List of works - Cory Merow

30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

scientific article published on 18 April 2022

A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

article

An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season

scientific article published on 06 March 2022

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

scientific article

Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

correction of a scholarly article

Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology

Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development

scientific article published on 27 February 2023

Big data of tree species distributions: how big and how good?

scientific article published in December 2017

Can entropy maximization use functional traits to explain species abundances? A comprehensive evaluation

scientific article

Climate change both facilitates and inhibits invasive plant ranges in New England ⬇️

scientific article

Climate change will drive novel cross-species viral transmission

scientific article published on 25 January 2020

Continental‐scale 1 km hummingbird diversity derived from fusing point records with lateral and elevational expert information

scientific article published on 06 February 2021

Developing dynamic mechanistic species distribution models: predicting bird-mediated spread of invasive plants across northeastern North America

scientific article

Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics?

scientific article

Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

scientific article published on 17 July 2024

ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions

scientific article published on 6 March 2022

Elevated extinction risk of cacti under climate change

scientific article published in April 2022

Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Forest community response to invasive pathogens: the case of ash dieback in a British woodland

article

Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

Geographic Name Resolution Service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling

scientific article published on 25 April 2022

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity

scientific article published on 19 March 2021

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

scholarly article

Improving niche and range estimates with Maxent and point process models by integrating spatially explicit information

article

Inferring forest fate from demographic data: from vital rates to population dynamic models.

scientific article published in March 2018

Integrating occurrence data and expert maps for improved species range predictions

article

Intensifying postfire weather and biological invasion drive species loss in a Mediterranean-type biodiversity hotspot ⬇️

scientific article

More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

scientific article published on 2 January 2024

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: development and validation using sparse data

article

Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

scientific article published in 2019

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

preprint

Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region

scientific article published on 01 May 2021

Processes of community assembly in an environmentally heterogeneous, high biodiversity region

article published in 2016

Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

preprint

Species' range model metadata standards: RMMS

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Speeding up ecological and evolutionary computations in R; essentials of high performance computing for biologists

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Statistical modelling of annual variation for inference on stochastic population dynamics using Integral Projection Models

article

The adaptive challenge of extreme conditions shapes evolutionary diversity of plant assemblages at continental scales

scientific article

The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

scientific article published in 2017

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

scientific article published on 9 August 2019

The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation

scientific article published in 2023

The number of tree species on Earth

scientific article

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Towards Process-based Range Modeling of Many Species.

scientific article

Wallace : A flexible platform for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions built for community expansion

article

What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?

article

occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

List of works by Cory Merow

30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%

A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models

A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology

Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development

Big data of tree species distributions: how big and how good?

Can entropy maximization use functional traits to explain species abundances? A comprehensive evaluation

Climate change both facilitates and inhibits invasive plant ranges in New England ⬇️

Climate change will drive novel cross-species viral transmission

Continental‐scale 1 km hummingbird diversity derived from fusing point records with lateral and elevational expert information

Developing dynamic mechanistic species distribution models: predicting bird-mediated spread of invasive plants across northeastern North America

Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics?

Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions

Elevated extinction risk of cacti under climate change

Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

Forest community response to invasive pathogens: the case of ash dieback in a British woodland

Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate

Geographic Name Resolution Service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

Improving niche and range estimates with Maxent and point process models by integrating spatially explicit information

Inferring forest fate from demographic data: from vital rates to population dynamic models.

Integrating occurrence data and expert maps for improved species range predictions

Intensifying postfire weather and biological invasion drive species loss in a Mediterranean-type biodiversity hotspot ⬇️

More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: development and validation using sparse data

Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region

Processes of community assembly in an environmentally heterogeneous, high biodiversity region

Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

Species' range model metadata standards: RMMS

Speeding up ecological and evolutionary computations in R; essentials of high performance computing for biologists

Statistical modelling of annual variation for inference on stochastic population dynamics using Integral Projection Models

The adaptive challenge of extreme conditions shapes evolutionary diversity of plant assemblages at continental scales

The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation

The number of tree species on Earth

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

Towards Process-based Range Modeling of Many Species.

Wallace : A flexible platform for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions built for community expansion

What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?

occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets

occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data