguirre-López, and 3 more authors
    Biological Reviews, 2024
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  2. Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions
    Daniel S Park, Kimberly M Huynh, and Xiao Feng
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2024
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  3. The integration of whole-genome resequencing and ecological niche modelling to conserve profiles of local adaptation
    Jong Yoon Jeon, Yucheol Shin, Andrew J Mularo, and 2 more authors
    Diversity and Distributions, 2024
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  4. Code sharing in ecology and evolution increases citation rates but remains uncommon
    Brian Maitner, Paul Efren Santos Andrade, Luna Lei, and 8 more authors
    Ecology and Evolution, 2024
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  5. Potential for spatial coexistence of a transboundary migratory species and wind energy development
    Ta-Ken Huang, Xiao Feng, Jonathan J Derbridge, and 6 more authors
    Scientific Reports, 2024
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  6. Incorporating physiological knowledge into correlative species distribution models minimizes bias introduced by the choice of calibration area
    Zhixin Zhang, Jinxin Zhou, Jorge Garcı́a Molinos, and 7 more authors
    Marine Life Science & Technology, 2024
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  7. Soil amendment mitigates mortality from drought and heat waves in dryland tree juveniles
    Jason P Field, Darin J Law, Orrin B Myers, and 7 more authors
    Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2024
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  8. 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
    Erica A Newman, Xiao Feng, Jesse D Onland, and 6 more authors
    Scientific Reports, 2024
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2023

  1. GridDER: Grid Detection and Evaluation in R
    Xiao Feng, Tainá Rocha, Hanna T Thammavong, and 4 more authors
    Ecological Informatics, 2023
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  2. Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development
    Cory Merow, Brad Boyle, Brian J Enquist, and 8 more authors
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023
  3. The colonial legacy of herbaria
    Daniel S Park, Xiao Feng, Shinobu Akiyama, and 8 more authors
    Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
  4. A test of species’ mobility hypothesis in ecological niche modelling
    Xiao Feng
    Journal of Biogeography, 2023
  5. Influence of model complexity, training collinearity, collinearity shift, predictor novelty and their interactions on ecological forecasting
    Xin Chen, Ye Liang, and Xiao Feng
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2023
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  6. Distance decay and directional diffusion of ecoclimate teleconnections driven by regional-scale tree die-off
    Xiao Feng, Abigail LS Swann, David D Breshears, and 8 more authors
    Environmental Research Letters, 2023
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2022

  1. A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base
    Xiao Feng, Brian J Enquist, Daniel S Park, and 8 more authors
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022
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  2. ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species’ Niches and Distributions
    A Townsend Peterson, Matthew Aiello-Lammens, Giuseppe Amatulli, and 8 more authors
    Biodiversity Informatics, 2022
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  3. Elevated extinction risk of cacti under climate change
    Michiel Pillet, Barbara Goettsch, Cory Merow, and 4 more authors
    Nature plants, 2022
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  4. Artificial Hotspot Occurrence Inventory (AHOI)
    Daniel S Park, Yingying Xie, Hanna T Thammavong, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Biogeography, 2022
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  5. Geographic name resolution service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling
    Bradley L Boyle, Brian S Maitner, George GC Barbosa, and 7 more authors
    Plos one, 2022
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2021

  1. Rainfall pulses mediate long-term plant community compositional dynamics in a semi-arid rangeland
    Maowei Liang, Xiao Feng, and Elise S Gornish
    Journal of Applied Ecology, 2021
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  2. Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves
    David D Breshears, Joseph B Fontaine, Katinka X Ruthrof, and 6 more authors
    New Phytologist, 2021
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  3. How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity
    Xiao Feng, Cory Merow, Zhihua Liu, and 8 more authors
    Nature, 2021
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  4. Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
    Martin Jung, Andy Arnell, Xavier Lamo, and 8 more authors
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021
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  5. Accounting for dispersal using simulated data improves understanding of species abundance patterns
    Xiao Feng and Huijie Qiao
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021
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2020

