Publications
Brunno F. Oliveira, Romain Bertrand, Malin L. Pinsky, Nicolas Casajus, Barrett W. Wolfee, Brett R. Scheffers, Fabricio Villalobos, Gaël Grenouillet, Gretta T. Pecl, I-Ching Chen, J Alex Baecher, Jake A. Lawlor, Jennifer Sunday, Jérôme Murienne, Jonathan Rolland, Laura M. Thompson, Lesley T. Lancaster, Madeleine A. Rubenstein, Nikki A. Moore, R. M. W. J. Bandara, Sarah E. Diamond, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Jonathan Lenoir, Lise Comte (2026). Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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V a Askshay, J Alex Baecher, Nathan Burkett-Cadena, James T Thorson, Yesenia Sánchez, Yasmin N Tavares, Amely M Bauer, Robert Guralnick, Lindsay P Campbell (2025). Linking hosts, landscapes, and climate to advance zoonotic arbovirus forecasting. Scientific Reports.
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J Alex Baecher, V a Askshay, Robert Guralnick, Amely M Bauer, Yasmin N Tavares, Yesenia Sánchez, James T Thorson, Lindsay P Campbell (2025). Toward ecological forecasting of West Nile virus in Florida: Insights from two decades of sentinel chicken surveillance. Science of the Total Environment.
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Luke J Evans, J Alex Baecher, Brett R Scheffers (2024). Invasion risk posed by the pet trade. As a Research Communication in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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J Alex Baecher (2024). The environmental filtering paradigm and non-filtering community assembly processes. Journal of Biogeography.
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David H Klinges, J Alex Baecher, Jonas J Lembrechts, Ilya M D Maclean, Jonathan Lenoir, Caroline Greiser, Michael Ashcroft, Luke J Evans, Michael R. Kearney, Juha Aalto, Isabel C Barrio, Pieter De Frenne, Joannès Guillemot, Kristoffer Hylander, Tommaso Jucker, Martin Kopecký, Miska Luoto, Martin Macek, Ivan Nijs, Josef Urban, Liesbeth Van Den Brink, Pieter Vangansbeke, Jonathan Von Oppen, Jan Wild, Julia Boike, Rafaella Canessa, Marcelo Nosetto, Alexey Rubtsov, Jhonatan Sallo-Bravo, Brett R Scheffers (2024). Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporalresolution improves ecological predictions. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
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Jake a Lawlor, Lise Comte, Gaël Grenouillet, Jonathan Lenoir, J Alex Baecher, R M W J Bandara, Romain Bertrand, I-Ching Chen, Sarah E Diamond, Lesley T Lancaster, Nikki a Moore, Jerome Murienne, Brunno F Oliveira, Gretta T Pecl, Malin L Pinsky, Jonathan Rolland, Madeleine Rubenstein, Brett R Scheffers, Laura M Thompson, Brit Van Amerom, Fabricio Villalobos, Sarah R Weiskopf, Jennifer Sunday (2024). Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistribution under climate change. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
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Lise Comte, Romain Bertrand, Sarah Diamond, Lesley T Lancaster, Malin L Pinsky, Brett R Scheffers, J Alex Baecher, R M W J Bandara, I-Ching Chen, Jake a Lawlor, Nikki a Moore, Brunno F Oliveira, Jerome Murienne, Jonathan Rolland, Madeleine a Rubenstein, Jennifer Sunday, Laura M Thompson, Fabricio Villalobos, Sarah R Weiskopf, Jonathan Lenoir (2024). Bringing traits back into the equation, A roadmap to understand species redistribution. Global Change Biology.
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J Alex Baecher, Steve a Johnson, Elizabeth a Roznik, Brett R Scheffers (2023). Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community. Journal of Animal Ecology.
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Edmund W Basham, J Alex Baecher, Steve a Johnson, David H Klinges, Brett R Scheffers (2022). Vertical stratification patterns of tropical forest vertebrates. Biological Reviews.
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Edmund W Basham, J Alex Baecher, Brett R Scheffers (2022). Large, old trees define the vertical, horizontal, and seasonal distributions of a poison frog. Oceologia.
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Meredith C Swarthwout, Philip Vogrinc, J Alex Baecher, Chelsea Kross, JD Willson (2020). Prey Size and Feeding Rate Do Not Influence Trophic Morphology of Juvenile Water Snakes (Nerodia sipedon). Herpetologica.
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J Alex Baecher, Emily Jones, Stephen C Richter (2019). Tail bifurcation in two species of Desmognathus salamander (Plethodontidae) in southeastern Kentucky, USA. Herpetological Bulletin.
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Kristin M Hinkson, J Alex Baecher, Sinlan Poo (2019). Cryopreservation and hormonal induction of spermic urine in smooth-sided toads. Cryobiology.
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J Alex Baecher, Stephen C Richter (2018). Environmental gradients in old‐growth Appalachian forest predict fine‐scale distribution, co‐occurrence, and density of woodland salamanders. Ecology and Evolution.
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J Alex Baecher, Philip N Vogrinc, Jacquelyn C Guzy, Chelsea S Kross, JD Willson (2018). Herpetofaunal Communities in Restored and Unrestored Remnant Tallgrass Prairie and Associated Wetlands in Northwest Arkansas, USA. Wetlands.
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J Alex Baecher, Philip N Vogrinc, Jacquelyn C Guzy, Joseph C Neal, JD Willson (2014). Lithobates areolatus (crawfish frog) predation. As a Natural History Note in Herpetological Review.
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