What are the patterns of species' geographic distributions and biodiversity across the globe?
How are humans and climate change reshaping species' geographic distribution and biodiversity?
Do sister species have similar ecological niches and geographic ranges?
species' distribution in the geographic space
ecological niche in the environmental space
How to effectively control the quality of biodiversity data?
How to synthesize the big-data of biodiversity?
How to produce robust range maps for all plants on Earth?
BIENdata.org, a biodiversity database for plant geographic distributions, functional traits, and range maps
How does novel environmental conditions affect model transferability?
What is the effect of collinearity shift on model transfer?
How to improve the reproducibility of ecological models?
How to incorporate physiology in improving model accuracy during model extrapolation?
How to incorporate dispersal in the modeling process?
↗ overestimation of the ecological niche
How does forest die-off impact the ecology and economics in remote areas?
What is the structure and strength of ecoclimate teleconnection?
What are the implications for land management given the network of teleconnections?
↗ networks of tele-connected NEON regions (Lopez-Hoffman et al. in prep)
↗ example of ecoclimate teleconnection: forest die-off in one NEON region (Pacific Southwest) impacts crop production in another NEON region (Prairie Peninsula)