  1. Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity
    Yaoqi Li, Peter B Reich, Bernhard Schmid, and 8 more authors
    Ecology letters, 2020
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  2. Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life
    Rachael V Gallagher, Daniel S Falster, Brian S Maitner, and 8 more authors
    Nature ecology & evolution, 2020
  3. 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%
    Lee Hannah, Patrick R Roehrdanz, Pablo A Marquet, and 8 more authors
    Ecography, 2020
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  4. Doubling demands in programming skills call for ecoinformatics education
    Xiao Feng, Huijie Qiao, and Brian Enquist
    Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2020
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  5. Darwin’s naturalization conundrum can be explained by spatial scale
    Daniel S Park, Xiao Feng, Brian S Maitner, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
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  6. A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models
    Damaris Zurell, Janet Franklin, Christian König, and 8 more authors
    Ecography, 2020
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  7. Forest management under megadrought: urgent needs at finer scale and higher intensity
    Jason P Field, David D Breshears, John B Bradford, and 3 more authors
    Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
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2019

  1. An evaluation of transferability of ecological niche models
    Huijie Qiao, Xiao Feng, Luis E Escobar, and 4 more authors
    Ecography, 2019
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  2. The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants
    Brian J Enquist, Xiao Feng, Brad Boyle, and 8 more authors
    Science Advances, 2019
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  3. Collinearity in ecological niche modeling: Confusions and challenges
    Xiao Feng, Daniel S. Park, Ye Liang, and 2 more authors
    Ecology and Evolution, 2019
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  4. Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia and its relation to primary productivity
    Zhiheng Wang, Yaoqi Li, Xiangyan Su, and 8 more authors
    Journal of Plant Ecology, 2019
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  5. A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models
    Xiao Feng, Daniel S. Park, Cassondra Walker, and 3 more authors
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019
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  6. Physiology in ecological niche modeling: using zebra mussel’s upper thermal tolerance to refine model predictions through Bayesian analysis
    Xiao Feng, Ye Liang, Belinda Gallardo, and 1 more author
    Ecography, 2019
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2018

  1. Canine and human infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in the New York City metropolitan area
    Brian H Herrin, Melissa J Beall, Xiao Feng, and 2 more authors
    Parasites & vectors, 2018

2017

  1. Climatic similarity of extant and extinct Dasypus armadillos
    Xiao Feng, Teresa Cristina S Anacleto, and Monica Papeş
    Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2017
  2. Physiological limits in an ecological niche modeling framework: A case study of water temperature and salinity constraints of freshwater bivalves invasive in USA
    Xiao Feng and Monica Papeş
    Ecological Modelling, 2017
  3. Hiding in a Cool Climatic Niche in the Tropics? An Assessment of the Ecological Biogeography of Hairy Long-Nosed Armadillos (Dasypus pilosus)
    Xiao Feng, Mariela C Castro, Karen McBee, and 1 more author
    Tropical Conservation Science, 2017
  4. Can land use indicate wetland floristic quality and taxonomic distinctness?
    Suneeti K Jog, Jason T Bried, Xiao Feng, and 3 more authors
    Ecological Indicators, 2017
  5. Armadillo Mapper: A Case Study of an Online Application to Update Estimates of Species’ Potential Distributions
    Xiao Feng, Mariela C Castro, Evan Linde, and 1 more author
    Tropical Conservation Science, 2017
  6. Can incomplete knowledge of species’ physiology facilitate ecological niche modelling? A case study with virtual species
    Xiao Feng and Monica Papeş
    Diversity and Distributions, 2017

2016

  1. Species residency status affects model selection and hypothesis testing in freshwater community ecology
    Jason T Bried, Adam M Siepielski, Daniel Dvorett, and 4 more authors
    Freshwater Biology, 2016

2015

  1. Ecological niche modelling confirms potential north-east range expansion of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the USA
    Xiao Feng and Monica Papeş
    Journal of Biogeography, 2015
  2. Assessment of climatically suitable area for Syrmaticus reevesii under climate change
    Xiao Feng, Congtian Lin, Huijie Qiao, and 1 more author
    Endangered Species Research, 2015